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I've participated in mental health crisis responses as a mental health professional, and I can tell you if there are reports of violence, weapons, or anything pointing toward physical danger, the police will lead or co-respond on the call. Similarly, we know how to gauge risk, IMO better than the police do. We will not engage or will disengage if we sense potential risk to anyone's physical safety and will call for police backup. When working with the public, you can never eliminate all risk, but there are already a ton of crisis social workers and paramedics out there doing this.
OOOOHH
That actually makes total sense; I guess that was the missing piece that I wasn't envisioning when I was talking about how it doesn't make sense.
As a general rule I don't at all agree with the ACAB or "we have to punish the police now" mentality, but sending mental health professionals to these calls if you're going to also have police in the subset of situations where they make sense actually sounds like a great step forward. Thanks for the insight.
Guess it helps if you read the article and get all the facts before reacting…
I think if more people did that we’d have fewer republicans.
Tru dat, 100% fair enough.