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but the question remains: why is police the answer if high levels of policing does not correlate with low levels of homicide rate?
I guess I got confused when you popped into the gun violence thread with a crack about sending social workers on police calls. Sorry to mix up your different sarcasms.The proposition was that it would be easeier to train social workers to be cops than vice versa. Read the thread. I don't think you'd have a lot of social workers signing up for actual police training. You apparently don't understand what a strawman is versus discussing the actual point.
I'm fine with sending social workers to social worker type calls.
But that doesn't mean that social workers want to be trained to handle instances of extreme physical violence at risk to their own person more easily than police officers can be trained to handle domestic disputes.
Right now there are thousands of cops actively handling all of the stuff that we've been told social workers are better equipped to handle, without incident. In some cases they've actually been trained to do it through de-escalation tactics, or they figured it out on their own.
Did you read the article you absolute turd? Extreme physical violence is not a situation social workers are being asked to cover here.
St. Louis is a failed city. Plain and simple.
Well I thought we were discussing training social workers as police officers.
St. Louis is a failed city. Plain and simple.
Point of information: St. Louis has had Democrat as its mayor continuously since 1949.
Sounds like the defund the police movement is certainly having the effect of reducing the police force by getting them to quit en masse. What happens if we decide to reverse course and decide we need more cops if say violent crime spikes over the next few years and we're unable to hire them back?
I understand people that are skeptical of abolition as a concept. But I wish that those people would bring the same energy and skepticism to questioning reform and the fact that reform has got us to where we are now.
How about actually updating police training? The victim's families keep asking for it, but I don't think it ever happens. Police cadets are terrorized in their training to be trigger-happy else they'll die ("better tried by 12 than carried out by 6" is one of their sayings). Police work is indeed dangerous, but the danger is overstated in their training. It is #22 in most dangerous jobs. Europe trains their police force A LOT more than the US. What is their training? Seems police training could be updated to include the social work elements that apply, and perhaps other things as well. The headline I want to read is City Updates Police Training for All Current/New LEO.