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I imagine SFPD officers will be happy to offload these particular cases. And if the Street Crisis team can't handle a particular individual, they can always bri
by pmdulaney 6y ago
I imagine SFPD officers will be happy to offload these particular cases. And if the Street Crisis team can't handle a particular individual, they can always bring in the police themselves.
- toomuchtodo 6y agoCan’t speak to SFPD, but St Pete in Central Florida is doing something similar, hiring 25 social workers instead of 25 police officers. I’m curious to see if this causes contention between officers and social workers. The social workers are obviously necessary and valuable, but this is likely to lead to a decrease in power for law enforcement based on force numbers if it starts happening at scale.