Joan, thanks for the info. I watched the body cam videos and wondered how they should have done it.
Personally, I feel the police are often put into some "no win" situations and aren't always trained for them. I like the Eugene, OR model of having trained social workers and nurses/doctors respond to these type of calls with police backu…
Joan, thanks for the info. I watched the body cam videos and wondered how they should have done it.
Personally, I feel the police are often put into some "no win" situations and aren't always trained for them. I like the Eugene, OR model of having trained social workers and nurses/doctors respond to these type of calls with police backup only when necessary.
You are welcome. I agree with you. The city of Rochester agrees with you, and only sent police because their trained people were busy elsewhere. That is going to happen, so the police need better training. But it's more than that. It's partly the militarization of the police in general. It's partly system racism. It's partly systemic social hostility to anyone snap-categorized as 'other'.
Thanks for sound comments, Joan. There are two kinds of training, first being formal or Academy Training. Then there's what I call the Real Training that comes in the early days on the job. It's socialization into the culture of the force (note the irony of the name), and is a notorious example of institutional continuity. Worse, when officers come from LE families they imbibe it from childhood. Bullies reproducing bullies. I got the Real Training to start two brief years in a county sheriff's office. It was like an education in immorality. Not sure what the solution is, but at least the problem is clear enough.
Joan, thanks for the info. I watched the body cam videos and wondered how they should have done it.
Personally, I feel the police are often put into some "no win" situations and aren't always trained for them. I like the Eugene, OR model of having trained social workers and nurses/doctors respond to these type of calls with police backup only when necessary.
Again, thanks for educating me on this.
You are welcome. I agree with you. The city of Rochester agrees with you, and only sent police because their trained people were busy elsewhere. That is going to happen, so the police need better training. But it's more than that. It's partly the militarization of the police in general. It's partly system racism. It's partly systemic social hostility to anyone snap-categorized as 'other'.
Thanks for sound comments, Joan. There are two kinds of training, first being formal or Academy Training. Then there's what I call the Real Training that comes in the early days on the job. It's socialization into the culture of the force (note the irony of the name), and is a notorious example of institutional continuity. Worse, when officers come from LE families they imbibe it from childhood. Bullies reproducing bullies. I got the Real Training to start two brief years in a county sheriff's office. It was like an education in immorality. Not sure what the solution is, but at least the problem is clear enough.
I feel like they should have probably called an ambulance and treated her as a person who needed medical intervention instead of as a criminal.