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Originally Posted by newgirl
I disagree !!! Totally disagree and if this happens it will take a bit but in the long run our country will be safer in areas that they do send the right professional for the job.
Would you want a cop to do surgery on you? Then why do you expect them to correctly do other jobs that they were not trained to handle?
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They ARE trained to do the job. Have you never heard of a COP delivering a baby? Have you never heard of a COP giving CPR and bringing someone back from dead? You do not know about all the domestics that they deal with every day/night. Why? Because those domestics were taken care of without a violent incident. COPs don't just fight. Most do not wish to fight, period. Most want to go home to their families without injury or injuring anyone else. It is not the macho image that many of the uninformed/ignorant citizens imagine them to be.
One scumbag getting killed may not be a great thing IF there was a mistake made. But, it would be worse if a decent person got killed, right? Don't judge a million cops by the actions of less than a half percent of questionable incidents.
I will guarantee one thing that will happen with social workers responding to domestics. A person that is angry will hesitate striking a COP more than he will hesitate striking a social worker. A person can have one bad day in a year, get drunk and lose control and become unruly. He can be Joe Citizen the other 364 days a year, but just have one day and totally lose control. That same person might even kill someone because he was not handled properly. I wonder what will happen the first time such an incident happens and the family sues because they called the police and got a social worker, and a family member or social worker was killed due to one bad day.