originally started with a bunch of other community organizations after a young man by the name of adrian stalley was shot by the police and he had a little pen knife in his hand and working with his mother and others in the community about moving this situation away from command and control situation. we were talking about folks in psychiatric disabilities but this also applies to folks who are hearing impaired or deaf or folks who don't speak the language of the officers. you can put it in a number of different situations, but we are really focused on people in psychiatric crisis. the idea moving when a person doesn't understand a command. the police are trained to increase their level of force and to go from level to level to force and to flip that script and have them instead use verbal deescalation techniques. while we were working on this and trying to figure out what to do, we realized that in memphis tennessee there was a model that at that point was very freshly developed and very similar to what we were talking about. we got lewd of ideas from them. the initial training which supervisor