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

Yes, and training should be provided to police and 911 operators to ensure that the proper programs are dispatched to ongoing incidents.

Yes and no, increase funding for local police departments to educate them but also create social and community-based programs that can deal with different types of situations.

We should not take away most of police funding. However, social programs should be correctly funded as it’s become an issue among society

No, existing funding in local police departments should be used more appropriately. More focus on mental health resources and training for officers. Social and community based programs should have boosted funding but it should not come from police departments necessarily.

Non violent ways of solving crime is indeed noble and sometimes the most positive way to solve a situations but the police also need the funding for crimes that aren;t able to be handle by means of non violence

Yes, some police funding could be redirected to community programs, but not cut altogether- police do need more training.

We need both police and increases to social work programs. Proactive care first, but reactive care if needed

Train police officers in de-escalation techniques for those citizens who suffer from mental illness. MORE intense training to be the actual PROTECTION of the community, including people of ALL WALKS OF LIFE.

We should be training our police better and take some funds to redirect to social and community based programs

Redirect excess money to nurse officer pairs to be sent to nonviolent/mental health calls or for welfare checks

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.

Why can't we have both? For crimes such as robbery, murder, etc we have police and for rehabilitation we use the social and community based programs.

Police and these programs should both be funded, if this comes out of local police budget that’s fine by me

I think we should still keep funding the police but to provide better education within the police force and to do background checks on each officer recruited due to the rising increase of racial prejudice.

money shouldn't be redirect from the police, but it should be found in other places to be give to socal and community based programs.

No, but stricter punishments for those who violate and racial profile needs to be established. They shouldn't be allowed to respond so violently.

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

I believe that police should be funded into training- allowing police to learn asl and educated more on citizens needs are a must into becoming a policeman.

Yes, but split the police into different departments that handle different types of violations (e.x: Highway patrol)

I think that we should lower the funding for police slightly and put more money towards rehabilitaion, counseling, etc so we have fewer criminals.

I believe some funds should be redirected towards local social programs but I understand and value the importance of police as well as Community based programs.

no, current funding should be used for teaching about mental health issues in the people as well as de-escalating situations and non-violent tactics

I think funding for local police departments can funnel some of it into properly educating and training their officers on things such as crisis intervention, or dealing with a high stress situation involving an individual with mental health issues.

Police should have more extensive training and be more involved with their community and fostering a sense of community

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

Funds can be redirected while also giving more training to the officers to handle certain situations better

not a massive amount, but they probably have a little more money than they need.

Decrease certain amount but still have funds for them as to provide for a better training and longer training hours and for better background checks for them.

Invest in services for mental illness and homelessness, but keep police in place

No, both are required

Obviously decrease police funds but also rework the entirety of the police system. It heavily criminalizes people of colour and there should be harsher punishments when cops break the law.

Yes and No. Police training should be funded more to teach them how to properly handle certain situations as well as programs that involve the community to better the citizens and the police, programs to reduce crime and that tackle the actual problem that causes crime.

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

Yes and no , Funding Should be increased for both

Put more funding into mental health training and racial bias training for police

They should maybe split the funding. Example: if the Police if funded $3 000 000, the Police should get maybe $1 500 000 - $2 000 000, and the social and community based programs should get $1 000 000 - $1 500 000.

Use a portion of the funding to go towards social and community programs

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

Policing does not require all the money they have. Some departments can be defunded to allow for better training, better prisons, whatever they so choose it go for.

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.

No, increase funding and training for police departments and work with communities to rebuild mutual trust. Police forces remain essential to combat crime, especially in high crime rate communities.

Law enforcement should be better trained to handle Social non-violent calls, and have more responsibility /accountability for their actions.

Have police and community based responders available for non-violent calls

Partial funding cuts to police, putting the cut budget to social programs. Only done if the police do not need the funding to operate properly (3rd party examination to validate claims of operability).

Funding should be increased but not taken out of community based programs

It should be dependent on the crime rates of a region and the nature of most of these crimes.

Yes, and reform the police to include and prioritize deescalation, non-discriminatory practices, anti-corruption practices, social aid assistance.

Yes, but with limited, not no, spending

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

more funding for social comunity programs but still some police funding

Maybe, and reduce traditional police officers with peace officers instead who are part of the community and not law enforcers

Some funding should be shifted to social and community based programs (not all).

No, but they should train the police better and be strict on how the police react in the situation and not have any bias.

I think that there should be more funding for the police department but there should also be more funding for places such as drug awareness centres, womens centres etc.

both should be equally funded and supported.

Decrease the funding a little

I feel as though both is important.

yes, we should make police training better so that police brutality is less of an issue, because right now we have to deal with way to much violence from the people who are supposed to be protecting us.

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

Yes, some funding should be directed to social and community based programs but the police should not be abolished

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

the police should still have funding but more funds should be focused on the community and reduce crime rates.

The funding should be balance for both police and social programs

I am happy with the current amount of spending.

If the the funds to the police can go towards retraining them to act in a more fair direct manner especially in light of the BLM movement then the funds should remain with the police, however if that will not be done then the funds should go to community outreach programs which aim to end some of the causes of crime.

Funding should be determined by crime rates, less in lower rates and more in higher rates.

no but there should be more funding for social and community based programs

Yes, and restructure the police system.

No, not all of it

Yes, but add social education programs to help them better navigate difficult interactions without resorting to physical restraint/ means unless absolutely necessary.

Yes, however it still needs funding and the training to become a cop must include training to deal with mentally ill and teach those who would like to be in the force how to deal with racial tensions and not be biased based on skin colour

Retrain the police

Don’t defund but train them and screen people better before getting into a position of power

The police should still be funded but there should be room to fund social and community based programs for non violent calls

Part of the funding should be redirected but the funding allocated to the police should be used to focus on de-escalation training, especially in higher-risk areas

More education and more screening

it can be beneficial but can also cause added problems so the funding shouldn’t be completely redirected but some can be redirected

No, make stricter guidelines on how cops should act

fairly split

Reallocate funding for more desecalation training and mental health training

Split half and half.

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

Give additional funds to social and community based programs rather than redirecting it from other areas within the department

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

Social and community based programs should be apart of local police departments

keeping policing funding is important as to not trigger corruption in the system, but cutting unnecessary funding and redirecting it would be key.

Police funding should be slightly reduced to provide funding for other programs.

Relocate partial funding towards unarmed community responders such as social workers and clinicians

I believe both should be funded equally

There should be more police training around social issues and more money to put into social programs but our police force is still need the funding at this time.

Reduce funding for paramilitary equipment and vehicles and redirect funds to trained community based responders for things like mental health calls, etc.

i think that they need to increase funding for training towards different things like how to respond to mental health related issues and how to respond to other issues which involve different reactions towards the matter .

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