I truly appreciate you addressing this topic, but it seems to me like you're missing the elephant in the room standing next to the T-Rex in the room.
Peace officers should regularly have psych evaluations themselves, and I say that because I'm a strong supporter of law enforcement, but I'm not a supporter of corruption or poor training.
It is also true that the mental health industry has its own issues.
You're trying to boil it down to an either / or scenario, which is exactly where the problem begins. I don't do either / or. There's always a third option to everything. Compartmentalized thinking is one of the worst flaws of the human species.
Thank you so much! I have persuasively dealt with this too many times to count! Police ARE NOT mental health providers! Is wildly inappropriate to turn our role into that. That would be akin to social workers responding to the two situations described in your article, and when fighting for their life later being blamed for not understanding interpersonal combativeness, and then criticized why they chose not to carry a legal commercially available taser… Or some ridiculous argument like that.
Thank you so much. This is truly valuable feedback borne of real world experience. Police do a job that the media can’t, and then the media tells the world that the police can’t do that job. Madness.
Important topic and analysis.
I truly appreciate you addressing this topic, but it seems to me like you're missing the elephant in the room standing next to the T-Rex in the room.
Peace officers should regularly have psych evaluations themselves, and I say that because I'm a strong supporter of law enforcement, but I'm not a supporter of corruption or poor training.
It is also true that the mental health industry has its own issues.
You're trying to boil it down to an either / or scenario, which is exactly where the problem begins. I don't do either / or. There's always a third option to everything. Compartmentalized thinking is one of the worst flaws of the human species.
Thank you so much! I have persuasively dealt with this too many times to count! Police ARE NOT mental health providers! Is wildly inappropriate to turn our role into that. That would be akin to social workers responding to the two situations described in your article, and when fighting for their life later being blamed for not understanding interpersonal combativeness, and then criticized why they chose not to carry a legal commercially available taser… Or some ridiculous argument like that.
ON POINT as usual, my friend!
Thank you so much. This is truly valuable feedback borne of real world experience. Police do a job that the media can’t, and then the media tells the world that the police can’t do that job. Madness.