Police Officer Fired For Not Using Violence
If the argument is not-"what about the children?" It is often:" the situation was complicated"
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I think about the young man thinking about suicide who meets Roark, and it changes his life. That can really happen. Some weirdo with funny-looking architecture or some other off-the-wall thing that doesn't mean anything to you or me could save someone's life.
I feel like I've been sleeping and just having nightmares for the last 6 or 7 years, nothing I'm hearing could possibly be real. I sure hope I can wake up and get back to reality at least by January 2017. Maybe we're all in the Twilight Zone and just don't know it.
Please do not go running down any docks when you are fully awake and face the reality that the impossible is here, and not going anywhere soon.
I say this intending humor, and yet with a serious edge. I hope it is taken that way.
Completely agree with you. Its like reason has gone out the window.
This officer used his brain rather than following some predefined set action based on case study and scenario reactions. Yes the person could have injured themselves. Being talked down helps a person heal and decide not to kill themselves. Being forced down does not achieve this but simply delays it.
Makes sense to me to see if you can really resolve the situation rather than simply force the desired behavior. Obviously his department does not agree with me.
I guess what perturbs me most is those that want to control our individual destiny, and those that blame others for our actions or inactions. Perhaps cops need to be exempt from prosecution when acting in the line of duty. Or should we give them check sheets to ponder against any situation they might come up against? Why not just hire robots and program them to do what the current whims of the public happen to be today?
I'm sure glad I missed (by one day) joining the Los Angeles County Sherriff's Department.in 1969. Today, if I was still working that job, I'd consider a strike in protest to the demonstrations going on. Or perhaps every time I got a call I'd have to change a flat tire before responding. I could not/would not do that job today.
I wonder - of course, they didn't say - if the patient didn't start to go back into his former mental state on the arrival of the other officers. There's just not enough info in the article to go by.
Still - to cut a cop loose after 20 years - there is something missing in the story that would explain what *really* happened and why. I doubt they will be forthcoming with an explanation - especially since, being a MH situation, all info is then sealed under the HIPAA laws.
Don't Gruber me bro!
pretty soon all of the men who have desires to be police officers that use common sense will not join and only those who are of a sadistic nature will. shades of the SS!
It's hard to imagine a job that requires you to protect someone with your life and then you are sued and or incarcerated for doing your job, or for not doing it....
Better to leave the loonies in California to themselves.
I'd imagine that only in fiction would such a wise man be named Solomon.