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Originally Posted by Crown Royal
I have a great deal of respect for the good cops that are out there, my life was saved by two of them. But you also have to realize that moving that money into other areas will ease their burden too, because they are asked to do several things that they aren't trained for. That money could be used to train social workers to go with police for things like welfare checks. I agree wholeheartedly about deescalation training, it is something that is desperately needed, using their gun should always be a last resort.
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Does anyone really think this defund concept will bring the fruit that is being sold? I am very skeptical.
Social workers responding at all hours to welfare checks, domestics, and erratic behavior seems like a impossibility. We can't even fully staff emergency rooms in the evening hours. And this isn't a funding issue, its a way of life for the current generation of professional who would rather work 9-5 for less pay than midnight shifts. This is a real problem in our healthcare system and now we think it's possible to get countless trained counselors to respond to potentially violent situations?
I am all for a change to policing and the way they are trained but I just don't see this exact idea working.
I'm in Germany right now and they seem to have a much better system where it takes over 2 years to be trained and become a police officer. People here are just appalled by what's going on in the US right now, they can't even wrap their head around why people can wander the streets with guns and cops constantly shoot people. The police seem to have a very different way of reacting to situations here, deescalating rather than going in heavy and trying to get out as quickly as possible.