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So what is the different response when someone is suicidal and wants someone to kill them?  ("I'm just ready to go.")  And they run with a knife toward whatever government entity responds to the crisis?  Do you honestly think that an unarmed female (because they are all women) social worker is going to be able to deescalate that situation with words?  Every single time?  Who keeps the bystanders safe while she's talking?   Who keeps the social workers safe?  When that person wants to die and has chosen the police as the means to do it.   You don't think someone who's determined enough will continue to injure people until he gets the police response he wants?

Will that happen every time?  No.   Social workers will be able to talk some out of it.   But what are the safety protocols necessary to have a social worker even feel safe going into that unknown situation?   Because...what social worker in their right mind wants to respond to a knife call without safety protocols in place?   [/quote]

Antoinette Tuff is an "unarmed female" who stopped a school shooting with words. She was a bookkeeper, not a social worker, though. Maybe that's why she was able to do it. :roll: [/quote]

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