While we envision a future where behavioral health professionals exclusively respond to crisis events in the community, in many communities, police are mostly responsible for leading this work. Keeping people out of the system whenever possible requires, at minimum, police have alternatives to arrest and other places to take people other than jail. This project considers how police-led deflection from jail and to local Crisis Stabilization Units (CSUs), which provide short-term care to people in crisis, can improve individual’s access to treatment and reduce jail stays. This project also investigates when, why, and for whom police most often use their power to deflect individuals to these community-based alternatives to arrest.