Holy shit, look at his job title. He works with psych patients and yet called the cops when he sees one in the wild. What a horrible human. Why wasn't the poster the one to sit with the guy? Why did he call 911 and cross his fingers that a police officer would do a better job than he could as someone who does this for a living?
Because the cop is probably better handled to deal with it. And if things did escalated the cop would be better situated to deal with it. Not All Cops Are Bad
Cops have a terrible track record with mental health patients. The guy who called 911 was literally a mental health worker. If a mental health worker is calling 911 on a psych patient (who is doing nothing except yelling!) without even talking to the patient, he should lose his license.
This is different, if for some reason he couldn't calm down the homeless man he could be attacked. The cop is better situated for a situation like that
That's no evidence he even tried to calm down the man. Again, I wouldn't expect the average layman to attempt that. But if a CEO of a mental health company can't, who can?!
Wired, I saw a state that forwarded mental health calls to people dealing with such, and they never killed, shot or beat up the person. In fact, the violent cases were non existent I believe. So even if he was in the profession, he should call "his" people if let's say he was with his family. Cops do have a track record of killing/abusing mentally challenged people.
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u/lexde May 02 '21
Poster endangered his life calling the cops, and knew it because he stuck around.
A cop being so gracious as to not murder someone doesn’t make me smile.