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Alucard188 posted...

They need to stop sending police to do these welfare checks. Send social workers, not guns.

I was recently watching an Audit The Audit video where the police pulled over a suspected drunk driver. He threw out a very surprising statistic. Did you know that most mental health professionals cant even reasonably distinguish between a mental health impairment and a substance abuse impairment? They can manifest such similar symptoms (I guess is the right word) that even someone trained to deal with the mental health of others cant immediately distinguish between the two.

So the idea that you can instantly tell who needs police involvement and who needs a social worker is a myth. There is no such person on the planet who can adequately make that determination with certainty.