![The logo of the Trauma and Mental Health Report Podcast: A brain with a microphone close to it](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2020/04/article-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Trauma Report writer Sharon Bae speaks with Carleigh Sailon, program manager of the Criminal Justice Services at the Mental Health Centre of Denver, who helped…
![Yellow police jackets lined up and hanging on a clothing rack.](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2021/08/maxim-hopman-MupyXf276pk-unsplash-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Conversations about police accountability, racial justice, and calls to ‘defund the police’ resurfaced in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd by police officer…
![For Offenders with Mental Illnesses, Jail Diversion Programs Give a Second Chance](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif?x81652)
On February 8, 2015, Natasha McKenna—a 37-year-old offender who suffered from mental illness—died following an incident in which she was tasered four times by law…
![Rape Victims' Reactions Misunderstood by Law Enforcement](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2017/04/CM-_-Feature-1-_Let-me-go-wv2-800x675-470x140.jpg?x81652)
In 2008, 18-year-old Marie reported being raped at knifepoint in her apartment. Confronted by the police with allegations that she was lying, she conceded under…
![PTSD a Reality for Urban Youth](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2017/01/24748139382_f6f6dfc4f0_z-470x140.jpg?x81652)
In this emotionally evocative spoken-word poem, Terisa Siagatonu draws parallels between youth facing urban street violence and soldiers experiencing combat. Both, Siagatonu claims, are at…
![When Sexual Assault Victims Don’t “Resist”](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2015/11/Feature1-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Lara Mcleod was just 19 when she was reportedly raped by Joaquin Rams, the fiancée of her elder sister. At the time Lara stated that…
![Officers with PTSD at Greater Risk for Police Brutality](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2014/11/Nick-Police-Brutality-PTSD-Feature-2-470x140.jpg?x81652)
After dropping off a colleague on September 14, 2013, Jonathan Ferrell began his journey home. That night, the North Carolina highway proved more treacherous than…
![Police Expected to Make Split Second Decisions](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2013/10/POLICE-470x140.jpg?x81652)
CBC News investigates police officers’ life-and-death decisions. Video: http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/TV+Shows/The+National/ID/2412830917/
![Toughing it Out: Posttraumatic Stress in Police Officers](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2013/01/funeral-470x140.jpg?x81652)
“Imagine the most horrific things that happen in this city that no one really hears about or sees. Homicides, rapes, car accidents, violent assaults, this…