freyasman
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If a mediator can help solve the issue, then the situation was never in any danger of getting violent in the first place.The goal is to resolve things without having to arrest someone.They don't get it; you can't negotiate a resolution to a violent, or potentially violent, conflict from a position of weakness.Because you send a mediator out first
Here's the thing ... ambulance and firefighters won't go into a potential conflict without police escort.
I'm pretty sure the skinny guy with a state college bachelors in interpersonal conflict resolution isn't going to last very long in that job.
If the person you're telling to calm down knows you can't arrest him, or beat him down, he ain't going to listen to anything you say, he's going to at best ignore you, and maybe beat you to death for not minding your own business.
The people who are coming up with these ideas have no clue about how conflict is actually managed in the real world.
And they're going to get some people hurt, and probably killed.
I don't expect you to understand but here it goes...
Sending out a mediator doesn't empty the options box. The next people to show up will arrest someone. There is no "position of weakness".
If the mediator you send out just aggravates the situation, how is that going to help?
And yes, if you don't have the legal power to arrest them, or the physical ability to hand out a beating, then you absolutely are in a position of weakness..... and everyone but you knows it.
You are just sending out ready-made victims, and you're not helping anyone.
If the mediator solves the issue; it helps
You really don't know even the most basic things about this sort of stuff, do you?