Don’t get me wrong. I think every single one of our first responders are understaffed and mostly underpaid. Cops, paramedics, firefighters, social workers, all of em. This is absolutely one of those cases though that short of there being metal detectors and/or people wanding spectators on entry, jack shit you could do. The public at large hates the fact that some things just straight up aren’t preventable. Even more so with gun culture in the US.

People hate feeling like they live in a prison. The solution isn’t more detectors and police. The solution is more chances for the poorest among us to find gainful employment. Social welfare programs that let those who can’t work great jobs or fell on shitty times lift themselves back up and feel like they’re doing something. It’s spending money on Crisis Intervention workers so they can go to those mental health calls instead of sending someone who just had to pull dead bodies out of a car wreck.

I work pretty closely with all of them in my field. People complain about cops not having community outreach but all you hear over the scanner is them going from one call to another, non-stop. If you’re in a suburb or larger, there’s ZERO people on traffic duty too. It’s a thankless job most of the time, one that traumatizes you almost weekly, and now people have turned on them HARD compared to when I grew up.

Any time we try to work on the above, Republicans shoot it down even if they ended up being the ones who proposed it lol.