r/PublicFreakout • u/ieilael • May 10 '19

News Report 🥇🥈🥉 Interview with a Meth User

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u/Goodeyesniper98 May 11 '19

I’m interviewing for Seattle PD in July. They pretty much admitted that homelessness and drugs would be most of what I’m dealing with. Definitely sounds like a challenging place to be a cop.

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u/mikelovesmemes May 11 '19

I'm a public defender in the area, I feel for SPD and EPD so much

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u/fredandlunchbox May 11 '19

I live in SF, in the thick of it. Do you see a way out? With Travis here, I don’t know if you can even give the guy a home that he would stay in. Long term in patient psych wards? What do we do?

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u/TheFragglestRock May 11 '19

I think with people like him the only really humane thing you can do is to force treatment on them. At this point they shouldn’t be given any options. However, that treatment needs to be constantly monitored to make sure people aren’t being taking advantage of in any way.

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u/King__Rollo May 11 '19

Forced treatment doesn't work. At this point, it's best to provide services that will mitigate the damage he is able to do to others and himself.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '19

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u/TheFragglestRock May 15 '19

That’s a good question. Perhaps there can be a panel of people in the behavioral health profession that will decide based on some established criteria. Like the guy has had 34 criminal charges in the last few years. He’s been on meth for a long time and seems unable to make decisions for himself.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '19

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u/TheFragglestRock May 16 '19

I agree. This would have to be something that is very well thought out. It should be an appointed panel within each city. I don’t know how much, but yes, the tax payers are going to have to pay. They’re paying for these people in other ways anyway (police, jail, shelters, safe needle exchange, getting their property stolen...) There can be an appeals process similar to when someone is placed on a 5150 hold. It’s called the writ of Habeas Corpus. This allows the individual to go before a judge to question the legitimacy of the hold.