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  • I will say, I work ambulance for a very right wing rural community. I have done this for a number of years now.

    While I do have issues at times with our local LEO, they do a good job with not shooting my patients, or their dogs.

    They have done a good job in my community with securing the scene without escalating and then standing back and let us deal with medical/mental health crisis.

    These stories do happen to often, and there are policy changes that need to happen, but there are a significant number of communities that have law enforcement who are acting appropriately and therefore get no news coverage.


  • Confound4082toComic Strips@lemmy.worldRight to Flex Arms
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    Yeah, being a first responder really changed my perspective on a lot of “safe” areas" and how far help is.

    When you have one lone deputy in your entire county for a good portion of the night (and frequently only 2-3 cars during the day), and state is just on call, not patrolling… you can easily be 45 minutes out from LEO, that’s been a very long wait before…




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    6 months ago

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    If you can be more specific with what you are looking for, I can try to help more.