Cops, healthcare professionals, and my thoughts on a disconnect.

[ford_prefect42]

A few of my friends are healthcare workers, they work with "behavioral individuals". My friends are well trained in "de-escalation", IE, they are attuned to what people really want when they are misbehaving, and are very good at giving it to them

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Healthcare workers have also been known to get peace by giving patients lobotomies and drugging them into constant stupor. So they're not as innocent as they like to think themselves.

[mosinging1986]

For the healthcare worker, the optimum result is harmony and peace.

Why? And for whom?

For the police officer, the only viable result is assertion of control.

Control, in the service of protecting 1) themselves and 2) society from the violent criminal doing whatever they're doing at the time.

Those 2 profiles cannot meet.

They SHOULD. That's part of the problem.

[ford_prefect42]

Well, it's pretty understandable, the healthcare workers I am describing work in residences that are intended to be "home" for autistic, retarded, or otherwise mentally not okay people. so I can certainly see where not having to spend the next 2 hours holding someone down would be desireable.

There are a lot of things that they do that make *zero* sense, but that's another story.