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Troubling Police and Social Work Collaborations
From: Disarm, Defund, Dismantle
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In Troubling Police and Social Work Collaborations the authors examine the limitations of proposed reforms such as ones that argue for collaboration between police and external partners, especially social workers, in certain instances of mental health emergencies and wellness checks. The chapter argues against these reformist ideas on account of reasoning such as this could increase criminalization and securitization of in need people, and police and social worker partnerships would require more funding and resources running counter to urgent calls for defunding and dismantlement. The authors also note that, like policing, the social work profession was built on colonial, racist, and classist interventions and it has its own issues still only recently being addressed and dealt with, and thus to assume it can help reform policing appears overly optimistic.