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.

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

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

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.

The funds should be split between police and other groups that would focus on deescalating and assisting with violent mental health issues.

Yes, mental health advocates along side the police

Increase funding to help officers be better through education and sensitivity training

Not all of it but some funding yes

No, funding for police should include de-esclation, and a focus on mental stress health

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.

police should have access to more training and social workers and addiction counsellors should be on site if needed.

Allocate money to both community services and police instruction.

Not familiar enough with practice

No, there should be an appropriate share amongst social programs that decrease crime and police should have increased funding for proper equipment and advanced psychological and situational training

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.

both should be supported

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

Yes, but still maintain the police force

I think it should be evenly distrubuted

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

No, matin police funding and fund social and community based programs

I think it the police should reformed instead of defunded

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

Funding should be allocated towards training against the overuse of force.

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

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

I think the police are needed but should have extensive moral training.

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

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.

Community policing so the police know the people around them, hence lowering the danger involved with being stopped by police

No, we should increase training in higher crime rate communities. Ones with lower rates should have a slight decrease

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

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

funding should be directed towards educating police on human behaviour and rehabilitation for prisoners

Leave the police alone and increase social programs

This is a good idea, but we should not get rid of the police completely. We should be helping vulnerable people to not gravitate towards criminal activity in the first place and help them get support.

I think it should be cut but not drastically, the amount of funding for police departments and social programs should be similar

Yes, and increase regulation and training of police

No, but reallocate funds into more training for how to handle mental health issues.

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

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.

In theory this could work, however I'm more in favor of and increase in funding and better training. In some scenarios the police force may be too corrupt and may need to be completely disbanded and rebuilt.

It depends. We need specially trained police officers for specific scenarios. We also need racial-bias training.

Yes, but maintain enough funding for better training

Yes, but only from major cities.

Yes, but the police should not be abolished.

No, but we should end qualified immunity and defund their unions.

The police department should be given less funding, and have a remodeled system that requires more training and knowledge of drugs, mental illness, and other issues that are similar. Police should also not be allowed to use a gun unless completely necessary and should be charged if they wrongfully kill a person when it could be avoided

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

No, but increase the funding for social and community-based programs and hire a new police force that handles cases equally regardless of race, instead of being more aggressive with Blacks.

No. Add funding for unarmed community-based first-responders to support community safety.

Yes, and reform police departments to prevent further discrimination

Yes, but maintain some funding for better training