Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

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

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.

It shows an insane level of naiveté. I'm not against specialization but the protection is necessary.

arm social workers

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.

Yes. It's a bit crazy.

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.