First, what would be the purpose and second why two years? Drafted?

I can personally see the value for those in social work and counseling who will being doing some sort of direct crisis work where deescalation skills can be applied across a multitude of scenarios outside of the police force. I fail to understand why it should be two years instead of a year or even a rotation of six months during internship year. I am not sure if your statement is similar to the idea that all college graduates (or was it high school graduates) should have some military experience before joining the workforce.

A friend’s son Mark is a Green Beret medic, and did did training at inner city ERs in Florida. The comment was that medical personnel were always happy to have them (Green Beret trainees) around because although they did not look the part they had no problem dealing with aggressive out of control civilians and patients.

I’m late to this party (catching up after working overtime for a week and a half), but here’s a story for you.

I live in West Seattle on a very multi-ethnic street. At a neighborhood watch meeting a few years ago, some of the residents complained about noise from the 20-something party house in the middle of the block. The police officer in attendance told us that we should always call them for noise complaints and under no circumstances attempt to go talk to the partiers ourselves.

It’s hard to take the position “you shouldn’t be calling the police for every last little thing” when that is exactly what the police are telling you to do.

John Tyler observes, “You will be hard pressed to find folks who are so politically naive – to the point of stupidity – as Seattle folks.”
John, I have a brother in Seattle, a shrink, married to a psychiatric nurse. They read the NYT, The Atlantic, New Yorker, NY Review of Books. Maybe Mother Jones also. They would vomit if I gave them a copy of the Claremont Review. He refused my Christmas gift of Amity Shlaes’ book on the Great Depression because it was “too ideological”. Neither is politically “naive”. They are grotesquely biased; it is a failure of reality testing, in shrink lingo. Their entire social circle thinks the same; I’ve been there many times, seen many people. Friends of their grown kids are mostly unemployed, all college grads, and all have enough to get by, from their parents. They are drones, highly secular. Church? What’s that?
They are simply clams of a higher social order, sucking in a lot of trash, clamming shut at the slightest tremor or sound.

If something can’t keep on going up forever, it won’t. Seattle will crash and burn, self-immolate. It is one of the whitest cities in the USA (5% black), and the whites in power are telling their fellow whites that whiteness is bad, inherently racist.
Of course, Seattle does many bizarre things. Based on its official homeless count, it spends $100K per homeless in the city budget.

We don’t have sh*t like CHOP in my Deep South town, though it is 30% black.

This is one thing, at least, which is within our power. A self-governing society requires high quality citizens. We can all work on being high quality citizens.
Be politically active and vote.
Keep learning throughout your life.
Keep acquiring skills.
Watch for chances to help family members, neighbors, the weak and powerless.
Notice and praise others who take time to do the right thing …

This person actually said the the CHOP protest in Seattle, as envisioned by BLM, was supposed to be peaceful,, but the anarchists took over and created the mayhem and violence, etc. That is, it was not the fault of BLM.

Wow; how much of a moron must one be to think that BLM was a peaceful organization?
Unfortunately for the USA, this acquaintance of mine votes.

I lived in the Seattle area for about 25 years. You will be hard pressed to find folks who are so politically naive – to the point of stupidity – as Seattle folks.

Just watch; they will re-elect their governor and elect a mayor that is as far left or further left than that fruit cake Durkan.

To repeat for the millionth time; the greatest threat a representative democracy faces is an electorate that votes for a national suicide.

PS: I don’t live in Seattle.