re: Los Angeles City Council moves forward with plan to replace police officers

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After a few killings, they will start arming the social workers.

Then more will be killed and the social workers will demand protection and they will receive bullet proof vests.

Then that won’t be enough and so on and so on....

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The thing is, most police departments of any real size or scope, already employ social workers. They are actually used regularly with mental health calls and the like. This is not a new idea, necessarily. Eliminating the traditional police officer element, which now is always the first on the scene, is new. I don't think this will last, and is likely to never be fully developed and/or implemented.

This really only sounds like a PR move. Most issues are probably nonviolent. But those are the ones that NEVER result in any escalation . So nothing is gained by the leftists
Further, a problem I have is that you now want the police to handle ONLY violent type situations
Where and when will the police learn to interact with the public in handling these potentially dangerous situations?
Removing them from the “petty “ issues is a disservice to the rookie cops learning their career
In the long run, this only will make matters worse

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That is going to be a shite show lol

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And it’s going to be glorious!

This is great, and these experts should always be the first responders on all domestic calls, where the parties involved just need some marriage counseling and the like.

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he move to replace some police with trained crisis responders is one component of the movement. Supporters of defunding police -- either abolishing police entirely or shrinking their departments' budgets and reinvesting those funds in education or housing -- believe that unarmed workers trained to deescalate violence could better serve some community members.

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IMHO.... they have it backward.
Instead of these responders being "not police" but specially trained,
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"police" with additional training.
They could also change the appearance of police uniforms so that the are less threatening, something different with gun belt.

Also, the police pay should be raised along with the standards set to become an officer. This is the CORE of the problem.

Wait, is LA represented primarily by Democrats?
Hasn’t LA almost solely had Democrats in every available office?
Hasn’t LA had a Democrat mayor since likely the last 50 years?

And the police are just now a problem? Why didn’t any of these Democrats reform the police ?

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They could also change the appearance of police uniforms so that the are less threatening, something different with gun belt.

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Democrats haven't fixed anything in my lifetime. They just break shite and then blame it on someone else.

The entertainment from this for those not living in these places is going to be amazing.