Posted on 02/14/2023 4:33:39 PM PST by Libloather
Los Angeles, California city officials announced a new public safety initiative which implements yoga, meditation and healing circles to homeless communities as an alternative form of unarmed policing. The initiative's launch cost the city of Los Angeles $2.2 million in city funding.
At a briefing on Monday, Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez, who chairs the City Council's public safety committee, announced the Project TURN initiative-which stands for Therapeutic Unarmed Response for Neighborhoods. The initiative aims at providing trauma training and services to 100 community intervention workers to tackle retaliatory violence.
"Community-based public safety workers are regularly exposed to high trauma environments and providing comprehensive training and support is an important tenet of how our City will deliver transformative change and strengthen our public safety response and create more equitable investment in a community based public safety model," Rodriguez said on Monday, according to FOX Los Angeles.
Project TURN hopes that therapy, yoga, meditation, and healing circle will reduce the need for officers to engage in the homeless neighborhoods scattered across Los Angeles. The effectiveness of Project TURN will in part be determined by how successful the workers continue to be in deescalating situations, according to Rodriguez.
"That's the whole point, is that we want to avoid the crisis before we're in one," Rodriguez said.
Homelessness has become a pressing issue in Los Angeles as local leaders continue to feel pressure to address the matter amid increasing housing costs.
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What a great idea! Yoga is very calming. It can help with the stress of being robbed or beaten up. Also it can help flexibility and muscle tone so you can heal faster.
The basketball got stolen. š¤·
Hope they don’t forget to include crystal therapy.
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Freeze and assume the lotus position or we will cover you with love.
I would suggest a gun in the hands of cops and honest citizens with the suggestion of, "if you do bad Sh-t, bad Sh-t will happen to you."
I live in the country side miles and many minutes from our county sheriff's officers. In effect I am really on my own. Thus I am armed and adept with such. I wish not to kill a person. I will if he or she is determined to be a threat to I, my family, those I love or innocents.
I am very good with firearms. The first weapon I shot was a 22 Long Rifle. My grandfather helped me hold up the barrel, as I was young. He taught me gun safety also. When I turned 13 he gave me a today old Remington 22 bolt action Nylon Stock rifle. I was allowed to keep it in my bedroom and also with ammo. It was a rite of passage and responsibility and trust earned.
My weapons today are very extensive as I am a collector. I have fired then all with the exception of one. It is a collector "Brooklyn Arms" weapon 32 caliber, with a slide cartridge chamber. I am afraid to fire this old weapon. It was my great grandfathers weapon when he was a cop. Its ballistics sucks.
I wonder why I didn’t think of this.
Da yoots will gang-bang the yoga instructor ...
That’s the article is a false flag cover for future Fentanyl distribution.
Can somebody out there restart, “Bumfights”? That should help the homeless find something to fill their time.
Yogurt laced with Fentynal would solve the problem faster.
“Yogurt laced with Fentynal”
If I had a choice, I’d go with the Fentanyl.
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