Dr. Phil McGraw
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I'll tell you anything that lifts morale with law enforcement right now.
You got to give them that anything that lifts the morale and bonds them because they got the lowest morale ever.
You know what really drives me crazy about this defunding that went on?
And of course, I think everybody's decided that was like a either really bad idea or really poorly worded idea either way.
But, listen, the last thing you want to do is try to get police officers to wear three or four different hats.
You don't want them showing up saying, okay, I want to try to be a social worker and a psychologist and defuse all of this and all โ
A police officer should show up and enforce the law.
If not, people are going to get shot and killed.
Police officers should show up and suppress illegal activity, disarm people that are a threat,
And after all that's done, then fine.
Bring in somebody that is a social worker or whatever.
But you don't want a police officer doing all of that stuff.
They're there to do one job, and that is suppress illegal behavior, disarm dangerous people, and they need to do it as quickly and efficiently as they can.
They don't want to do all that.
And they need to do that one job and do it very well.
And they don't need people in there saying, well โ