Has a police "wellness check" for a person with mental health challenges ever actually helped that person? I'll grant at least one instance has happened. What's the ratio though?
@jump_spider If it was conducted in good faith, by a sympathetic officer concerned about the person, I wouldn't mind.
There's many examples of State using this kind of thing to suppress opposition people though, so that is to be wary of.
@design_RG
Not just the State, but corporations as well. Having personally been subjected to a wellness check, they have a rote list of questions. The first thing the officer did was casually put his hand on his firearm when I opened the door, just to remind me he had it. The experience left me with the creepy sensation that someone felt the need to send a cop to my door, and had I been in even less sound mind, I might have died.
@design_RG
Yes, I'm in the US, and I agree that's a contributing factor to my weariness with cops.
They chose to be cops though. The safest place on their job is in the station. If they're so afraid, they should stay there or find a more noble profession.
@jump_spider I saw a Toot pass by the other day talking about that -- how people who care are into service professions, delivering to many. Nurses, teachers, other professions were listed.
That was contrasted with the different nature and bent of people who went into security apparatus.
@jump_spider Oooh... Really, that's shocking. 😮
Are you in the US? I have found the ways of american officers different, much more tense and agressive, than other forces.
There are a lot of firearms in the country, and I think that's one reason for their weariness.