A bill in the New York state Legislature would implement new standards for Child Protective Services. The bill requires CPS workers to get a court order and inform parents and caregivers of their rights before searching homes. A ProPublica/N-B-C News investigation found New York City s Administration of Child Service has a warrant less than 0.2 percent of the time it conducts searches. .
If you measure in terms of the power to coerce, surveil, and inflict lasting harm, social workers are, thanks to the nature of the job, cops by another name.