“It’s not reasonable to expect cops to be social workers and the people who direct traffic,” said Dr. Eden Almasude a psychiatrist at Yale New Haven Hospital. But cops are not social workers, Thomas Kulhawik, chief of the Norwalk Police Department, told the Police Transparency and Accountability Task Force earlier this week. “You shouldn’t assume that’s the only mental health training they get.”I don’t think we have any option but to be social workers, marriage counselors, coaches. “I don’t think we have any option but to be social workers, marriage counselors, coaches,” Peterson said. “More generally, I believe, as someone in public health, that health care workers need to sever their relationships to police and the carceral state.”… Or an investment in community mental health services?