Does it take 48 hours to analyze a blood test for meth? NO. Does it take 48 hours to call a person's doctor or health care facility to find out if the mental or emotional disorder they claim to suffer from is 'real'? NO. Does it cost too much to have a few breafings for officers on dealing with posible mental or emotionally ill people? If so something is wrong. I had a PTSD 'Event' where someone triggered my PTSD defensive reactions. I sent the guy to the hospital before I realized it. The cops could have wrestled me to the ground, threw the cuffs on and drug me off to jail for a few days. I was totally dazed and non-combative. Instead my supervisor told the reponding officers I was a Bipolar/PTSD person under treatment. They let me sit outside and smoke uncuffed, even lighting my cigs because I was shaking so hard. They sent two officer's to my house and one stayed with my sleeping son while the other drove the wife to where I worked. They allowed my wife to drive me in my car to the V.A. hospital with an escort following and the officer checked with the doctor after he had talked to me, examined me and gave me a shot. Then the officer followed us home. They only came by the house to question me two days later, as they had an eye-witness to the event and fellow employees said the guy had planned it for weeks. I was never charged, kept my job and was never harassed about the event. Of course all the officers in this department were trained with and carried emergency defibulators, had Red Cross 1st aid training up to near para-medic level and were most professional in their dealings with the public. What a difference a small city can make if they really try. Rent and watch "One Flew Over The Cookoos Nest" or "Catch 22". Fairly accurate portrayals of the thoughts of the time. "Projecting the worst is a prescription for anxiety." Uppity |
