Seattle social worker stabbed to death as city pushes to replace police with social workers
(www.lawenforcementtoday.com)
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important to note that this appears to be a mentally ill dude's random attack on an office worker.
NOT "we sent a social worker instead of a policeman and they died".
seattle is still retarded but the more details like this we miss the more retarded we also are.
Given that Seattle hasn't actually replaced it's police force, that it happened during normal social work is already the default assumption. No reason to think that's a "missed detail" just because it wasn't spelled out explicitly in the title.
It does still illustrate that general social workers are not trained, equipped, or selected to be able to defend themselves, and that's not going to change in a reasonable timeframe.