Posted on 09/18/2020 1:46:11 PM PDT by matt04
Fine. I propose instead that social workers from Agents of Change be sent in alone, and the cop can wait outside with the coroner to clean up the mess later.
Let them eat Social Workers!
I think that everyone has a poor attitude concerning this. Hiring large numbers of these people and having them physically overwhelm a shooter or attacker would solve a large number of problems.
Oh, now we get to the meat (or color) of the matter:
Nancy J. Smyth, dean of the School of Social Work at the University at Buffalo, acknowledged the institution of social work is not entirely pristine in its endeavors, noting that, like the police, social work has a long legacy of racism and of supporting white supremacy.
“And, by white supremacy, I’m not talking about white supremacists. I’m talking about a structure of society and policies that puts white people in power and keeps others out,” Smyth said. “This isn’t about bad people. It’s about bad systems that need to be restructured.”
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Sounds like no one can help these people! Just let them run amok??
Ah, here’s the solution:
Members of Agents of Change called for the creation of a mobile emergency first responder system to respond to mental health calls. The group also advised the implementation of a Behavioral Health Advisory Council to determine how best to meet the community’s mental health crisis needs without the intervention of police officers, and called for the city to provide more funding for crisis prevention and intervention by redistributing funds from the police department.
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Looks like throwing more money and lip service will do the trick!
Rochester, NY has proposed the same thing and it's already active (last I heard). dumb a** Mayor not so lovely Warren is scum.
Seems like the Social Workers are smarter than I would have given them credit as generally ultra-liberals.
"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." yeah, written by RATS wi no skin in the game! the dumbasses should go in FIRST... and when they come running out screaming for their lives(if they get that chance), THEN the cops get their shot at it!!!
But a Hug goes a long way. /s
“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.
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This incorrect and bigoted. I am in LE. We do yearly required day long trainings with tests to implement and train on de-escalation trchniques that have nothing to do with use of force. We do week long trainings yearly that focus solely on communication using compassion in stressful situations.
Bowman is a terrible and ignorant person.
As an aside, I dare Bowman to wear a bodycam all day and do his job.
Rash of social worker resignations and retirements within the 1st month of this new program.
Your are right about throwing more money at it, as long is it fits their world view.
Nancy admits her profession was built on systemic racism and is so to this day, but if you give us some money we will solve it, trust us. However these same people say defend the police as they are racist and you cant fix them. Don’t you even dare suggest more funding to have more officers, more training, etc.
Although we had whack jobs in the prison system, I got paid far more to restrain convicts than I did psych patients. At least you could use cuffs in the prison. And in the prison, civilian staff did not restrain inmates...only officers were allowed to do that.
Bernie’s plan states there are too many police on the streets these days. They can claim they’re not defunding the police, but if you plan on cutting police presence on the streets, then you won’t need as many officers as before, which means you are defunding the police. Bernie’s plan also calls for social workers, psychologists, EMT’s to respond instead of police. These people didn’t sign up for that, and aren’t going to be too happy if they are ordered to be first on the scene of an emergency call. Most of them have never had to restrain someone, because it’s not part of their regular job duties. If I was a police officer, I wouldn’t trust any of them to have my back.
If the crazies shoot Police, what do you think they will do to Social workers?
In theory it is a great idea, skip the police, just send social workers. They sign up for it, so they deserve what they get, right (that’s what they say about police).
But the problem is, when you send a social worker to talk nicely to the guy with a gun, it’s not just the social worker who ends up dead, it is the woman who called the police to come rescue her.
For the most part social workers are a fraud on society. Most are more dysfunctional than their clients. What a pathetic scam on the vulnerable and on the taxpayer..
Good let them go in on their own, call the cops when its time to chalk line you
I heard a sound recording of a vicious, horrible criminal refusing to give up to the police, saying he has rights being violated, don't threaten him with tazing and finally the description was that this was from the body cam of the police sgt. who was killed. He was too patient with the creep.
So send a social worker when the cops can't handle them.
Maybe they could add a 3rd person into the mix....a news reporter. If he had a first-hand view of the situation, then maybe they could get the story right the first time.
Tia is an ass.
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