–Would you like your 22-year-old daughter with a newly-minted BA in social work to enter (not just knock, but enter; she has to do a welfare check) a random stranger’s home? Every day, day in and day out?Wouldn’t it be better if mental health professionals performed welfare checks?
A welfare check is generally and almost invariably a one-time event.OK, now someone else has to do ALL “welfare checks,” so you just made it someone’s job, thus they’d be going frequently
Men are social workers and counselors, too.“nah nah na nah nah, you don’t know what degree these women have!”
It’s important to be professionally qualified for this line of work, specifically at a graduate level. So yes, I care what degree they have. And it is relevant to mention that they wouldn’t be “newly minted 24-year-olds.”WHO CARES what the degree is?
Because armed people apparently don’t know what they’re doing.It’s still foolish - you’re sending unarmed people to enter random strangers’ homes.
And as I said: Gee,what could possibly go wrong with that?
–Those folks who allegedly “don’t know what they’re doing” are the same people you will call for help when you are in trouble - and they will answer you, and come and help you, including by putting their lives on the line, despite your looking down on them. We’ll see if you still think that after you call them for help sometime…Because armed people apparently don’t know what they’re doing.
I too have said police, by and large are hammers that see every problem as a nail. They are good at enforcing laws, but do not understand mentally ill people, except from an enforcement view point, which is why prisons and jails treat more mentally ill people than hospitals. The evidence is compelling. There are some that are real good, but there are also those that just want take care of a call quickly and be done. This is not disrespect. Most are not college educated and most are trained in law enforcement only.They’ve earned the right not to be second-guessed and disrespected as unqualified by third parties with no knowledge of what they do.
All of this is coming from someone unaware that only Masters-level (not 24-year-old fresh grads), professionals can perform mental health interventions or forensic social work and confused a welfare check with a police escort.With all due respect, I don’t think you know or understand what police study; what they’re trained to do and not due; what parameters and restrictions they operate under, or what they’re “qualified” or “unqualified” to do, or even what a welfare check entails.
–These days virtually all police have a college degree…but even if you’re correct, it’s kind of haughty, no? Look, part of my issue with Blackforest is the attitude of, “the police are SO unqualified!” Everyone thinks cops are dumb and uneducated - until they need them! Saying, “they’re not even educated” is, as I said, awfully haughty.Most are not college educated
It would be haughty that way. Level of intelligence and education are not the same. I looked it up. Only a third have a four year degree. Here, it is not even that much. The stat is skewed by the federal officials which require four year degrees. That said, half of police graduated high school, and some form of academy. I am not saying they are uneducated in enforcing the law, just that enforcing the law is the only thing many are educated in.Everyone thinks cops are dumb and uneducated
But they’re treated better in the United States than almost everywhere else.“blacks have never been treated the same as whites”.
This is very true, and is something that needs to get back to being common knowledge. I know some people with masters degrees that are as dumb as a sack of rocks on anything outside their specific field. On the other hand, I know men who never went to college who are smarter and more capable than most college graduates.Level of intelligence and education are not the same.