#RESIST
(Pretty sure I got this from FB, but if it was from here, my apologies for posting again)
I hope a requirement for their position is a Will.
The world needs idealists, if nothing else to show the rest of us cold reality.
Ken
BBI: ...”you better not forget the safe word because shit's about to get weird”...
revchuck38: ...”mo' ammo is mo' betta' unless you're swimming or on fire.”
I genuinely do hope they're successful.
But my yardstick for "successful" here is "They don't get shot, stabbed, beaten or strangled to death"
If they can respond to the stupid little squabbles that 55 year old Karens have when their neighbor parks on their grass, or someone is in the park celebrating a birthday playing their music too loud....so much the better.
I'm just ASSuming they probably won't be dispatched to domestic violence calls, shots fired calls, riots, bar fights and naked-dude-with-sword-and-erection calls
Deleted for unnecessary snark.
I've only skimmed through the article, but it appears the people in that photograph are the idea guys rather than the ones who have to do anything.
Co-Chair Adriana Paz, center, is joined by fellow members of the Lynn Racial Justice Coalition outside City Hall in Lynn. The city is moving forward with plans to have a crisis team, rather than police officers, respond to certain incidents.