My cousin is a police captain in small town America. He's a good guy, and I think this is a good article.
http://www.vox.com/first-person/2017...is-ohio-police
In particular I thought this paragraph might strike a chord with us:
If you ask me, and nobody does, the problem isn't that there is not enough money in Social Services. It's that there are not enough jobs. People, men especially need to feel some sense of value. Collecting a government stipend does not provide that.In a lot of ways, this shift toward social services has been a shift back to how I remember the old days of policing. A couple decades ago when I first entered the force, the emphasis was all about community policing. We were problem solvers first and foremost, and part of that involved some degree of social work.
As time went on, I saw a shift in priorities. Policing became less about getting people help. The focus became more on reactive, call-to-call arrests and jail time and less on problem solving. That social work element wasn’t as important, and I think a lot of our officers have sort of forgotten how to do that side of the job.
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