HGCC
Well-Known Member
Denver seems kind of similar to Portland in many ways, at least in terms of some of the issues we face. I think we both have large homeless populations with a bunch of mental health issues. Like anywhere there is crime, but man neither place is Detroit. There is a big difference between dudes waging drug wars and a city where you have poop covered people smacking their dongs on car windows.
Crazy people are going to do crazy things, you are correct that it's likely to wind up badly at some point for the social worker. It generally hasn't though, I don't think it's likely to have that become common. Cops tend to approach a situation and escalate it, this de-escalates. This is a far more compassionate way to deal with mental health and has shown better results than having cops show up.
If you have family that suffers from issues this is quite a bit better and what you would want. I think about stuff like people with autism when they are having a freakout/meltdown, cops are not equipped to deal with that, they taze them and take them down. That's not acceptable.
Crazy people are going to do crazy things, you are correct that it's likely to wind up badly at some point for the social worker. It generally hasn't though, I don't think it's likely to have that become common. Cops tend to approach a situation and escalate it, this de-escalates. This is a far more compassionate way to deal with mental health and has shown better results than having cops show up.
If you have family that suffers from issues this is quite a bit better and what you would want. I think about stuff like people with autism when they are having a freakout/meltdown, cops are not equipped to deal with that, they taze them and take them down. That's not acceptable.