What few constitutional rights the homeless enjoy may soon be on the line at the high court.

What few constitutional rights the homeless enjoy may soon be on the line at the high court.

  • qooqie@lemmy.world
    10·
    9 months ago

    Very true and these police should be trained and continually educated on how to deal with and identify mental health episodes. A lot of people hate police as do I, but I truly believe with proper oversight and education they can be a great asset to our society.

    • treefrog@lemm.ee
      14·
      9 months ago

      Or just rely more on social workers who actually have that education. And less on people with guns who have a history of authoritarian abuses and state sanctioned violence that can be triggering, especially for people with mental illness.

    • PugJesus@kbin.social
      11·
      9 months ago

      I love how the original idea for police was “Wow, we should really have some form of enforcing the law that isn’t dependent on local prejudices or just government men trained only to shoot people”, and now it’s… well…

      • lolcatnipEnglish
        11·
        9 months ago

        Whose original idea for police? Sounds like maybe you’re alluding to Robert Peel. But as far as I know, the intellectual heritage of American police is more of an extension of runaway slave patrols.

        • PugJesus@kbin.social
          1·
          9 months ago

          Peel. I could get into a broader argument about the institutional origins of American police, but I think it suffices to say that American police were, at least in terms of becoming formalized structures, influenced by British (and French) policing ideals of the early-mid-19th century.

          In that sense, they’ve certainly not lived up to the purported ideals.