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Real solutions:
The Marshall Project: what communities have learned from sending unarmed responders instead of police, including “data suggests unarmed responders rarely need to call in police” and “many people remain leery of dialing 911 in a crisis”.
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2024/07/25/police-mental-health-alternative-911
@corlin that sounds a good solution
Kinda makes me think about what happened in Glasgow over the years because of knife violence & Glasgow being a death capital - community groups were set up to mediate - as well as setting up violence reduction unit run mainly by volunteers inside hospitals - treating it as a health issue more worked
https://counter.social/@ecksmc/111141530709194948