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Originally Posted by Carl in Tampa
I love you, Kitty, but give me a break. Deputies "lack credentials?" I have successfully talked people out of jumping off of bridges, and convinced others to put down the guns they were about to shoot themselves with. I even once disarmed and Baker acted a fellow deputy who was in uniform, taking his Service pistol. Experience can be a pretty good credential. What you may not remember about the process when deputies Baker Act people is that the in-processing at the confinement facility includes an assessment by a professional "with credentials." The confinement is not on the word of the deputy only.
Don't sell the deputies short.
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I love you too Carl and happy New Year. I spent a year assessing schizophrenics, then went to work at a college where the licensed mental health counselors did not know to ask such things as:
"Do you get messages over the radio?"
"Do you have a mission from God?"
"Do you hear people talking to you that others can't hear?"
In my opinion, even such credentialed professionals as. these do not have the experience to assess danger to others.
i wonder if most deputies know the average age of onset for schizophrenia or what questions a psychiatrist would ask to diagnose schizophrenia? .if not, then yes, they lack credentials to diagnose danger, largely due to the fact that a paranoiac is not going to fall for direct questions about their intent to harm because they think YOU are the one who has the intent to harm.