Posted on 09/18/2020 1:46:11 PM PDT by matt04
Agroup of social workers, mental health professionals and concerned community members met outside Buffalo City Hall Thursday to denounce Mayor Byron W. Brown's proposal for a new police unit that would pair officers with social workers on mental health emergency calls.
Brown first outlined plans for a behavioral health team Aug. 22.
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The mayor noted that mental health professionals routinely request assistance from the Buffalo Police when they receive a call for service in a situation that involves a person experiencing a mental health crisis, and said such a joint approach to assisting people in distress was endorsed by the National Association of Social Workers in an op-ed the organization had published in the Wall Street Journal June 15.
Tia Bowman, a social worker with Agents of Change, said at the news conference that the training and education of social workers is grounded in an entirely different ideology from that of police officers.
“The primary mission of the social work profession is to enhance human well-being," Bowman said.
“Social workers do not de-escalate with tools used by police enforcement, such as guns, pepper spray and spit bags. Social workers are trained to de-escalate with the most powerful tools, empathy, compassion and connection,” Bowman said.
Danielle Johnson, co-chairwoman of the Buffalo Police Advisory Board, said it would problematic to have social workers working alongside police officers during mental health crises without more in-depth and robust accountability from the police department.
“To propose to place social workers within a system that lacks sound, equitable accountability – especially within the Buffalo Police Department – is irresponsible, and it’s putting the folks who are being responded to at risk, as well as the social workers who are responding,” Johnson said.
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If your words ans compassion are so great at deescalating situations, then you will have no need for the officer who can stand by a ways a way and watch, right?
I'm sure the naked 250 lb guy high as a kite on PCP wiht a knife will listen to your compassion as they connect said knife with you.
What, they don’t want a chance to eat a bullet or become
a pin cushion for a meat cleaver.
Who could have seen this coming?
Kind of shatters that old myth that Social Workers could
handle these folks so much better than the police do.
The pros have spoken.
Maybe they can pair up the Social Workers with a Domestic Violence Intervener partner.
This social worker needs to find a different vocation.
Sounds like a believer in “the pen is mightier than the sword.”
They probably also don’t want to be forced to respond within 3-5 business days. Much less within an hour.
The mayor also said the social workers have a history of calling the police when things go south on their cases. Strange they never mentioned that.
Walmart/McDonalds fights on youtube r more fun to watch. Those Amish are vicious.
here’s a working link:
Well, according to her, all they need is better accountability (whatever the hell that means) and those social workers would solve all the problems ever!
Wait, you mean I can’t work M-F 9-5 and get holidays and weekends off to party with my friends? I would have to go out in the pouring rain, snow, etc. at 2am. Can;t you just like, detain them, make sure they are unarmed and I’ll meet them at the jail Monday Morning.
Kommissar follow cops. Basically we all are in CPS custody now.
Some police violence and intrusion reform, not.
What will they do when thugs stabb the social worker? Run away to prevent riots?
I have no sympathy for all of those democrat voting antifa supporting social workers.
JoMa
social workers don’t think they’re getting paid enough to risk getting their asses shot off ...
They are going to get cops killed, or they are going to cover up better abuse.
Social workers do not like being found with their hands in the cookie jar.
“Social workers are trained to de-escalate with the most powerful tools, empathy, compassion and connection,” Bowman said.”
These people are not ignorant, they’re just plain stupid......and Naivly stupid at that.
LOL, yeah strange alright... heh heh heh...
Yes. Shrinks and social workers are pretty brave when it comes to sending the police to involuntarily commit people or steal their children. Not so much bravery when they actually have to show up themselves.
Well, that and a ton of BS. In fact, mostly just BS.
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