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- seattle@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- seattle@lemmy.world
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Fun fact, you can see that this poster is for Seattle.
The police union has used its power to force the city to not allow more than about 24 responders on the “CARE” team, which is a team of non-police responders that are basically just well-equipped social workers with formal training that lets them incredibly effectively handle things like mental health emergencies, drug users, etc.
They then put additional restrictions in place to make it even harder for those people to get dispatched to a scene, such as if any drugs are visible at all, if the person is “confrontational”, if they’re in a building or car, or if there’s an “indication” they’ve committed any form of crime at all.
Dispatchers also can’t send the CARE team alongside police anymore.
The police don’t just do their jobs badly, they force the city to spend money on their high salary and high overtime wages to get worse results, instead of sending in actual professionals.
ACAB.
That wasn’t fun at all, that was bloody infuriating!
I fucken got stuck talking to a libertarian coworker yesterday who was all about negative enforcement. Dude truly believed we needed more punishment and more cops.
This is why you punch them and let them know you’re actually helping them by doing negative enforcement.
I cant punch him through Teams. I really wanted to.
Teams sucks. Been asking for a punch feature for years.
There’s a huge body of academic evidence showing that broadly policing is an ineffective intervention for crime. Including a huge study commissioned by the us government before the 84 crime bill.
That we then passed anyway.
*Fewer
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