[HN Gopher] Florida police department diverting calls to mental ... ___________________________________________________________________ Florida police department diverting calls to mental health staff Author : onepossibility Score : 15 points Date : 2022-07-11 22:15 UTC (44 minutes ago) (HTM) web link (www.newsnationnow.com) (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.... | orangepurple wrote: | Our European visitors are important to us. This site | is currently unavailable to visitors from the European Economic | Area while we work to ensure your data is protected in accordance | with applicable EU laws. | | For our European brothers and sisters that can't see shit when | they click the link: https://archive.ph/zvuMG | [deleted] | 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-07-11 23:00 UTC)