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Originally Posted by New Era
That's exactly the issue here. Mental Health Services have seen their budgets crippled over the past three decades and as a result the police has to handle calls for service that traditionally went to a different agency. If this woman had the option she could have called appropriate Mental Health Services that had trained people who would recognize someone on the spectrum and be equipped to handle the problem. Instead she was forced to call 911 and had police dispatched who had not idea what to do, did not recognize the situation, and had no training in how to handle the child in question. This never would have happened if the appropriate agency was funded properly.
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Yeah I really can't agree with that.
Literally any two not-crazy adults should and would have handled that better.
If the mother had called her neighbor for help and that neighbor shot the kid, no one would defend that neighbor for one second. It wasn't even that these cops didn't know what they were getting into, so that's not even an excuse.
Yeah there should be trained mental health professionals on call for situations like this, but unfortunately almost no country has that. Cops have to deal with this stuff in a lot of places. Elsewhere it's just a given that you never shoot the children you're supposed to be helping.