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

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.

No, but money going into the police department should be used to promote equality under the law, via trainings ect.

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.

Part of it could be for funding local police departments, but some of it could also be used for community based programs.

I believe there should be an even split of funding for both police departments and social community based programs, as you could still keep the communities safe when necessary but not always responding armed authority.

I think that we should have funding for programs for at risk youth but, we should have better training for high crime areas.

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

Depends on the area but yes cut some of their funding.

do not cut the funding for police but create less harmful responders for non violent calls

They should each be their own thing

some funding should be taken from police but not all funding

the police should get more funding fo better training especially in racial bias.

Better training for police and use of community bases programs

they should be trained on how to respect

Yes for only certain topics

some of the funding should go to social and community based programs

Police need more comprehensive training AND we need more money for social programs.

No.. just fix the broken mental healthcare system.

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

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

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

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

Yes, add more mental health and social service workers to their teams

They should lower funding for certain departments and increase funding to programs to solve underlying issues we need both police and programs

More funding should be sent to community based programs but also towards training the police

Yes, and reform the police system

Yes it should be redirected. But also training and the intake process should be changed to determine people's views on things. Helping to limit and abolish the amount of racists and sexists in the force.

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 should be supported

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

I believe police should not carry guns or be allowed to physically abuse anyone is any way

Redirect a small amount

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

There should be a remodeling of current police practices and standards with an emphasis on removing an 'us vs them' mentality and culture within police forces as well as a demilitarisation of police forces. Funds from military style equipment for police forces aught to be spent on community based social programs.

I think it the police should reformed instead of defunded

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)

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

increase funding for police to get better training and smarter cops

Depends on where the money is being redirected to, and which is more important.

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.

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.

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

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 we should still have a police department but our officers should require more training and schooling and taught to eliminate bias

Support both police training and community organizations and have them work together wherever possible

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

Keep funding well balanced.

Police reform but keep the same amount of money

Both the police and social and community based programs should be funded equally.

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.

No, but only if the funding is needed to keep a police department.

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.

Based on the area, funding should be different.

No, work for police reform

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

For certain issues, such as mental health.

Increase time it takes to become a police offer and prefrom mental health evaluations

Funding should be increased for social security programs and police programs

Keep current funding for police but find funding to increase social programs.

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

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

Yes, but only some of the police budget should go towards social and community based programs

No, not all, but some for sure

Yes, having police is important but I believe funding in that department can be allocated in social and community-based programs.

Yes, replace armed police with unarmed police to non-violent calls.

No, diversify police training and programming to work within and deal with issues within the social and community climate. (ie. Mental health, public education,etc)

No, and decrease funding for police

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 the police should not be abolished.

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

Yes, but only funding that is not essential. Such as the defunding of police militarization. Only that money should be redirected to social programs.