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<blockquote data-quote="witzend" data-source="post: 12464" data-attributes="member: 99"><p>This is a very interesting question. Recently there have been some very poorly handled situations between the police and mentally challenged people in our area. The <em>least</em> violent was tasering an autistic young man who had gotten out of the house at night and was holding onto one of those 1" wide plastic bits that goes into cyclone fencing to make it less see-through. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/919Mad.gif It was floppy, how could they reasonably say that they were frightened of this guy? Unfortunately, there have been several shootings, beatings and deaths in recent months. It's just awful.</p><p></p><p>Of course, the police say that they can't tell the difference between a raging difficult child and a druggie, and that there are communication problems. Yes, I suppose there are. But this implies that if they had but known that these people were autistic or schizophrenic and <em>couldn't</em> respond to audible commands, it also implies that if they <em>had</em> known, they would have handled it differently. If our difficult children had a medic alert bracelet on them, might it help? I mean, if this was a standard that we could train the police to look for?</p><p></p><p>Just a thought. These situations are abominable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="witzend, post: 12464, member: 99"] This is a very interesting question. Recently there have been some very poorly handled situations between the police and mentally challenged people in our area. The [I]least[/I] violent was tasering an autistic young man who had gotten out of the house at night and was holding onto one of those 1" wide plastic bits that goes into cyclone fencing to make it less see-through. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/919Mad.gif It was floppy, how could they reasonably say that they were frightened of this guy? Unfortunately, there have been several shootings, beatings and deaths in recent months. It's just awful. Of course, the police say that they can't tell the difference between a raging difficult child and a druggie, and that there are communication problems. Yes, I suppose there are. But this implies that if they had but known that these people were autistic or schizophrenic and [I]couldn't[/I] respond to audible commands, it also implies that if they [I]had[/I] known, they would have handled it differently. If our difficult children had a medic alert bracelet on them, might it help? I mean, if this was a standard that we could train the police to look for? Just a thought. These situations are abominable. [/QUOTE]
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