• BeautifulMind ♾️@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I’m gonna go with: don’t send cops on welfare checks. Send somebody competent to respond to mental health challenges, preferably someone not wearing a police uniform (after all, at this point a lot of folks think “unaccountable killer” when they see that uniform and there’s honestly reason for that).

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      10 months ago

      Calling the police for a wellness check is just legalized swatting…

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      10 months ago

      Send somebody competent - are you sure there are enough competent people willing to this without protection?

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        10 months ago

        In my experience, social worker programs are only understaffed because they are severely underfunded.

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          10 months ago

          And we cycle back to “defund the police” being a bad slogan when we want to direct some of that law enforcement funding to support personal welfare

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            10 months ago

            Maybe they should have borrowed corporate lingo to call for right-sizing police, or restructure community resources.

            “Defund the police” is such obviously bad marketing that it makes you wonder if the people who coined the phrase were trying to help or hinder reform efforts.