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From YouTube: Board Wrap-Up: Police retention & mental health issues
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A wrap-up of decisions made at Arlington County Government’s September 2021 Board meeting.
A
B
That
was
actually,
I
think
I
said
it
at
the
diocese.
That
was
the
most
sobering
report.
I
got,
I
think,
in
my
I've
been
doing
this
about
a
quarter
century,
schools
and
and
now
here
and
it
it's
the
phrase,
it's
interesting
because
we
just
talked
about
going
from
crisis
to
chronic,
and
this
actually
was
a
chronic
condition.
That
has
become
a
crisis
and
that's
what
the
manager
was
talking
to
us
about.
B
What
and
the
issue
kind
of
that
precipitated
the
crisis,
if
you
will
is
the
state
moving
to
they
closed
a
number
of
the
mental
health
hospitals,
and
when
people
are
in
mental
health
crisis,
they
need
to
be
in
a
hospital
and
suddenly
there's
no
hospital
for
them,
and
we
don't.
B
We
have
been
understaffed
with
our
mental
health,
the
folks
that
work
in
mental
health
in
crisis
care,
we've
been
down
a
number
of
staff
and
all
of
a
sudden
we
had
the
the
need
you
know,
went,
went
greatly,
went
up
and
we
were
still
struggling
just
to
meet
the
need
before
and
suddenly
when
somebody's
in
crisis.
They
need
to
be
in
hospital
so
that
virginia
hospital
center,
which
is
at
least
there's
a
hospital
for
them.
B
The
police
have
to
often
stay
with
that
person
until
they
get
actually
admitted
so
police
for
12
hours,
staying
with
a
patient
at
the
hospital,
and
we
are
down
on
our
police
as
well,
and
that
gets
into
a
lot
of
different
situations.
I'll
matt.
Let
you
see
it
I
the
way
I
see
it
overall.
Is
it
right
now
our
caring
professions
have
been
underpaid:
teachers,
nurses,
child
care,
police,
mental
health
professionals,
they've
been
underpaid
for
a
long
time.
B
B
Most
essential
workers
yeah
and
we're
in
a
real
transition
time,
and
this
really
came
to
the
fore
at
that
at
our
meeting.
So
I
don't.
C
And
I
know
we
each
felt
it
personally
as
as
a
critical
moment
and
their
the
manager
county
manager
came
and
described
the
challenge
and
described
that
their
retention
issues
with
our
police
department
and
our
mental
health
counselors
and
and
supports.
C
So
what
we
did
is
is
ask
him
to,
over
the
coming
weeks
and
month,
he's
going
to
come
back
with
a
proposal
that
will
be
some
significant
resources
on
retention,
so
we're
thinking
this
is
more
than
a
million
at
least
could
be
up
to
3
million
to
really
help
with
retention
for
our
police,
our
mental
health
providers-
and
it
was
made
so
clear
by
our
lead
staff,
chief
pen,
department
of
human
services,
director
anita
friedman,
and
we
also
heard
from
others.
But
this
is
one
where
the
whole
board
said
we
have
to
move
forward.
B
And
I
think
also
which
we
try
to
emphasize
we're
still
meeting
the
the
critical
needs
and
the
police
are
still
stepping
up.
But
there's
a
lot
of
nice
to
do
is
that
in
the
long
run,
make
a
huge
difference
that
we're
having
to
probably
cut
back
on,
and
we
will
get
through
this.
I
I'm
sure
that
we
will
but
we're
going
to
have
to
change
a
little
bit.
How
we're,
how
we're
funding
things
and
what
we're
doing.