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ANN ARBOR, MI — Ann Arbor officials have laid out a proposal for an unarmed public safety response program to have non-police professionals respond to certain 911 calls.

If the resolution is approved, Crawford would be tasked with exploring opportunities for unarmed responses to calls through Metro 911, possibly forming partnerships with community service providers and identifying which responses now handled by armed police could be carried out by experts in areas such as mental health, public health and human services…