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guest · 10 years ago
Although there are many problems with the American "Justice" system, I think that the problem lies with the operator on the end of the suicide prevention line. From what I know, the people on the line are taught to try to calm down the victim; if forces were needed, I don't see why the operator called the cops and not suicide specialists. There are many errors in this situation. 1) The operator for calling the wrong response unit 2) The man for coming out armed and 3) The cop for either poor aim or poor choice of shot impact.
Yes, there are several issues with the American system (as there are with any system), but each team can only deal with an issue as they are trained. That is how cops are trained.
After reading some of the other articles, I noticed that it was all about cops; which makes sense because they aren't trained to deal with "crisis intervention". In the case of Christian Alberto Sierra, you'll see that he even provoked to cops. The spread of the blame isn't so simple.
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