Subj : Re: Bbsing
To   : MIKE POWELL
From : phigan
Date : Mon Feb 09 2026 07:08:36

  Re: Re: Bbsing
  By: MIKE POWELL to POINDEXTER FORTRAN on Thu Feb 05 2026 08:30 am

 > Somewhat related but, for a while, here in Kentucky they would send out
 > social workers to do some of these things because they are supposedly
 > better equipped.  The sad reality of doing so is that some of the people
 > they were calling on are, or turn, violent.  After some of the social
 > workers got injured/murdered, they stopped doing that as they realized
 > the police are better equipped at dealing with them.

Over here the same thing happened.. They send out social workers but sometimes
they get attacked. The solution? Give the social workers guns, of course :). So
now the DES office here has a nice big armory stocked for ... people trained on
other matters.

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