“Defund the police” is a slogan that supports divesting funds from police departments and reallocating them to non-policing forms of public safety and community support, such as social services, youth services, housing, education, healthcare and other community resources.
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@9FKGKD42yrs2Y
Police departments should be funded according to the area of the police station (crime rates, etc)
@8VP6D8M4yrs4Y
Put more funding in mental health approaches and training for police officers
@8VMX5VH4yrs4Y
No, but should invest in social programs that work with police
@8VG9KRW4yrs4Y
No but change the policing system to handle non violent and violent people/situations better.
@8V563NZ4yrs4Y
Not familiar enough with practice
@8TWQGZF4yrs4Y
Maintain their funding but divert wellness checks and suicide threats to mental health workers to relieve some workload on the officers.
@8TTG8T74yrs4Y
Both are equally important. The police can help solve problems when it’s too late to turn back, but social resources can aid people in getting help and prevent them from resorting to crime in the first place.
@8THMB53New Democratic4yrs4Y
@8TGSHWT4yrs4Y
More funding should be allocated do proper mental health support can be used but not all finding
@8T8SZZ94yrs4Y
I think it all depends on crime rates in the area. Should a small town with a small population of mostly normal families have high police funding? no. Should big cities with high crime rates have high police funding? Yes.
@8T5NZR64yrs4Y
Make the police also have a psychology background/education. To better equip them to descalate the situation.
@8SPFL2C4yrs4Y
There should be a combination.
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
@8S42FF54yrs4Y
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.
@8RWT4XZ4yrs4Y
I feel that we should still have a police department but our officers should require more training and schooling and taught to eliminate bias
No, but such funding needs to be provided in addition to better de-escalation training for law enforcement
@8RBVGZD4yrs4Y
I think that there should be a redirection in some funding to support social services that would reduce the need for police to be at mental health or addictions calls
@8QXDSNQ4yrs4Y
Police reform but keep the same amount of money
No, increase funding to train police officers to specialize in social work or psychology
@8PW4NKV4yrs4Y
we should defund the police
@8PK8M6C4yrs4Y
Have a special role in policing for officers with a health care background.
@8P6BRS84yrs4Y
some of the money should be allocated to social workers who go along with the police to issues like domestic abuse
@3DSBJC33yrs3Y
No, local police departments and social and community based programs should be included in one budget.
@3TRKR473yrs3Y
No, keep existing funding and add funding for social and community based programs.
@3GZTJR25yrs5Y
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