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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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No... when you "defund" the police there isn't a police officer "waiting outside" for you. The money that paid for that police officer is now funding you... alone... to go in and diffuse the situation. And the social worker isn't going in to do public health (like you did many years ago), they are going in to deal with a domestic dispute. It's not really the same...