>>1914664>It makes a lot more economic sense to train police to deal with homeless AS WELL AS criminals (given how much overlap there is between those groups) than to train twice as many first responders.This.
I'm from Canada where for the most part, our police are required to have a college degree to even apply to join the police college itself. So, those who know they want to be police tend to study things that are going to assist them in that, whether it's learning more about disaster management, psychology, criminology, niche fields of law or heck even information technology.
Problem with the USA is that any retard can become a cop. It's often treated for what it is: a well paid job, unionized with great benefits and a more exciting field of work than most might get to experience, even if it is dangerous.
If states or jurisdictions in the US can make the requirements to become police higher, you get higher value individuals who can join. Any retard can shoot a gun and drive fast, so it makes sense to hire ones who can do that but who have also studied something valuable like criminal psychology or psychiatry PRIOR to even joining the police college.
I'd rather see acceptably educated police doing their usual police work but who also have the skills to deal with someone having a paranoid schizophrenic episode, who can then call in additional medics if required or to take them to the hospital. I'd rather not see some dumb fuck diversity hire who studied gender studies and social work at some low-tier college in the middle of nowhere try to evict bums or deal with someone having a delusional episode.
Problem is it's the USA I guess. The bar for anything there is so fucking low and that's why everything seems to suck, including safe transit.
