The Evidence-to-Impact Podcast · The Social Science Research Institute
Episode 25 Part 1: Bridging the Gap: Community Policing's Role in Recovery and Crime Reduction
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Captain Ballas details the Madison police protocol to not arrest, but divert people with addiction into voluntary clinical assessment.
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Community policing here is all process: outreach, buy-in, and a referral program that keeps evolving.
This episode stays close to the work behind Madison's MARI program: how it grew over 10 years from MARI 1.0 to MARI 3.0, and how recovery and crime reduction get turned into a referral process.
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You want Madison's MARI story told as a working blueprint, not a slogan.
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