[HN Gopher] Florida police department diverting calls to mental ...
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       Florida police department diverting calls to mental health staff
        
       Author : onepossibility
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2022-07-11 22:15 UTC (44 minutes ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.newsnationnow.com)
        
       | toomuchtodo wrote:
       | St Pete's shifting of police funding to mental health workers has
       | also reduced suicide:
       | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pinellascounty/st-pe...
        
       | data4lyfe wrote:
       | I don't think this would work as well in cities like San
       | Francisco and Seattle....
        
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       | kibwen wrote:
       | A good start. It's obvious, for example, that if you call 911
       | because someone's having a heart attack, that they should
       | dispatch paramedics, not police officers. If you call to report a
       | house fire, they should dispatch firefighters. The purpose of the
       | police is to threaten violence and to exercise violence. For any
       | emergency that violence isn't equipped to solve, dispatch a
       | specialist.
        
         | tgsovlerkhgsel wrote:
         | In many places they dispatch police and paramedics for a heart
         | attack.
         | 
         | The police officers are trained to provide CPR and have
         | defibrillators in their cars, of course. (The reason they don't
         | just dispatch paramedics because the police can often be there
         | faster, either because they have more units or simply happen to
         | be closer.)
        
           | giraffe_lady wrote:
           | Yeah they might give you CPR and also maybe shoot your dog or
           | check your family for warrants! Win/win right.
        
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