LeafByNiggle:
HarryStotle:
LeafByNiggle:
Just once I would like to see some evidence quoted that does not involve some far right group as the messenger
As an aside: re: a defund the police thread from a couple months back where you spoke highly of social workers being trained to defuse situations…
…got any comment on the social worker in Seattle who was stabbed to death by a client she was working with on the same day the Seattle city council were voting on defunding law enforcement and initiating a more “socially conscious” program?
Yes. It is unwise to base policy on the exceptional case.
As in defunding the police based upon a few questionable cases of police shooting?
Perhaps you should familiarize yourself with this database of police shootings before calling it a “few”:
And here is more:
Police shootings are more common than the number of social workers who are stabbed by their clients. If you want to know how dangerous it is being a social worker, in a list of the
20 most dangerous jobs in America, the job of social worker comes in at #20 at 1 death per 100,000. More dangerous jobs in that list include architects and engineers (1.2/100,000), janitors and pest control specialists (5.8/100,000), firefighters and police officers (6.2/100,000), mechanics (7.6/100,000), miners (11.4), construction workers (12.5), taxi drivers (14.7), tree trimmers (18.1), electrical line workers (20.5), farmers (22), truckers (24.7), steel workers (29.8), garbage collectors (38.8), roofers (39.7), pilots and flight engineers (40.4), fishermen (54.8), and loggers (132.7 / 100,000), a full 132.7 times as dangerous as being a social worker. So I think it is safe to say that instances of social workers being stabbed on the job are definitely isolated cases, unlike police shootings.