Difference is, if your only tool is a hammer, everything is a nail.
If you send a mental health professional to all sorts of situations, their solutions will be mental health related (medication, treatment, commitment, etc...).
If you send a cop, their solutions will involve the criminal justice system (citation, fines, arrest, jail time, etc...).
One of these has a long history of strong checks and balances and improving itself over time (latest major improvement: body cams). The other one of these is primarily fueled by giant corporate lobbies who spend a lot on every single political campaign (read: Big Pharma).
Can you guess which one is now being touted as the "new solution for all our societal ills" despite having no track record of actually being able to fix any of these ills?
If you send a mental health professional to all sorts of situations, their solutions will be mental health related (medication, treatment, commitment, etc...).
If you send a cop, their solutions will involve the criminal justice system (citation, fines, arrest, jail time, etc...).
One of these has a long history of strong checks and balances and improving itself over time (latest major improvement: body cams). The other one of these is primarily fueled by giant corporate lobbies who spend a lot on every single political campaign (read: Big Pharma).
Can you guess which one is now being touted as the "new solution for all our societal ills" despite having no track record of actually being able to fix any of these ills?