Developed over 30 years ago, the Crisis Intervention Team model is arguably the most well-known approach to improve police response to individuals experiencing mental health crisis. In this article, we comment on Rogers and colleagues' review (in this issue) of the CIT research base and elaborate on the current state of the evidence. We argue that CIT can be considered evidence based for officer level outcomes and call level dispositions. We then discuss the challenges that currently make it difficult to draw conclusions related to arrest, use of force, and injury related outcomes. More research, including a randomized, controlled trial is clearly needed. But we caution against focusing narrowly on the training component of the model, as CIT is more than training. We encourage research that explores and tests the potential of CIT partnerships to develop effective strategies that improve the mental health system's ability to provide crisis response and thus reduce reliance on law enforcement to address this need.

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危机干预团队的研究告诉我们什么，我们需要问什么。

危机干预小组模型是30多年前开发的，可以说是提高警察对经历心理健康危机的个人的反应的最著名方法。在本文中，我们对Rogers及其同事对CIT研究基础的评论（本期）进行评论，并详细说明证据的当前状态。我们认为，可以将CIT视为基于官员级别结果和呼叫级别处置的证据。然后，我们讨论了目前难以得出与逮捕，使用武力和伤害相关的结果有关的结论的挑战。显然需要更多的研究，包括随机对照试验。但是，我们警告不要将注意力集中在模型的培训部分上，因为CIT不仅仅是培训。