Send in the social workers.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

No, I want them to be better trained in the use of force, and their applicants to be better screened.

You’re continually misrepresenting the role of social workers as an adjunct to law enforcement. The idea is to send social workers on calls that don’t require armed police. No one - and I mean no one - has ever suggested sending social workers to deal with a riot. As for ‘slogans, cheers and kind words’, you obviously still haven’t read the law in question. Instead, you’ve chosen to use an op-ed from a right-wing rag to bolster your position.

When you use one straw man argument to support another straw man argument, you’re going backwards.

Boru

So are you the one with a crystal ball that is going to dispatch who goes on what call?  You just " know" which calls are going to need an armed response?

Fine - send the social worker to the " cat in a tree" calls.

And cops on the scene are the ones that need to make the call of what degree of force is needed - not some empty headed stuffed suit in city hall who is going to make his decisions on use of force based on upcoming election projections.

Not me, certainly, but this doesn’t seem to be a difficult chore. Can you tell me why police - you know, the guys with guns, tasers, pepper spray, riot batons and so on - need to be sent out on a welfare check or a missing juvenile?

If cops on-scene are the best judges of the amount of force required, explain the story I linked about the in-scene cop who beat the crap out of an unarmed, unresisting, manacled teenager.

Boru