Simple idea, sounds like an easy one to implement. Cities in Canada already have lots of social workers, why don’t social workers just handle cases as the lead? Scoop a cop if the situation needs security?
Simple idea, sounds like an easy one to implement. Cities in Canada already have lots of social workers, why don’t social workers just handle cases as the lead? Scoop a cop if the situation needs security?
Simple idea, sounds like an easy one to implement. Cities in Canada already have lots of social workers, why don’t social workers just handle cases as the lead? Scoop a cop if the situation needs security?
Limited number social workers (underfunded) have trouble dealing with the current workloads, cannot deal with more. While in Toronto, what are we a ~billion dollars and roughly a quarter of our entire city budget goes to TPS?
What I don't get is why anyone in general would be oppose a lower cost solution? Unless they have skin in the game on the waste of course...or just like the bust heads approach.
Limited number social workers (underfunded) have trouble dealing with the current workloads, cannot deal with more. While in Toronto, what are we a ~billion dollars and roughly a quarter of our entire city budget goes to TPS?
What I don't get is why anyone in general would be oppose a lower cost solution? Unless they have skin in the game on the waste of course...or just like the bust heads approach.
It's a great idea until a social worker gets killed on the job. We need more support for people with mental health issues so they are not out on the streets to begin with making it an issue the police have to deal with. Not letting them out on the streets and causing the issue for the social worker to respond to after the fact and possibly putting both their lives in danger. Deal with the issue and provide the care/funding up front would lessen the number of calls the police have to respond to and ultimately save money by not having to hire more officers.
Simple idea, sounds like an easy one to implement. Cities in Canada already have lots of social workers, why don’t social workers just handle cases as the lead? Scoop a cop if the situation needs security?
It's a great idea until a social worker gets killed on the job. We need more support for people with mental health issues so they are not out on the streets to begin with making it an issue the police have to deal with. Not letting them out on the streets and causing the issue for the social worker to respond to after the fact and possibly putting both their lives in danger. Deal with the issue and provide the care/funding up front would lessen the number of calls the police have to respond to and ultimately save money by not having to hire more officers.
Nailed it. The vast majority of homeless people you see on the streets of downtown TO ought to be institutionalized. It would also help if we institutionalized the habitual druggies/junkies, at least temporarily, instead of the current setup where the east side of downtown is basically a free-for-all. But these things cost big $$$ and no one wants to do it.
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