What a spineless fucking pussy
"I want the sheriff’s office to know we do love and support our law enforcement here. We would never want to support a movement to defund the police, so to speak. I think a lot of this has been a big misunderstanding."
The police just told you to go eat shit and fend for yourselves because you signed a statement in support of inclusion and diversity. Why, exactly, don’t you support defunding them again?
I smacked my forehead when I read that part. Like, the cops just told you to go fuck yourselves, why go crawling to them like an abuse victim? It's a darn shame, libraries should be bastions of inclusion and education and this library isn't either by giving in to the ravings of a power hungry pig
It's completely fucked up but it illustrates so many overlapping problems. Libraries are the last remaining places where homeless and poor people can sit and rest without the expectation that they buy something. That's great but inevitably there are issues of drugs, hygiene, mental illness, etc. so when someone needs to be removed, the police have become the only people available. By neglecting their calls or otherwise refusing to remove people, the police can make shit real difficult for the library in retaliation
If they had social workers in the library and real mental health professionals on stand by, the library could actually tell the police to fuck off
Well said... America has a problem with expecting the police, a state-sanctioned violent gang, to mediate everything from domestic violence disputes to mentally unstable, suicidal or drug addicted people who need help. Instead of being helped, they get ignored, beaten, shot, or thrown in jail.
We need to reimagine what our emergency response services should look like beyond police, fire and medical. Imagine if we replaced police with a variety of response specialists, such as for example, psychological crisis response specialists to respond to mental breakdowns and suicidal behavior. Addiction response specialists to offer resources and access to counselling/rehab for drug addicts. DV specialists who are equipped to offer support and remove the victim from the situation if they want to get out. And for violent situations, the responders should be trained in deescalation and non-lethal subjugation tactics, so that lethal force is only ever an absolute last resort.
I know all these problems are a lot more complicated than I'm making it seem, but this would still be a huge improvement from what we currently have. Police are good at taking a bad situation and either doing nothing or making it worse.
Because the only way to get a patron out of the library if they're causing a disruption is to call the cops. The librarians can not do anything due to insurance/harm causes to themselves. It's bullshit, but it's liability. The only thing they CAN do is try to appease the cops while supporting freedom/inclusion/etc.
I swear to God cops don't think that they are employed. Like, they have a job to do the same way an action hero has a job to do, but they don't actually have a job that they have to do.
On a side note, how stupid do you have to be to not realize what an incredibly dangerous situation you are living in when your sheriff is free to decide on his own whether or not people get protection by the police. Even if you were some fascist seal-clapping arf-arfing fuck who wanted to see the libtard librarians get owned, wouldn't you, on some level, be able to recognize that this was dangerous for you too?
No,
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/husband-of-a-trump-supporter-deported
Cool, so he’ll be fired I assume? If I just arbitrarily decided not to serve a portion of customers at my job because they hurt my fee-fees, I would be
Library is where it all goes down in my town. Triple murder in a drug deal gone bad in the periodical section last week.
"please help I'm being stabbed outside of the library"
"sorry asshole, should have respected the thin blue line"
These people are psychopaths
Cops showing up at a car crash going "I don't see a thin blue line bumper sticker"
Most of the librarians I know are comrades. And I know a lot of librarians in my family and because my partner has a library sciences degree.
"I am passionate about and proud of the work the Sheriff’s Office does for all members of this community,” Coverley said in the written statement issued Tuesday evening by the Douglas County public information officer. “This has been a difficult time to be a law enforcement professional and can be disheartening when we perceive that our office may be under attack.”
delet the PR industry
An Update: https://sheriff.douglascountynv.gov/news/what_s_new/official_statement_about_letter_to_library_board It looks like the police are going to continue to respond to 911 calls from the library. According to the Sheriff,
“My response to the Library’s proposed agenda item was to provide public comment about their proposed diversity statement and to further provide open commentary about how this could affect our local law enforcement profession.”
Nice backpedal. Also pretty hilarious that he's scared for his over funded police department in a generally peaceful chud filled county.
It would be hilarious if he flattened his dick under the weight of all the Harry Potter books.
