This says she was sentenced to 1 year in jail, probated for 18months, and with stipulations that Williams pay a fee to Crime Stoppers, take a “Thinking for a Change” course, participate in a weekend work program, and write an apology letter to the City of Houston.
I'm not a native English speaker, but isn't the name of this course a rude pun ? Could you be thinking, for a change ==> you usually don't think much. Is this a correct interpretation ?
Honestly that kind of behavior makes me believe there’s something going on in her head. She totally deserves jail time but I wonder if she got psychological and/or psychiatric treatment.
She seemed to nope out completely didn't she? Whether she was in the middle of quitting or just couldn't take it anymore and quiet quit she is definitetly "not there" at that moment.
That's possible. It's also possible that she is a shitty human being who didn't feel like working. Neither of us know her personally but hanging up on 911 callers and then casually saying "I didn't feel like working" would suggest she is just a terrible person.
Granted, but she also doesn’t serve the benefit of a doubt. If she was having trouble performing her job she should have told someone and sought help. Not put countless others lives in danger. I think at that point, it’s morally ok to suspend empathy for her.
Unfortunately you can’t teach someone empathy. I’m a firm believer that these attitudes are a product of their environment and this was learned behavior from home…
Yes, but that's their whole point, I think. Some parents don't model empathy and don't help their kids learn it, and if the vital window is missed in early childhood, it's not something that can be taught later on.
If you're not given the nurturing to develop emotional and reflective empathy before about 3, you just will never have it.
You can force yourself to learn cognitive empathy, but, it's fucking hard.
A HUGE number of adults have zero cognitive empathy. It forms in preteen to early 20's. You can define political alignment completely by the lack of cognitive empathy.
Psychopaths very frequently ONLY have cognitive empathy. They will never have the capacity to have the other types.
> You can define political alignment completely by the lack of cognitive empathy.
I was believing the rest of what you wrote, but I know this is not true (at least not shown empirically), which makes me question if the other stuff is true too. There is much more variation within political alignment categories than between them.
Its both genetics, and learned behaviour. There is some genetic limit to everything, and in some people they are very low in the empathy department. Ofc her parents still failed in noticing that and helping her to find workarounds.
Even if you have genetically predispositioned super low empathy, you can be a productive and helpfull member of society, as long as you are aware of your disability and willing to work on working around it.
Your first sentence says you can't teach someone empathy, and your second sentence states that it's learned behavior from home. If it's learned behavior, then it's something that can be taught.
Prison should focus on correction and rehabilitation, not punishment. I'm not saying every single person is capable of rehabilitation, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try.
It's not something anyone expects from staff in this role, and if you were on the receiving end and complained about it it's unlikely to be believed because it's such an unusual behavior for someone in that role.
but its... thousands of calls and according to the article she did it systematically. like... how does that not get automatically flagged? i mean we opperate a small absolutely nonvital hotline. such a behaviour has been flagged within like two weeks and lead to terminations before.
ages are different. your link says 44, the video says 23. so either one source is wrong or there was two different people with the same name that screwed up
"When a public servant betrays the community's trust and breaks the law, we have a responsibility to hold them criminally accountable," Assistant District Attorney Lauren Reeder said in a statement."
My mom did this job for 35 years, worked her way up into supervision- starting from the 70s. There were always people like that. I remember her talking about it in the fucking 90s.
Wait, she worked as 911 operator for 35 years? Is that normal to work there for so long? In my country, we have 112 centre under firefighters, and they said, most people handle working dispatch max 2/3 years. From mental exhaustion. And then they usually switch positions.
Thats crazy, from experiences I heard from firefighters, most left after year or so, just because listening to people being hurt, or loved ones hurt or dead. It just takes mental toll on them, since you can't be there to help them. Just send units on their way and try to calm them and give instructions on what to do.
I assume, calling 911 works for every kind of emergency right? Medical, fire or police oriented issues. Is dispatch completly under police? Or how does it work, if you dont mind explaining please.
She did! She had a few police department jobs in that time too, very early and short. She did the job for a long time and then became a supervisor (still taking calls) and did QA for a tiny bit before she retired. That's a lot to explain so I simplified it.
She passed in 2022 at 68 and I miss her every day.
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u/_TomSupreme_ 7h ago
She should get jail time.