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[Xue Sheng]

 

[_Simon_]

This is all drones

Feels like I'm back at Hogwarts all over again....

 

[Xue Sheng]

Watching some of the Chinese New Year Celebrations from China from this New Years..... I have this overwhelming desire to be in China for New Years next year.....As well as felling I really I need to go stand in Santi for awhile......right now!!!!

But sadly I am in my office

 

[Buka]

I’ve been told a Kona Low is coming in tonight. They’re predicting 6-10 inches of rain and high wind.

This is going to suck.

 

[jks9199]

Wrote a long message in another thread, and deleted it since the OP did the right thing and I don't want to take away from that. It also worked out exactly as it should.

But there needs to be more training for police officers in mental health, or an active psychologist/counselor on each shift, so people can do what he did and there not be any worry. Whether that's diverting the funds to the police department to more training rather than pay/new gadgets, or having them hire a number of counselors to go on calls, something needs to be done there.

That's a very big and complicated question and discussion. I'm happy to participate, but maybe in a thread of its own.

The elevator pitch version is that, for a many reasons, police officers have become the problem solvers of US society -- for all sorts of things that really aren't their job. A good patrol officer makes one of the big Swiss Army Knives look like a single-task tool... Which means that there are damn few who excel in everything they are expected to do.

 

[drop bear]

More raining here.

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[drop bear]

Wrote a long message in another thread, and deleted it since the OP did the right thing and I don't want to take away from that. It also worked out exactly as it should.

But there needs to be more training for police officers in mental health, or an active psychologist/counselor on each shift, so people can do what he did and there not be any worry. Whether that's diverting the funds to the police department to more training rather than pay/new gadgets, or having them hire a number of counselors to go on calls, something needs to be done there.

We have cat teams.

A "crisis assessment team callout" refers to contacting a specialized team of mental health professionals, often called a "Crisis Assessment and Treatment Team (CATT)", to respond to a situation where someone is experiencing a severe mental health crisis, requiring immediate assessment and intervention at their location; typically done by calling a dedicated phone number accessible 24/7.

 

[Monkey Turned Wolf]

That's a very big and complicated question and discussion. I'm happy to participate, but maybe in a thread of its own.

The elevator pitch version is that, for a many reasons, police officers have become the problem solvers of US society -- for all sorts of things that really aren't their job. A good patrol officer makes one of the big Swiss Army Knives look like a single-task tool... Which means that there are damn few who excel in everything they are expected to do.

Which is unfair both to them and to the people that they serve. With a couple of relatively straightforward solutions, that for purely political reasons are not allowed to play out or even be tried in the US.