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Originally Posted by Mister Coaster
Fine, call it a delusion, a condition, a disease, a wild hair or whatever you want to label it, this guy is DANGEROUS. If he perpitrates a "crime" than the law should be able to treat this individual as someone who has broken the law. I'm not the expert, but that's the way this conservitave thinker thinks.
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I agree with that concept totally. But in many places the law doesn't. Mainly due to mental health lobbyists. As I said, I work in a Psych Hospital. A 250 lb. man could start beating the shit out of a staff member, and I'd get fired, if not arrested, if I intervened using anything other than techniques meant specifically not to injure the
patient. The downside to this? All these techniques require a minimum of 2 people to use. And that's with a smaller weaker person. For a strong patient, it can take over 6 people to restrain the person. How long do you think it can take to get the extra staff onto the unit to do this type of restraint?