Ernie & Joe: Crisis Cops follows two officers with the San
Antonio Texas Police Department who are diverting people away from
jail and into mental health treatment -- one 911 call at a time. In
the process, they are redefining policing and its mandate to “keep
people safe,” while transforming the ways in which law enforcement
across the U.S. can approach and help those who suffer from mental
illness.
Biography:
Jenifer
McShane is an independent filmmaker committed to using film to
bridge understanding in situations where structural, organizational,
cultural, or religious divisions typically keep people apart. Ernie
& Joe is Jenifer's third feature documentary. She spent
nearly five years visiting the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility to
make her previous documentary, Mothers of Bedford, which
reveals the impact of incarceration on jailed mothers and their
children and aired multiple times on PBS' American ReFramed series.
Jenifer’s first film, A Leap of Faith, which follows a group
of parents in Belfast, Northern Ireland as they open an integrated
school for Catholic and Protestant children was narrated by Liam
Neeson, broadcast on PBS, and screened broadly on European
television.
