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Originally Posted by allsport
Until you try it, do not criticize it. Nurses do it every day without the assistance of the police. What needs to be done is to send these people with specialized easily seen identification, with police waiting outside giving the specialized non violent interventionists the opportunity to stop the crisis. Guns blazing fixes nothing and using people from their own community to be trained in the interventions would stop those concerns. As a student nurse, I was sent into the worst neighborhoods, alone, to do public health nursing. I carried a black bag which was my ticket into the neighborhood and I never had any problems and that was the fire bombing sixties.
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You are talking about over 50 years ago. Things are totally different today. For one thing, there are a lot more people with guns. And, there is a lot more disrespect for any type of authority. I know people used drugs in the sixties, but I think the drug problem is even worse today. Apples and oranges.