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.

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

Yes, reduce the police budget and allocate police evenly across the city. Put funds into stopping sex trafficking, gun violence, etc. Stop over policing some areas over others.

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.

Keep police funding the same as it is now and eliminate budget raises. Use the money that would go to raising police budgets to fund community safety and crime prevention programs.

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.

Redirect police funds for better training to prevent violence, as well as saving some funds for community based programmes

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

keep it the same and find other funds for community based programs as well.

No, funding should be increased to include alternative response methods. In GB and other countries, first responders don't have guns. Several teams intervene before armed response. And increase funding to community programs like mental health initiatives and youth counselling as prevention.

It should split but more focused on the community

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.

Keep local police forces, abolish the rcmp

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

No, not all of it

More funding to community based programs

Yes, mental health advocates along side the police

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

Reallocate funding for more desecalation training and mental health training

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

Put more funding in mental health approaches and training for police officers

Not all of it but some funding yes

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

We need people in our society that are willing to deal with violent people. More training for police on how to deal with mental health would help in my eye.

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

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.

They should increase education requirements for police and have more vetting of them as well as increase funding for community programs

No, but increase collaboration between police and public health

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.

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

Fund the police but also have a mental health unit or medical persons to be involved

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

Yes, we should Reform our police system

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.

Redirect a small amount

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

Yes, but no more than 10%.

More substantial background and mental stability checks to become a police officer.

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

There should be better balance to find the spending that reduces crime the most

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

Divided equally between the two

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

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.

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

No, but reform of police and increased accountability and funding + training to train officers to not use excessive, unneeded force.

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

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.

Keep funding well balanced.

No, it's good as it is right now

Once there's more gun control in the USA, the police should receive lower funds and have less weaponry. The lower access guns there are in the States would most likely lower the access to guns in Canada. Therefore, there wouldn't be a need to have weapons on police all the time.

Increase funding for psychological departments in the police.

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, increase funding to train police officers to specialize in social work or psychology

Overhaul of the police system and training.

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

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.

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

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.

Some of it should but not a total redirection

I believe police need more training, less funding.

Funding for local police departments should stay the same while funding for social and community-based programs should be increased.

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

Yes, but not at the expense of public safety

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

Funding should not be taken away from the police departments but community and social-based programs should be funded by the government.

Cooperation between these two sectors and more funding directed towards social and community support. Reducing funding for the police helps no one.

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 situational de-escalation training for police departments located in urban areas and higher crime rate communities

Yes, redirect some funding towards the utilization of community based responders for non-violent calls. A police officer should accompany these individuals for added protection in case the situation escalates

No, increase funding to require ongoing, mandatory de-escalation training for police departments in urban areas

No, but increase de-escalation training for police in handling non-violent situations in higher crime communities

No, require increased deescalation training for the police.

No, increase deescalation training for the police.

No, increase deescalation training for police.

No, increase funding and required time for deescalation training in all metropolitan police departments.

Yes, redirect some funds in the local police department budget to unarmed community based responders for non-violent calls

Yes, redirect some funding to unarmed community based responders for non-violent calls

Yes, redirect some funding to unarmed community based responders for non-violent calls, but also increase funding and training for police departments in higher crime rate communities

Yes, some funding should be redirected towards utilizing unarmed community responders for non-violent calls, but also increase de-escalation training for police departments in higher crime rate communities

Yes, some funding should be redirected towards utilization of unarmed community responders for non-violent calls but also increase de-escalation training for police departments in higher crime rate communities

Yes, redirect some funding towards utilizing unarmed community based responders for non-violent calls but also increase de-escalation training for police departments in higher crime rate communities

Funding should be divided between utilizing unarmed community based responders for non-violent calls and increasing de-escalation training for police departments in higher crime rate communities

Yes, redirect some funding to community based responders for non-violent calls but also increase de-escalation training for police departments in higher crime rate communities

Yes, replace police with unarmed community based responders for non-violent calls but send along a police officer for protection in case the situation escalates into violent behavior.