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

Police should instead be reviewed for abuse of power consistently and trained in non-violent de-escalation. Police should go under the same biased testing as juries do before being able "serve justice"

Funding should be given to both, not redirected. Our police budgets have continually decreased and they are unable to do their jobs as well. BUT, social and community based programs should also have increased funding.

yes depending on the city, for example the lethbridge police is a wonderful service to lethbridge that go above and beyond to help the community

No, but efforts should be made to hire more social workers, mental health specialists and addiction counsellors to complement police officers.

Increase funding to social and community based programs independent of police funding.

If it didn’t affect police training or their ability to improve and protect the community.

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

Yes, a group should be created to respond specifically to non-violent calls who have special training to handle these events. This allows officers to be utilized more effectively. This would also need to be create in tandem with increased mental health supports.

we need meantal health profesiojnals for cases such as sucicide to go with police as a seprat but the same force

Funding for better training/spread out funding to some social programs

Yes, but alongside reform for police practices.

Keep funding for police and add funding for social and community based programs

Not all of it but some funding yes

We need the police yet I believe there could more public resources available

Yes but continue to have both a force for non-violent calls and a force for more violent calls.

I’m gunna say no I believe better training ,therapy’s must be implemented along with anger management training, not everyone can wake up and wonder if they well die today. There must be retraining on when use of force is necessary. Along with any racist actions should result in dismissal and therapy’s to help that disorder along with replacement to another sector of the work force

Yes, but only a portion and with specific mandates, such as sending health workers to deal with addiction or mental health crises.

Funding should be decreased, but we still need well trained armed responders for serious crimes

No & more funding to community based programs

No, police should be supplemented with unarmed community based responders for non-violent calls. Given the drug related crime in Canada at this time we cannot afford to defund the police.

Not familiar enough with practice

We should be able to fund both

Yes, add more community base responders but still maintain a viable police presence

Not completely, but partially

Some police funding should be reduced to add mental health worker responders to certain issues that Police presently fail horribly at.

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

Police should go under further training and there should also be more social and community based programs

I believe both are needed.

police should not lose or gain any funds they should simply hire better officers and have better exams

Need funding for both police and social programs

police should work with social and community programs, funding should be used for both

It needs to be split between the police and community programs, the ratio should be determined based on crime in the area

Divert 10% of the Funding to help the Communities, and hire people from those Communities

Re-directed in some communities to more social and community based programs, and increased funding for police in higher crime rate communities