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NYPD officers will stay out of many mental health crisis calls and social workers will respond instead in parts of northern Manhattan starting this spring.
The head of the city’s wide-ranging mental health initiative gave some details of the test program to lawmakers Monday, fleshing out a plan the city outlined broadly in November.
The test program will begin in three Harlem and East Harlem police precincts that together accounted for over 7,400 mental health-related 911 calls last year. Still, some important specifics remain to be seen in practice.
Mental health advocates have hailed the idea but expressed some reservations about how the city is structuring it. Link
Good way to thin the numbers of social workers.
Must be part of the Depopulation agenda and eating test tube grown meat.
They can also use up some of those extra COVID body bags no one needed.
Should make being a police officer a little bit safer.
Sending social workers instead of cops….hmmmm
that’s until the bodies of dead social workers start piling up…
Now we’re going to have to defund social workers.
I have a BA in Social Work EWU 1980. I’m glad that I never became a social worker, I found out early on that I wasn’t screwed up enough or have come from a dysfunctional family to have a been a good social worker. Besides I hate political correctness and would’ve bucked the system and found myself out of a job because I wouldn’t conform to their malarkey and bs. I am thankful that I have had an honest living raising a good family of 3 children, all who are doing well and now 4 and possibly a 5th grandchild later this year.
How many social workers will take early retirement?
Will they get hazard pay like the stores are forced to pay for the china flu?
Didn’t they already kill a handful of social workers in MI or MN? I remember seeing stories about them last year. Maybe it was OR?
Will they be armed like every other government dept now is?
Let us know how that works out for ya…
What, are they nutz? Someone’s going to get killed.
MJA
I think that was the FBI. Well, same thing.
It’s not like the social worker is going to show up on the same day-or even in the same week—that they’re called.
Brad. I know about the FBI ones, but this was an actual social worker. It may have been detroit or minneapolis.
DRG,
(ssshhhhhh……not so loud…….it’s supposed to be a surprise…….)
@ Full Auto FEBRUARY 23, 2021 AT 2:15 PM
Socialist workers should never have been funded to begin with.
We need less injured cops anyway.
Then social workers should pack heat to protect themselves.
Ever met a social worker? Most need a social worker.
Very, Very good. Social workers are mostly hard lefters.
Let them feel the damage they’ve done; up close and personal.
Aren’t social workers actually part of the problem?
They’re a impotent cog in a imperfect system.
Isn’t a degree in social work really just a bullshit degree for most who doesn’t know what to do with their lives… seriously… really… i mean it…
I wonder if social workers have a union, yet? They sure aren’t paid enough to take these kinds of risk.
I guess sending in psychiatrist would get too expense and no crazy person would waste their time talking to a psychologist. So it’s either the cops or the social workers.
…my Fire Department once got a mental health call that proved to be a guy who set his own house on fire, moved to a window upstairs away from the flames, and settled down with a rifle to take potshots at the first responding Lieutenant because, crazy.
…send a social worker to THAT…
Should make for a STEADY supply of jobs for those with a Bachelors in Social Work!
Undertakers, too… 😳
…of course, the catch here is that crazy people don’t always TELL you they’re crazy, so, since anyone waving a gun or knife around is “acting crazy”, send the social worker to ALL those calls ALONE, since SOMEONE’S gotta be the canary in the mineshaft…
7000 of those calls were made by Cuomo.
Any social worker who takes the job should have their head examined.
Did some psych visits in home health. Got chased very slowly down the hall by a patient waving pinking shears at me pulling herself along in her wheelchair with her feet. She’s screaming COME BACK IM NOT DONE WITH YOU…
Actually I think we ARE done here.
My new hire trainee asked me to take him back to the office, he resigned immediately.
One of my coworkers got thrown in a basement and locked down there for 8 hours by another home health patient NOT designated as psych in our records. Rescued by a neighbor. The company tried to blame her for not taking appropriate precautions. Um, you didnt warn me he’s psych…
The Social Work degree was only invented by the Universities in order to enroll and charge tuition to people otherwise to dumb to attend!
…a family friend got a social work degree, did that for awhile, then got her mortuary license and started prepping corpses for funerals instead.
She said the corpses were more cooperative, even the 300 pound one she got trapped under when she rolled him, and more rewarding to work with, too…
Will the Social workers colleagues be able to attend or are funerals in New York just immediate family to deter group gatherings?
So how will this work? Will they set the timer and after 50 minutes, close the session and make an appointment for the same time next week? This is going to be great. How do I get a popcorn concession in NYC?
What will happen is that moronic psychos will be dialing 911 just to have someone show up to talk to.
On the other hand, a lot of these fools will be beaten or murdered.
The best things one can do for society is to produce something that lasts and not take from society.
In that case ALL social workers assigned to that detail should be P.O.S.T. certified with Firearms training! Otherwise they could end up dead meat!
Anonymous
FEBRUARY 23, 2021 AT 6:14 PM
“What will happen is that moronic psychos will be dialing 911 just to have someone show up to talk to.”
..we had some older folks that would call for an ambulance with imaginary symptoms they couldn’t even remember just to get someone to visit them to talk to.
More sad than psycho.
…tried to be gentle about it, they were just very, very lonely, but we did have to deal with actual emergencies. They didn’t usually want to talk to social workers, though, apparently that came with both a stigma and a level of insincerity that even the lonely couldn’t stomach.
It was kind of a Munchausen’s thing, just not involving physical damage.
…but their spirits seemed pretty broken…
..not everyone who needs mental health support is a raving lunatic.
Some are just alone in the world.
You should pray for them.
…and pray it doesn’t happen to you…
Doc
FEBRUARY 23, 2021 AT 7:43 PM
“In that case ALL social workers assigned to that detail should be P.O.S.T. certified with Firearms training!”
…so, cops, then?