Half of what police are trained to do is violence-based. And we need people like that, for violent situations. But we don’t need that for a /TON/ of basic situations. We have armed warriors giving speeding tickets and expecting them to not be warriors. Where are the administrators who aren’t the warriors?
In that vein, there's actually an experiment in progress where cops are not always dispatched but instead a paramedic and social worker are sent. Turns out they can resolve many issues.
