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Judge Steven Leifman

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252 total appearances

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Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Judge Liefman: Breaking the Cycle of Autism and Mental Illness in Criminal Justice

All the chief justices of all the state Supreme Courts in the United States and all their court administrators. And they have made mental illness their primary issue for the last four or five years. They are having summits now. We have tours to Miami quite regularly. They come here. They learn about how to restructure their community.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Judge Liefman: Breaking the Cycle of Autism and Mental Illness in Criminal Justice

All the chief justices of all the state Supreme Courts in the United States and all their court administrators. And they have made mental illness their primary issue for the last four or five years. They are having summits now. We have tours to Miami quite regularly. They come here. They learn about how to restructure their community.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Judge Liefman: Breaking the Cycle of Autism and Mental Illness in Criminal Justice

All the chief justices of all the state Supreme Courts in the United States and all their court administrators. And they have made mental illness their primary issue for the last four or five years. They are having summits now. We have tours to Miami quite regularly. They come here. They learn about how to restructure their community.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Judge Liefman: Breaking the Cycle of Autism and Mental Illness in Criminal Justice

They're going back and starting to put together plans on how to do what we've done because we've been able to reduce the arrests in Miami as a result of our project from 118,000 a year to 53,000. Our jail audit went from 7,400 to 4,400. We closed one of our three main jails at an actual savings, not cost shift, of about $168 million so far.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Judge Liefman: Breaking the Cycle of Autism and Mental Illness in Criminal Justice

They're going back and starting to put together plans on how to do what we've done because we've been able to reduce the arrests in Miami as a result of our project from 118,000 a year to 53,000. Our jail audit went from 7,400 to 4,400. We closed one of our three main jails at an actual savings, not cost shift, of about $168 million so far.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Judge Liefman: Breaking the Cycle of Autism and Mental Illness in Criminal Justice

They're going back and starting to put together plans on how to do what we've done because we've been able to reduce the arrests in Miami as a result of our project from 118,000 a year to 53,000. Our jail audit went from 7,400 to 4,400. We closed one of our three main jails at an actual savings, not cost shift, of about $168 million so far.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Judge Liefman: Breaking the Cycle of Autism and Mental Illness in Criminal Justice

And one of the things that we hadn't anticipated, our police shootings have almost stopped here. And while it's possible that race certainly can play a role in a police shooting, it turns out that the reality may be that many of the police shootings have as much to do with PTSD among law enforcement as anything. They overreact because they get scared.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Judge Liefman: Breaking the Cycle of Autism and Mental Illness in Criminal Justice

And one of the things that we hadn't anticipated, our police shootings have almost stopped here. And while it's possible that race certainly can play a role in a police shooting, it turns out that the reality may be that many of the police shootings have as much to do with PTSD among law enforcement as anything. They overreact because they get scared.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Judge Liefman: Breaking the Cycle of Autism and Mental Illness in Criminal Justice

And one of the things that we hadn't anticipated, our police shootings have almost stopped here. And while it's possible that race certainly can play a role in a police shooting, it turns out that the reality may be that many of the police shootings have as much to do with PTSD among law enforcement as anything. They overreact because they get scared.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Judge Liefman: Breaking the Cycle of Autism and Mental Illness in Criminal Justice

The woman that runs my training program for law enforcement, we call it CIT, Crisis Intervention Team Policing, she gets between 150 and 250 calls a month from police officers for their own personal mental health issues. It's tragic, but last year, more officers died from suicide than in the line of duty. We set up a program to help get them treated when they're having issues.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Judge Liefman: Breaking the Cycle of Autism and Mental Illness in Criminal Justice

The woman that runs my training program for law enforcement, we call it CIT, Crisis Intervention Team Policing, she gets between 150 and 250 calls a month from police officers for their own personal mental health issues. It's tragic, but last year, more officers died from suicide than in the line of duty. We set up a program to help get them treated when they're having issues.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Judge Liefman: Breaking the Cycle of Autism and Mental Illness in Criminal Justice

The woman that runs my training program for law enforcement, we call it CIT, Crisis Intervention Team Policing, she gets between 150 and 250 calls a month from police officers for their own personal mental health issues. It's tragic, but last year, more officers died from suicide than in the line of duty. We set up a program to help get them treated when they're having issues.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Judge Liefman: Breaking the Cycle of Autism and Mental Illness in Criminal Justice

And it has helped amazing, and they've become incredibly empathetic. And then as for the prosecutors, our own prosecutor has become a huge advocate because she's learned that if you want to really improve public safety, we have two choices. We can release this population without treatment or we can release them with treatment. You know what happens when we release them without.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Judge Liefman: Breaking the Cycle of Autism and Mental Illness in Criminal Justice

And it has helped amazing, and they've become incredibly empathetic. And then as for the prosecutors, our own prosecutor has become a huge advocate because she's learned that if you want to really improve public safety, we have two choices. We can release this population without treatment or we can release them with treatment. You know what happens when we release them without.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Judge Liefman: Breaking the Cycle of Autism and Mental Illness in Criminal Justice

And it has helped amazing, and they've become incredibly empathetic. And then as for the prosecutors, our own prosecutor has become a huge advocate because she's learned that if you want to really improve public safety, we have two choices. We can release this population without treatment or we can release them with treatment. You know what happens when we release them without.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Judge Liefman: Breaking the Cycle of Autism and Mental Illness in Criminal Justice

We might as well do it the right way, get people what they need. Recovery is real. Many mental illnesses have better recovery rates than heart disease and diabetes. It's really just about making sure there's access, competent and quality care for this population.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Judge Liefman: Breaking the Cycle of Autism and Mental Illness in Criminal Justice

We might as well do it the right way, get people what they need. Recovery is real. Many mental illnesses have better recovery rates than heart disease and diabetes. It's really just about making sure there's access, competent and quality care for this population.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Judge Liefman: Breaking the Cycle of Autism and Mental Illness in Criminal Justice

We might as well do it the right way, get people what they need. Recovery is real. Many mental illnesses have better recovery rates than heart disease and diabetes. It's really just about making sure there's access, competent and quality care for this population.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Judge Liefman: Breaking the Cycle of Autism and Mental Illness in Criminal Justice

And that's one of the things that we're doing with the Conference of Chief Justices. So they started off by having four or five regional summits around the United States where all the chiefs came. And then it worked so well, most of them are having statewide regional conferences. And then it's breaking down specific areas in their states.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Judge Liefman: Breaking the Cycle of Autism and Mental Illness in Criminal Justice

And that's one of the things that we're doing with the Conference of Chief Justices. So they started off by having four or five regional summits around the United States where all the chiefs came. And then it worked so well, most of them are having statewide regional conferences. And then it's breaking down specific areas in their states.