Posted on 12/04/2019 5:30:48 PM PST by BenLurkin
"The majority of pathogens that come into an environment come in from the soles of shoes, and then they atomize, they get up in the air, they land on desks, and that's where our officers are being contaminated," Harris said.
NBC4's I-Team reported in 2018 and 2019 a number of LAPD officers and city workers reported they'd been exposed to infectious diseases, including typhus, salmonella, and MRSA. Most of the reports were made at the Central Area police station in downtown LA.
In March 2019 one officer contracted salmonella typhi, the bacteria that causes typhoid fever. A second officer then reported that they had contracted typhus, a disease carried by infected fleas that travel on rats.
The LAPD's budget proposal also includes new money to install hand washing stations in booking and report writing areas of police stations, so officers can immediately wash their hands after touching an arrestee or their personal property.
The department also plans to ask for funding to replace old carpet inside police stations and to remove overgrown landscaping in order to remove burrowing areas for rats and mice.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbclosangeles.com ...
Not one Federal penny!
Let them suffer the consequences of their own policies. Sanctuary this!
If only we could solve the homeless problem, rather than having to treat symptoms of the problems such as what’s mentioned here, everyone would be better off.
That was my thought also. Install a hand wash sink and some sort of shallow basin on/in the floor that the officer can stand in press a button and have it fill up, say a 1/4”, with a sanitizer solution to clean the sole of the shoes off then press a button to drain and rinse for the next person.
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