{"id":435653,"date":"2025-12-09T13:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T13:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/435653\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T13:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T13:22:10","slug":"authorities-faulted-for-handling-of-interstate-5-shutdown-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/435653\/","title":{"rendered":"Authorities faulted for handling of Interstate 5 shutdown \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re \u201cInterstate 5 reopens after man threatening to jump from overpass is taken into custody\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2025\/12\/05\/northbound-interstate-5-closed-due-to-person-threatening-to-jump-from-del-mar-heights-overpass\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dec. 6<\/a>):\u00a0As someone caught in Friday\u2019s freeway shutdown, and with full sympathy for the individual experiencing an acute mental health crisis, I believe the city and our regional police and fire departments should reassess protocols for these situations.<\/p>\n<p>For eight hours, all major northbound routes were paralyzed, causing thousands to miss flights, appointments, events and business obligations. While every life deserves care and dignity, it is reasonable to ask whether one person\u2019s crisis should bring an entire region to a standstill. After an appropriate period of attempted de-escalation, more timely intervention with safe, nonlethal measures may have been warranted to reopen critical transportation corridors.<\/p>\n<p>This incident highlights the need to balance compassionate response with the broader community\u2019s well-being and to ensure clearer, more decisive guidelines for future emergencies.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeffrey Luban, Carlsbad<\/p>\n<p>The person to evaluate over mental health should be the person in charge of that mess.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Richard Harmetz, San Diego<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cInterstate 5 reopens after man threatening to jump from overpass is taken into custody\u201d (Dec. 6):\u00a0As someone&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":435654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,7281,1269,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-435653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-letters-to-the-editor","12":"tag-opinion","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115689825579036104","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}