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  1. 1. you'd allow the cops

    • to lock up kids in both situations
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    • only lock up the kid being stalked, first situation forbid the cops to lock up the kid till cps arrive
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    • lock up the kid in first situation till cps arrive, provide the kid being stalked with police protection and remove to a faraway place in secrecy
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    • forbid cops to lock up kids in both situations, and provide police protection and a safe house instead.
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I posted this question before, but then I learned it was my mistake: minor victims of abuse can only be locked up if they are runaways or acting in a way that will endanger them or others. Locking up a kid just because he's a victim of abuse is illegal.

However, roughly half of those who answered the poll voted it's ok to lock up a kid. Now I wonder if it was because they meant a runaway or otherwise troublemaker kid. This left me curious to know how people feel, what people want.

 

so here's a new poll: if a kid is NOT a runaway, not out of control, but one of those nice kids who go to school and does what he's told. in what situation would you allow the cops to lock him up.

 

if he's being abused at home, would you allow the cops to lock him in a holding cell, alone, all by himself in the police station or jail, until children services arrive. let's say in a rural area where cps will take four hours to arrive.

 

or if someone's stalking him and cant be caught because he's ellusive. protective custody in a cell, locked up, alone.

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Locking up anybody at all should be treated as a last resort. If they pose a genuine threat to themselves or to others (as determined by suitably qualified professionals) they need to be kept in a secure environment, but by that I don't mean being locked in a featureless cell. This will exacerbate any mental health issues they may be suffering from. There are better, more civilised and humane ways of dealing with children who are 'difficult' - for whatever reason. You've only to look at how things are being done in Europe.

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Locking up anybody at all should be treated as a last resort. If they pose a genuine threat to themselves or to others (as determined by suitably qualified professionals) they need to be kept in a secure environment, but by that I don't mean being locked in a featureless cell. This will exacerbate any mental health issues they may be suffering from. There are better, more civilised and humane ways of dealing with children who are 'difficult' - for whatever reason. You've only to look at how things are being done in Europe.

 

Locking up anybody at all should be treated as a last resort. If they pose a genuine threat to themselves or to others (as determined by suitably qualified professionals) they need to be kept in a secure environment, but by that I don't mean being locked in a featureless cell. This will exacerbate any mental health issues they may be suffering from. There are better, more civilised and humane ways of dealing with children who are 'difficult' - for whatever reason. You've only to look at how things are being done in Europe.

 

if last resort means if the kid is a danger to himself or others, that's understandable. but if "last resort" means they cant find the kid a home or a shelter in the area, and the cops are too lazy to just put the kid in the back of a police car and drive to the nearest large city where they can put the kid in cps office, and the kid is locked up in a cell even for a few hours because of the cops' laziness, that's unforgivable. i'd lock up the cop till they cough up a better solution if they're lazy. i'd cuff their hands around the bars till they agree to jump in the car right there and then and drive the kid to cps, that, or let him wait in the break room in the police station instead of a cell.

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