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.

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

do not cut the funding for police but create less harmful responders for 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.

They should each be their own thing

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

they should be trained on how to respect

Yes for only certain topics

No, redirect funding in police to train for de-escalation and other types of training

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

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

They should work collaboratively together.

Not fully redirected, but more money should be going to community, but also still some going to police

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

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

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

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.

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 some funding to social and community based programs, but do not take away all funds from the police.

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

Yes, and local police forces should hire community based groups as consultants

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.

Neither. Just keep the police doing what they do, but don't increase funding.

I think it all depends on crime rates in the area. Should a small town with a small population of mostly normal families have high police funding? no. Should big cities with high crime rates have high police funding? Yes.

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

I think that it should be split more evenly, because both programs are important

yes, But not all funding just a portion.

no, the money should be equally distributed.

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.

Yes and No, but after a full audit is done to understand where the spending goes but there needs to be some funding still going to the police

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

Some funding for police but some could be switched to community matters etc

Audits need to happen in order to make sure funds are allocated properly

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

Police reform but keep the same amount of money

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, 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.

No, work for police reform

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

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

in between, yes the police should have more funding and more training but also have highly interviewed volunteers for lower crimes.

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.

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

No, not all, but some for sure

Maintain enforcement budgets but reinvest community liaison budgets and services to health care and social services

Reallocate the funds to other emergency responders

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)

I believe less money should be provided and instead used for a community response team

I don't think we should completely defund the police but we should defenitely direct more money to social and community based programs.

No, don't take money from the police. They are a necessity in every community. Invest in social and community based programs that promote rehabilitation, support and a "step-up" program that helps citizens become gradually more independent self reliant members of society. Create more social resources for mental health. With time, well structured social programs will naturally result in decreased crime.

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

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.