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Originally Posted by douglas1999
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How about this: Give the police *more* funding so that they can hire social workers. Social workers are already a thing, they are dispatched to situations that call for their expertise. What people have been proposing, which is completely idiotic, is that social workers be dispatched to situations where there is an imminent lethal threat. Cops already perform the role of social worker in many situations, for example when they talk jumpers off the ledges of buildings all the time.
Suggesting that a social worker should be called in when somebody like george floyd, who had an extensive violent criminal history (he robbed a pregnant woman at gunpoint, among other things) and had been in prison fourteen times, which the cops *are aware of* as soon as they ID him and look up his priors, is insane. Or somebody like jacob blake, or that dude waving a knife around, or literally any of the other people that have inspired rioting this year. This is what armed police are for.. It's super easy to criticize them after the fact when it wasn't you whose life was in danger.
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1. youd be suprised to find out that defunding the police means refunding, but optics are hard because this is a day and age of all or nothing headline idiology.
2. no wrong about floyd, he is not violent, the video clearly shows he is in a state of panic, a social worker would have had him sit his ass down in the back of that police car in less time than it took to strangle him to death.
3. Why do we act like crisis negotiation is some how non existant to people who are appolgists for bad police work, libertarians agree, we need to defund things like the war on drugs and the sale of military equipment to the police.
If any of you out there think that there are no such thing as lawman that become lawman because they wanted to be a legal gunman then you need to stop pretending you're on the cowboys side, because you aint no cowboy at all.