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A major problem I see is the idea of only one kind of social adjustment role: the uniformed police officer. There are situations where the warrior mindset are
by bredren 6y ago
A major problem I see is the idea of only one kind of social adjustment role: the uniformed police officer.
There are situations where the warrior mindset are needed. We do need people who can deal with extremely dangerous situations involving lethal force.
However, many, many situations need social workers more than they need warriors. If anything the warrior could back up their unarmed counterpart.
Why aren’t there other roles with different capabilities that work in concert with warriors?
I’m not sure it makes sense to only seek to retrain when probably a great share of existing police officers could be replaced with more effective counterparts with some of the same powers but completely different skills and assignments.
It is teams of skilled specialists that solve difficult problems, why do we have only one person to mend so much of society’s challenging circumstances?
- pwned1 6y agoI’ve known a few officers and they usually refer to themselves as “social workers in uniform.”
- sophacles 6y agoThey don't know what "social worker" means then - social workers have the task of helping, not murdering, people. We should hold the cops to the standard they hold us: if there is not proof of innocence, or if they have the wrong pigmentation, or if they are near a citizen having a bad day, or the moon has a phase, its justified and heroic to fuck their life, no questions.
- bredren 6y agoIt’s just not always like this. If this is all you’ve seen, or all you believe current police do, then you aren’t seeing it all.
- bredren 6y agoI have personal experience where a uniformed, armed police officer came to a situation and did nothing but offer their presence in the face of tragedy. The situation did not need a gun—or the ability to confront violence. It needed someone brave and empathetic and this person did that and I’ll never forget it.
- kelnos 6y agoIt's good that those officers "get it", but the fact that we need people to act as social workers but train them to be warriors instead is a huge problem. Even the ones that manage to push past that and understand that a warrior's posture isn't always appropriate don't have the training to deal with actual social work.