good luck with putting the dogs on a leash.
cops (some of them, especially) have a habit of retaliating in a number of ways, none of them pleasant.
How embarrassing that it’s come to this; “Keep your policemen away from our nurses!”
It will be a while before a more workable trust is reestablished, if ever.
Ping
That policy will change the first time a patient in the treatment area assaults a nurse.
I predict less than one year.
Roughly 4 months ago I had a parolee OD. While I was waiting in the hallway to see if she would die or not the charge nurse approached me and asked if I would leave the area “because I made her staff nervous.”
I was speechless. I was literally just standing there quietly.
A very bad mistake by the officer and officers involved.
However, this, too, represents an over-reaction by the hospital’s Administration. More thinking and less emoting = better decision making by all.
This is not wise. better to insist the cops involved be punished, THEN, if that doesn’t happen you take this step.
Why overreact when you can knee-jerk overreact?
Why did that nurse have to make a big scene and get all hysterical about being detained? Would have been the same result. Females always do that hysteria crap when they’re in a tight spot.
Interesting case.
I read some of the comments on the WaPo website. Way over the top cop haters, most of whom immediately link all abuses by any police to Donald Trump, the great dictator. Screw the WaPo, and the cop haters. There are always going to be bad people in any profession. At least something is being done about this one.
The solution is to skip the hospital and provide care in the jail
I work in an OR that treats a lot of gang shooting victims. We have cops in the OR to guard against some gang punk coming in to finish the job.
The hospital needs to sue the cops for every dollar they can and file a restraining order against the offend cop.
Until the taxpayers feel serious pain they will continue to elect corrupt officials that don’t hold their cops accountable.