jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 12 days agoFlorida made it easier to involuntarily commit people. A new lawsuit says it’s violating the law.www.motherjones.comexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkFlorida made it easier to involuntarily commit people. A new lawsuit says it’s violating the law.www.motherjones.comjeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 12 days agomessage-square15fedilink
minus-squarejeffw@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·12 days agoThat is weird. We have mobile crisis teams that don’t like to put people away but they can. Although it’s also a separate line from 911, which makes it tricky
minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·12 days agoYeah, here 911 will direct to street response when viable. So, naked person wandering in traffic, crying in the rain? Street response. (Happens more often than you’d think.) https://blanchethouse.org/why-we-call-portland-street-response/ Naked person wandering in traffic, screaming at cars with a sword? That’s the cops. (Also happens more often than you’d think.) https://97rockonline.com/topless-woman-armed-with-sword-arrested-in-oregon/
That is weird. We have mobile crisis teams that don’t like to put people away but they can. Although it’s also a separate line from 911, which makes it tricky
Yeah, here 911 will direct to street response when viable.
So, naked person wandering in traffic, crying in the rain? Street response. (Happens more often than you’d think.)
https://blanchethouse.org/why-we-call-portland-street-response/
Naked person wandering in traffic, screaming at cars with a sword? That’s the cops. (Also happens more often than you’d think.)
https://97rockonline.com/topless-woman-armed-with-sword-arrested-in-oregon/