Should funding for local police departments be redirected to social and community based programs?

Yes, redirect SOME funding toward better social programs for non-violent offences.

The police should be replaced and led by uncorrupted and non racist individuals to avoid police brutality and racism, instead of playing to white supremacy.

Maybe just let an accountant comb through the police budget without threat of livelihood being compromised. I’m sure there’s plenty of fat to cut.

I think that more funding should go towards getting proper training for officers, especially psychological training because you never know when you will encounter someone in a crisis.

Police departments should be funded according to the area of the police station (crime rates, etc)

Give better training and make sure cops don’t go on power trips or are realist/sexist

Remove some funding from police, put it back into communities. I wouldn’t say replace all police but definitely agree w having an unarmed person responding to non violent calls

Funding for police should be used for increased training to transition to public servants rather than enforcers

No, but money should be spent on regulating the police and training them thoroughly.

No but we should cut funding from some budgets to fund this instead.

i think the police should be maintained while sending out advertisements for drug rehabilitation and addictions centers that help people for free

While some funding should be redirected to social and community based programs, efforts should go into the retraining of police and advocacy for non-confrontational and non-violent calls.

Continue the funding but limit it and redirect them for community needs.

the police should get more funding fo better training especially in racial bias.

Yes, but with the hope that the police departments train in a social work course.

Redirect 10 percent of the funding to social and community based programs

No, we still need police. But stricter punishments and background checks should be implemented on police for the public’s safety.

More education and more screening

Yes, mental health advocates along side the police

No.. just fix the broken mental healthcare system.

Change finding allocation: more to training and far far less to arming them and new vehicles and the like. Leftover funds towards community based responders

Not all of it but some funding yes

Increase funding and training for police departments around the country and also redirect some funding towards social and crisis based forces trained to deal with certain situations

No but change the policing system to handle non violent and violent people/situations better.

Allocate money to both community services and police instruction.

Yes, replace police with ARMED community based responders for non-violent calls

Yes, add more mental health and social service workers to their teams

They should lower funding for certain departments and increase funding to programs to solve underlying issues we need both police and programs

Redirect some funding but not all. Social workers do not get paid enough.

Not familiar enough with practice

Ignorant of this issue

Maintain their funding but divert wellness checks and suicide threats to mental health workers to relieve some workload on the officers.

No, police should not be abolished, but funding for social and community based programs should be increased, and police should be trained to better respond/be vetted more before being hired.

both should be supported

Redirect a small amount

Yes, but a local police force is still needed.

More funding should be allocated do proper mental health support can be used but not all finding

Make the police also have a psychology background/education. To better equip them to descalate the situation.

Extra funding should be directed to the police to combine police with teams of social workers and nurses. Community outreach to help find a treatment stream for persons suffering from mental health disorders

Funding for police should only go to extra training, bonuses should never be based on arrests

Divided equally between the two

More police training, crisis training and psychological checks, also hold police accountable and have bigger consequences for using lethal force unless in extreme high risk cases.

There should be a combination.

Decrease budget ,by 20 % to social programs in the communityp

Yes and No, but after a full audit is done to understand where the spending goes but there needs to be some funding still going to the police

The Police departments do not need funding for military equipment. The Police departments should receive less funding, but we do still need Police. The funding not needed for military equipment should go to community programs

I believe the police should get what ever funding they need to retrain and rework their system from stopping fight/crimes to preventing and deescalating.

I feel that we should still have a police department but our officers should require more training and schooling and taught to eliminate bias

I feel that police need more training and testing. But also they should be more restricted on thier funds.

Police reform but keep the same amount of money

Both the police and social and community based programs should be funded equally.

Keep the funding for police yet tax the rich to provide for social programs

No, police should recieve more funding to use on better training and community initiatives.

No, it should be it should be put towards better and longer more effective training for police

Social and community based programs need more funding, but I also think the police do. People want change in the police force, and they need money to do that. Hire people that actually know what they’re doing, to be properly educated, have more people that specialize in actually HELPING people.

Some of the police's funding should be.

Based on the area, funding should be different.

Have a special role in policing for officers with a health care background.

some of the money should be allocated to social workers who go along with the police to issues like domestic abuse

Increase time it takes to become a police offer and prefrom mental health evaluations

Funding should be increased for social security programs and police programs

While police should not be abolished, some funds should be redirected to social programs.

It's alright the way it is now

No, not all, but some for sure

Yes, having police is important but I believe funding in that department can be allocated in social and community-based programs.

yes and no, find a happy medium, reform the police to the extent it needs to be in order to ensure equality amongst how they treat individuals

No, increase funding and de-escalation training for police departments in higher crime rate communities, and include local mental health professionals in this training

No, increase funding and de-escalation training for police departments in higher crime rate communities, and have local mental health professionals assist in facilitating this training

Yes, but the police should not be abolished.

No, but have unarmed community-based responders for non-violent calls instead of police officers.

In stead of taking funding from local police, we should direct some money from the military to social and community based programs. While the police should be placed with more restirctions on gun use and training.

No, keep existing funding and add funding for social and community based programs.

The police system must be reformed and have subdivisions that deal in community and social based issues.

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No, increase de-escalation training for police officers and have local mental health professionals assist in this training

Yes, but only funding that is not essential. Such as the defunding of police militarization. Only that money should be redirected to social programs.

Fund the police but increase funding for social workers and utilize community responders for most calls

Increase funding for police training everywhere along with social and community based program.

No, but direct a portion of funding towards forming a partnership with local, community based mental health professionals to provide ongoing de-escalation training classes for police

yes, but only if there is still enough funding to police departments that they can still sustain themselves.

No, but direct a portion of funding towards a partnership with local, community based mental health professionals to provide mandatory, ongoing de-escalation training classes for police

No, but direct a portion of funding towards a partnership with local, community based mental health professionals to provide ongoing de-escalation training classes for police

No, but direct a portion of funding towards forming a partnership with local mental health professionals to provide ongoing de-escalation training for police which is based on the economic and social conditions of the community

No, but increase funding for and make mandatory ongoing, situational de-escalation training for police that is conducted by community based mental health professionals

No, but require and increase funding for ongoing, situational de-escalation training that is conducted by community based mental health professionals

No, but increase funding for mandatory, ongoing, situational de-escalation training that is conducted by community based mental health professionals

No, establish and fund mandatory, ongoing, situational de-escalation training for police that is conducted by community based mental health professionals

No, but there should be mandatory and ongoing de-escalation training for police conducted in partnership with local mental health professionals

Yes, redirect some funding towards working with local mental health professionals and community based social agencies for non-violent situations, and increase de-escalation training for police in urban areas

No, but funding should be provided for mandatory and ongoing de-escalation group training classes conducted by local mental health professionals for police

No, but direct some funding towards a partnership with community based mental health professionals to conduct mandatory and ongoing de-escalation group training classes for police

No, but there should be mandatory and ongoing de-escalation group training for police conducted by local mental health professionals

No, but direct a portion of funding towards a partnership with community based mental health professionals to conduct mandatory and ongoing de-escalation training classes for police

Yes, redirect some funding to local mental health professionals in order to provide and conduct mandatory, ongoing group de-escalation training classes for police

No, but fund local mental health professionals to conduct mandatory and ongoing group de-escalation training classes for police

Yes, redirect a portion of funding towards forming a partnership with local, community based mental health professionals. These professionals should conduct mandatory and ongoing de-escalation training classes for police