{"id":22863,"date":"2019-11-12T04:55:39","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T09:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/?p=22863"},"modified":"2021-03-15T17:10:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T21:10:53","slug":"assaults-on-nypd-emts-are-going-up-but-mayor-has-no-real-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/assaults-on-nypd-emts-are-going-up-but-mayor-has-no-real-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Assaults on NYFD EMTS are Going Up – But Mayor has no real plan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Assaults by emotionally disturbed persons on city first responders are soaring \u2014 yet the main change City Hall\u2019s imposing is to end use of the term \u201cEDP.\u201d<\/p>

This year has seen 146 EMTs, paramedics and firefighters assaulted at work through October, vs. 129 for all of 2018, the NY Post reported Saturday. This follows a doubling over the last decade of EDP calls to 911.<\/p>

It can mean mayhem. On Oct. 25, for instance, EMT Daniel Manning suffered a nose fracture from a man he\u2019d revived in a Bronx park. EMT Darlene-Marie Miller, nine months pregnant, got shoved into a hospital desk by another \u201cclient\u201d on Nov. 1. (Her baby was unscathed; she suffered a torn labrum.)<\/p>


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Yet Mayor Bill de Blasio\u2019s big response to the mental-health crisis was a two-page press release last month ordering an end to the use of \u201cEDP\u201d and handing ThriveNYC $37 million to start training social workers to take the lead on mental-health emergencies.<\/p>

Get real, says Vincent Variale, the head of the EMTs\u2019 union: \u201cWhen you have an EDP situation, EMS and police are going to respond. They have to.\u201d<\/p>

Of course, the mayor ignored his own panel of experts in setting his new policies. Why would he listen to the city workers who actually deal with the problem?<\/p>


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