Post by moose1am on Jan 25, 2014 19:00:17 GMT -5
I am a Police officer. We take mental health issues and give them a high priority. We transport them to our local hospital where they are taken to the ER. Sometimes before we are done with our paperwork these people are already on their way out the door. When we ask we get the reply that 1) no beds available, 2) the doctor didnt think they were serious, or 3) they didnt restrain them and they just decided they wanted to leave and the staff let them. They (mental health patients) need a higher priority with the hospitals. As for armed people in the schools. We already have officers assigned to our schools, but they a slamed with investigations of sex abuse, bomb threats and the regular fights and threats in the student body. We also have school security officers armed. Junior high and senior high students and all visitors already enter through metal detectors every time they enter school. Our comunity feels better than most about the security at our schools. as far as getting an AR good luck finding one. Our local distributor is completely sold out, He handles 4 different brands and normally has somthing in stock that our local FFL license holders can get for us, but not now.
When I was younger I went to class to become an EMT. I worked in a local hospital's ER one night. We have this young kid who was brought to the ER and who was so combative that he had to be fully restrained. He was on PCP or some other drug and was pretty strong for his size. He allowed me to take his vitals and the Nursed didn't want to be around him so they let the EMT take care of the vitals and had me watch him. He didn't like one of the ER nurse who IMHO was very rude to the boy. He was only about 17 years old or so.
Anyway back then I smoked and this kid was having a nicotine fit and kept asking me to give him a cigarette. I was not allowed to give him anything unless the Doctor ordered that and then the Nurse's did that. I had to work the ER to get so many continuing education hours in to keep my EMT certification. I didn't really enjoy working in there.
I also volunteered to work some of the city concerts as an emt with the local Environmental Management Agency Ambulance and fire crew. We basically worked the concert and took the drug overdoses to the ER after the concert was over. Those that were able to walk out and drive home were not bothered. But those that were passed out usually got taken to the ER for evaluation and treatment. The ER nurses didn't like to see us coming as they knew it was a bad patient IMHO. These type of ER patients are usally so drunk or so passed out that they piss their pants and are puking up vomit and don't really smell very good. And they are sometimes very combative as well.
So I understand why they kick them out of the ER and don't get them the mental health treatment that they need and deserve. These drug addicts are sick people and need help even though they don't realize it. They end up back on the streets doing all kinds of bad things.
Just tonight I read in our local paper where the local police witness a shooting. They chased and caught the three suspects and they are all three in jail tonight. We have had a lot of shootings in our town lately. Its' getting to be an every day thing here. I fell like I'm living in Chicago or Detroit these days. But it' was good to see that the police actually witness the shooting and caught these guys. There have been a lot of other shootings lately and people are afraid to say anything to the police for fear of reprisals form these gangs. Hopefully these arrests will take a big bite out of crime and make the streets safer. This shooting happened on Main Street of all places. We don't have to go and band guns. We have laws on the books that can take care of this type of thing if people work with the police and report these crimes and get these thugs off the streets and into prision where they belong. After the shooting the police found 22 shell casing on the ground at the scene. The guy who was shot is in critical condition now with wounds to his kidney, spleen and stomach. The police said that they witness three black men come out of the building and walk into a parking lot and started shooting. The suspects fled the scene when the police got out of their car and approached the suspects and told them to drop their weapons. The police ran them down on foot and saw the suspects get into a car and drive away. Other squad cars caught up with the get a way car and stopped the car and made the arrest. Good job guys.
I think that everyone wants these shootings to stop. The police had the bar staked out as there was reason to believe that some thing would go down in this bar sooner or later. I guess there had been trouble here before at this bar.
The suspects will be charged with attempted murder and hopefully they will be convicted and sent away for a very long time.
And I hope that the guy who was shot recovers fully.
But we don't need to destroy the US Constitution to get these mental ill people off the street. I feel that gang members are mental ill if they are doing drugs and going around shooting people on the streets all the time.
In the same news paper I read that our county had the highest number of meth arrests in the entire State. So maybe if we changed the laws to require a doctor's prescription before you can buy Sudafed there would be less meth on the streets and less violence as a result. I've got high blood pressure and can't take Sudafed anyway and it makes my blood pressure go up too high. I take the alternative and it works just fine when I have a cold or a stuffed up nose. So there is no excuse to not make Sudafed a prescription required drug.