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[–] 122 points 2 years ago (7 children)

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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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 5 points 2 years 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.

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