Even though the good people of CAHOOTS (Crisis Assistance Helping Out On The Streets), - a mobile crisis unit from Whitebird in Eugene - cannot attend to every person who's experiencing a mental health crisis, they certainly are effective when the police call them in. I just wonder how they diffuse a problem, such as when someone is the threatening suicide or other self-harm. Can the police learn something from CAHOOTS' personnel? I recognize that this particular situation was beyond diffusion by talking to the distraught man.