Harris Co. Commissioners say HART program is 'abysmal failure'

The non-law enforcement contract aid-givers who were supposed to ease burden on deputies by de-escalating people in mental health crisis. Taxpayers paid more than $6 million total, at roughly $836 per call. And yet, only 4 percent of HART citizen encounters involved mental health. Nearly half of the calls were initiated by HART without an actual dispatch from authorities.