What is the history of crisis hotlines? What impact does police involvement have on the person perceived to be in distress? In this episode we continue to explore Cassidy’s story and speak to Hannah Zeavin and Jamie Livingston to try and better understand how these systems evolved and how they could be different.

Hannah Zeavin:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/distance-cure

https://slate.com/technology/2022/04/crisis-lifelines-surveillance-geolocation-algorithms.html 

http://somatosphere.net/2020/the-third-choice-suicide-hotlines-psychiatry-and-the-police.html/

Jamie Livingston:

https://justmentalhealth.ca/

Episode transcript: sensiblenonsense.squarespace.com/committables2-transcripts/2022/8/30/s2-episode-2-precisely-no

This episode of Committable was produced by Michelle Stockman, Cassidy Wilson, Jim McQuaid and Jesse Mangan.

https://sensiblenonsense.squarespace.com/committable

All music is from the song Reasonable by Christopher G. Brown.

https://christophergbrown.bandcamp.com/track/reasonable