I have an indescribable respect for the cops on reddit trying to explain, warmly and diplomatically, that domestic violence calls are actually very dangerous situations
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The idea that unarmed social workers are equipped to intervene with people who are quite often armed and sometimes do kill each other, their children and/or themselves is insane. Insane. And it's hitting the mainstream. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/05/30/opinion/george-floyd-police-funding.amp.html …pic.twitter.com/GOqgsokn2I
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I think you might be missing the forest for the trees. Yes, there might be some issues with a policy that never sends anything like a cop to any domestic dispute, but such theoretical problems are minor compared to the massive and real problems we have now.
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The solution might be as simple as letting social workers request police escorts, and training those officers to follow the lead of the expert they're protecting.
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Maybe the general population can begin to understand what the modern workday is for police officers, why many of them suffer from PTSD, and why the police suicide rate is abnormally high. These are heroes some are trying to turn to villains.
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It shows an insane level of naiveté. I'm not against specialization but the protection is necessary.
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There are something like 500k police calls to Oakland a year. In both SF and Oakland, there's already a helplessness around low level crimes. Unless that's part of a solution, defunding police will only create a vacuum for law&order politicians, which doesn't seem like the goal.
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They’ve clearly then never dealt with a drunk combative person, someone holding a weapon out of sight or to themselves, nor dealt with the occasional paranoid schizophrenic off their medication who also decided to get high and run around naked threatening to/attacking ppl
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Counterpoint: i lived recently with a paranoid schizophrenic who became distraught. He begged me not to call 911 on him. I had to honor his wishes because I feared the cops. Does introducing another gun into a dispute truly deescalate?
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Yes. It's a bit crazy.
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But is it more insane than the idea that people trained in law enforcement are equipped to deal with people having mental breakdowns, addicts, and people just struggling to cope? Maybe, just maybe, a more diverse approach is called for.
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