Police aren’t the problem…governments are!

VICTORIAN police were too trigger-happy and poorly equipped to deal with the mentally ill, the corruption watchdog declared yesterday, calling for drug and alcohol testing and urgent retraining of officers after a spate of fatal shootings. What about calling for better facilities for the mentally ill. A succession of state governments with their wacko ideas of closing politically incorrect Mental Asylums have put the problems on the streets. General hospitals can’t and won’t handle the criminally or dangerously insane so it’s left to poor old Constable Plod to handle the problem. His only answer to civilians, himself or his partner being in mortal danger from a mentally insane citizen is bang bang..two rounds…instant counselling and treatment. Constable Plod is traumatized by being forced to kill to do his job and the politicians have the temerity to criticize him. Not good enough.