【每日经济学人】2019-05-14

2019-05-14

Why American police departments are sending social workers to answer 911 calls
Two studies suggest that one in four people shot dead by the police have psychiatric conditions
原文来源：The Economist 2019-5-10

Article

https://frankzhougq.github.io/article/TE-2019-05-14/

Notes

an acute episode of mania
躁狂症

emotionally disturbed people
精神紊乱的

died at the hands of police
死于警察之手

those shot dead by the police
枪击死亡

Robust numbers on what proportion of those shot dead by the police are suffering from a mental illness are hard to come by.

come by sth
1 to manage to get sth 设法得到（或获得）
Jobs are hard to come by these days.
如今找工作很难。
2 to receive sth 收到；得到
How did you come by that scratch on your cheek?
你脸颊上的抓伤是怎么来的？

确切的数字很难获取

severe psychiatric problems
精神问题

One approach that is gaining ground involves getting police officers and social workers to respond to emergency calls together.
正在发展中

Getting these programmes established is a challenge.

Police officers can be clubby and hostile to outsiders.
排外的

Funding for the programme was also patchy, cobbled together from state and federal grants,
零星的；

cobble sth↔to'gether
to produce sth quickly and without great care or effort, so that it can be used but is not perfect 草率匆忙地制作；胡乱拼凑；粗制滥造
The essay was cobbled together from some old notes.
这篇文章是用以前的一些笔记胡乱拼凑而成的。

set aside permanent funding
to keep something, especially money, time, or a particular area, for a special purpose

a cost-benefit analysis is under way
成本收益分析在进行中

opportunities for psychological help are thin on the ground.
机会少用thin来形容