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[gwywnnydd]

Man, this is nuts. CPS only appears in the media when they've screwed up (as a general rule. I've seen one, I think, story that covered the good part of the department), so the public view is skewed. I have friends and family that work for the department, I know they do good work. But someone screwed up big time with this one: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003814038_abuse31m.html

Let me see if I've got this straight. CPS pulls a child from his home, because of suspected abuse. And the safety plan they come up with is... to have the boy live in a trailer in the backyard of the home he's been pulled from.

What. The. FSCK.

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[levin-marks.livejournal.com]

I agree, make it so it cannot happen again. Our society is way too soft. We "Register" sex offenders but abuse like this doesn't even get jail.

I think that the simple expediant of making them choose execution or road chain gangs with NO PAROLE. Tired of the chain gang? you can always choose the injection.

[zoobytes.livejournal.com]

The detective they interviewed is right- CPS was notified, but it should have been a police investigation from the get-go, it was a serious crime to begin with & CPS doesn't go in & make arrests- the police do. One seriously mis-managed case, that one... poor kid (and my worst nightmare for T-man if anything ever happened to me)

[gwywnnydd.livejournal.com]

I agree, the police should have been notified.
I'd like to see the various departments in the region taking a consistent position on whether issues like this should be reported to A) the police emergency line, B) CPS, or C) the police non-emergency line. Because I've heard spokespeople from four different departments (state and municipal) say three different things. It's hard to know what one's local department is going to respond best to :).

[digital-geisha.livejournal.com]

Oh so do not get me started on CPS. You know two of those ass holes actually showed up at my house because "we had a report of a white man beating a black child in front of the Safeway nearby"

Okay and WTF dose that have to do with us? Anyone who sees Rahim and dose not know i am his mother would never peg him as a black child. Come to find out the man in question had black hair and the child was -very- dark. the ONLY reason they came to our house was the CPS workers were at our complex on another call and happened to see Chris pick Rahim up from the bus.

That system is broken in a very bad way and until they fix it more children are going to die.

[gwywnnydd.livejournal.com]

Well, yes, they are broken. They're also insanely over-extended, and facing overwhelming odds. And they don't pay much, so they get more than their fair share of people who *can't* get a job in their field in the private sector. The whole system needs an overhaul, but no legislator is going to risk their neck by pushing it, cause it would co$t too much, and the constituents don't want to actually *pay* to have functioning systems, they want the magical system fairies to provide one.