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

No, give police departments should be given more training but some increased funding should still be given to community based programs.

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.

No, but more funding should go into training police and getting rid of racisms rooted in our police forces.

This should be a blended approach. Increase social programs but not at the cost of police, until the benefits have taken effect

The government needs to smarten up and be financially responsible. This includes putting importance on both police and social programming with the goal of crime reduction. This isn't rocket science.

Funding should be given to these programs, but not necessarily pulled from police budgets. However, police budgets should be subject to yearly audits.

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 should increase so that police can be better train to deal with situations like mental health problems.

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.

Yes, but have supported partners e.g social workers for non violent calls

some funding should be taken from police but not all funding

increase funding for police and social services, as well as strengthen police training on social problems

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.

I feel that Funding should continue but the prerequisites for becoming a police officer should be more thorough.

funding should be increased to create teams on the force dedicated to mental health and crisis response

Yes for only certain topics

No, not all of it

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

Yes, mental health advocates along side the police

Train police in dealing with mental health issues when encountering the public

They should be reallocated to additional professionals to accompany the police for certain calls/emergencies

SOME funding should be redirected to other community services, yes.

Money needs to be allocating into better training, especially when it comes to mental health and learn non violent interventions

No but more funding should go to social and community based programs

Police should receive more training but the government should also be putting more money into social and community based programs.

Increase in police funding as well as Increases for mental health workers getting involved in certain situations.

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.

no, increase funding and training for de escalation tactics and address best practices for managing people in a mental health crisis

no, but their current budget should be adjusted to ensure the proper training is provided

Some funding should be taken out of the police budget and put towards better social programs

Needs to be a balance between local policing & funding social & community based programs

Police should not be defunded but spending on social programs should be increased

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

Some, but I still think funding is important to our service members. Adequate training, and more support systems for non-violent crime and mental health is a middle ground I think could help.

The programs that are not related to the police should be redirected to community based organizations

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

Yes, increase funding for other services so that police don't have to respond all the time

Funding should be added/increased for social and community based programs, but not at the expense of the police.

Yes, part of police funding should be allocated to social & community based programs based on regional requirements, supervised by non-police leadership.

There can be some reductions but as long as we are a neighbour of the USA we need an armed police force.

Both police AND social programs should receive an increase in funding and training as well as work together to create productive community solutions.

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.

I think we need police, but we should add funding towards proper mental health training

redirect some funding to social and community based programs, but do not take away all funds from the police.

Yes, but still maintain the police force

I personally have no stance on this.

Redirect a small amount

it depends if it is a high crime rate neighborhood then there should be more funding but if it is a community with less crime then I think there should be an unarmed community base to respond to no violent crimes.

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

Amalgamate the services so that police have the same training as mental health officials. Because at the same time if it’s a serious issue the non-armed mental health people could be hurt/killed. Plus extensive background checks for police officers. (Social media, etc to monitor for racist and destructive behaviour)

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

I think that it should be split more evenly, because both programs are important

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

Only partially. There are benefits to more social and community programs and less police, but not no police.

increase funding for police to get better training and smarter cops

Divided equally between the two

fund the police less but still keep them and fund the social services more

funding should be given out equally

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

No, instead the funding should be distributed better, to allow for an improvement in the training of police officers.

Yes, the police system needs to be restructured to better fit different situations

funding to be slightly reduced from police departments and re directed to other departments such as education

just a bit of funding

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

Yes, but maintain some funding for police as well as increase training.

Keep funding well balanced.

Increase training, stricter surveillance on police officers to ensure no breach in protocol.

I think that the funding should go to making police training stricter to make sure they are fair and want to actually help people.

I think that the money should be put towards harder testing to make sure that police or more properly selected and we'll carefully selected .

No, it's good as it is right now

Make sure that police are trained properly and not to immediately react with violence and instead find a peaceful solution, fire the bad ones

Increase funding for psychological departments in the police.

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

Overhaul of the police system and training.

Increase funding for police officers to gain new knowledge and training.

Some of the police's funding should be.

Direct some funding to allow certain services that are not appropriate for police to deal with.

Yes , reduce police funding in areas that don't need it and redirect it

No, work for police reform

it should go towards training them to be better in the ways that they dont harm people who dont deserve it

Yes but as long as good officers are not getting fired as a result of less funding.

i think this is a more complicated question as we need protection but there is no way to be sure if said protection will treat everyone fairly as a lot of officers abuse their power

I think funding to both the local police and social and community based programs are as equally important

Some of it should but not a total redirection

I believe police need more training, less funding.

No, increase funding to social and community based programs but keeping funding for local police departments

More funding for social and community based programs while supporting local police