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Just has to be someplace up there that does Tofu Palace breakfast, your town is famous as a foodie mecca
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There's food downtown, but you can't sit on a hay bale under a tree to eat it.
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The faire looks like just a average weekend on the Venice beach
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Burning Man with shade.
Tim Pool's going on about Minneapolis having to pay for their own failings. It reminded me about the calls for social workers walking point for the police.
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the Bummer Squad. I was working at White Bird Clinic in 1972 (building maintenance). Here's a recent article (the Register Guard is behind a[n email] paywall):
thecoastnews.com/protests-bring-alternatives-to-fore-in-police-reform-debate/
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A program that has garnered national attention in recent weeks is White Bird Clinic’s CAHOOTS (Crisis Assistance Helping Out On The Streets), a crisis intervention program based in Eugene, Ore.
Originating from the larger counterculture movement in the 1960s, the founders of White Bird did not trust the police and wanted to provide a free, humanistic and compassionate health service to residents.
Kimber Hawes, agency outreach manager at CAHOOTS since 2015, said shortly after opening a crisis line, the clinic established its mobile response team, known locally as the “Bummer Squad.”
Teams were dispatched to nonviolent situations in used vans, providing assistance to people suffering from medical and mental health emergencies in Eugene and neighboring Springfield, responding to approximately 23,000 calls between both cities in 2018.
The success rate caught the attention of the Eugene Police Department, which elected to fund a partnership with CAHOOTS instead of hiring additional police officers.
Since then, the nonprofit has established 30 partnerships in the area, including several school districts, public transportation agencies, hospitals and drug addiction treatment facilities.
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Kimber Hawes drives a CAHOOTS van during an evening shift. The gently-used vehicles responding to non-emergency requests for assistance were known locally as the “Bummer Squad.” Photo courtesy of CAHOOTS
Hawes said the Eugene Police officers attend Crisis Intervention Training, hearing from different community groups and learning de-escalation tactics and how to best utilize services such as CAHOOTS.
“Most of the cops in Eugene are open to that feedback and seek it out,” Hawes said.
According to Eugene newspaper The Register Guard, officials from nearly 20 cities — including Austin, Chicago, Oakland, Denver, New York City and Portland — have reached out to learn more about CAHOOTS.
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From the White Bird and the Hoedads to Arcimoto, Eugene has been about 5 years ahead of California.