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To: IceShark who wrote (55598)	9/9/2000 11:41:30 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

When I took Constitutional Criminal Procedure, the professor set up a voluntary ride for one night with a police officer on the beat, just so we could see what it was like to be a cop in a confrontational situation. One thing we did on the ride I was on was go to where a crazy guy was freaking out, he wouldn't take his medication and lost it, and the cop had to subdue him, shackle him, and transport him in shackles to the psych. ward at Charity Hospital. Luckily for her, the guy wasn't too bad. I could see how the guy's behavior was making everyone around him scared, though, and the cop was definitely scared of losing control of the situation, I could see her eyes rolling just a little. I spent a lot of time around crazy people because I used to volunteer at a crisis intervention center back in the days when bad acid trips were common. Crazy people react better to soothing words than to nightsticks and guns, usually, although not always. The fact that the cop was a smallish woman may have helped in this case, he probably didn't feel threatened.