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I’ve known a few officers and they usually refer to themselves as “social workers in uniform.”
by pwned1 6y ago
I’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.