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f_bastiat 25 points ago +25 / -0

Seriously though, i am anticipating the articles about social workers killed by mentally ill people. I dont think the police need to be defunded, but if they want to allocate ADDITIONAL funding to let social workers ride along, I can get behind that.

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AGuyFromAus 21 points ago +21 / -0

It depends on the social workers.

I don't know about the US, but in Australia most social workers fall in to two categeories:

  1. Well meaning, trying hard, and (basically) pushing shit uphill trying to work within the system

  2. Incompetent, self-absorbed, vindictive and uses the system to fuck people around for amusement.

There are a LOT more of type 2, by my experience.

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CousinEddie 15 points ago +15 / -0

In the US they’re people who’s personal lives are in absolute shambles, they make very low wages, and they usually have at least one substance abuse problem.

They are barely better than their “clients”

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KAGMAGIC2020 6 points ago +6 / -0

The real world sucks. We need to bring back mental asylums and not the creepy, gulag style ones. Just modern, clean asylums with guards and a safe environment for social workers. Sending social workers into unsecured (i.e. real world) environments is not going to work. At all.

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boxmakingmachines 13 points ago +13 / -0

i am anticipating the articles about social workers killed by mentally ill people.

It already happens and it will only get worse.

A friend of mine works in a regular out-patient hospital. Nothing special, and certainly not a mental health facility. A couple weeks ago, a mentally ill teenager was dropped off and abandoned there by his family. While they were trying to arrange a transfer to the proper hospital, the kid went AWOL and started choking out security guards, one of which shot him in a panic. Now the hospital is getting sued because their guards weren't well enough trained to deal with these sort of situations.

Bottom line: it takes an enormous amount of training, experience, patience and manpower to deal with mentally deranged people. Good luck social workers, you're gonna need it.

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GreekFreakFan 4 points ago +4 / -0

He was a minor, insane, and I don't know if that could be classified as self defense.

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PepperJackButter2024 10 points ago +10 / -0

It may sound cruel but the alternative is an overpopulation of social workers causing many of them to starve. Controlled culling of the herd is the most humane way to manage their population.

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StumpSmasher2 6 points ago +6 / -0

I don't know if there will be articles, it would be par for the course if the media refuses to mention the result of this brilliant plan. Maybe spin it as a lower rate of arrests, and act like that means there's magically less crime instead of the Shit-Giant Samurai terrorizing the neighborhood unimpeded.

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KAGMAGIC2020 2 points ago +2 / -0

Ah yes! Goodthink!