“Defund the police” is a slogan that supports divesting funds from police departments and reallocating them to non-policing forms of public safety and community support, such as social services, youth services, housing, education, healthcare and other community resources.
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No, increase training and increase funding for social and community based programs
@8Q2GXXR4yrs4Y
Increasing training = increasing funding for police. Most people will say decrease government debt, but when they are asked if they want to decrease funding on a certain area, they always say no, keep it. It's important that we have both, and both are severely underfunded. But we are going to have to make some sacrifices if we want government spending to be sustainable. So we either get more training and bodycams for cops while reducing the number of cops, their wages or the quality of their firearms, vehicles or uniforms, or we get more mental health units while defunding the police on… Read more
Yes, and more extensive training for officers in de escalation and cooperation with said community services
Yes and No. I believe in small defunding to the police force to be put into place for community support. But also believe we need a police force.
Yes more social programs but more training, making our police more versatile than force in any situation. More training, less force.
It totally depends on the jurisdiction in question. Allocating funding to social programs matters, it can come from police budgets, but I don’t associate them closely.
No, increase standards/entry requirement of police education to focus more on sources of criminality
not all funding should go to community. Some should be kept for the police and the rest can be used for underdeveloped area
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.
Increase funding to social and community based programs independent of police funding.
No but we should cut funding from some budgets to fund this instead.
No, rather those changes should occur directly in police departments, e.g training officers on mental health crisis and hiring specialized crisis workers who respond with police.
The police funding should remain the same or decrease a little, but social and community based programs should be more focused on and increased in spending.
Yes and No. We need more funding for community programs but we cannot deduce that from the hard working Police departments who have been working so hard over the past 2 years
Redirect 10 percent of the funding to social and community based programs
Police should go to school for longer than 6 months
split it police 65 and programs 35
Expand police services to include social workers.
Have a social work/social service work department within the police that way they are the ones that respond to certain calls and they have both police and sociaal work training
Yes, but abolish suspension with pay for officer misconduct.
No for now but no one brought another alternative to the police
Yes, but keep the police for more serious situations
No, funding should be redirected to training police officers in defusing situations and not profiling by colour, gender, or age.
Some but not all funding should be redirected to mental health professionals or community responders for non-violent calls.
i feel police should be trained for psychology and mental health to prevent more police brutality in the population.
Yes, but we still need police.
add more funding and training for police as well as add mental-health-trained responders for non-violent crimes needing attention.
No, rebalance the current budget to include more training in mental health and dealing with the public in stressful situations in a non lethal matter
I believe the police are an important staple in community safety, however i believe that SOME of their funding should be funneled into social and community initiatives.
No, but have community based responders work along side police for non-violent and mental health calls
Funding should be allocated for social service programs to work alongside police.
No, there should be separate funding for community based programs and the police should stay as they are
I believe that funding should go to both police departments and proper training of police officers AND social and community based programs.
Increase funding for retraining and new processes for the "new" year. Policing is old school. Its a new world!
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
no, but add a group of people to respond to non criminal activities
i do not have a stance on this issue
Only partially. There are benefits to more social and community programs and less police, but not no police.
i think that we should do more intense training.
Allocate funding for both. Police need to be more educated in dealing with people with mental health problems. People with mental health problems deserve the opportunity to overcome their mental health issues.
Provide mental health support to police and new training. Unarmed police or responders should be dispatched for non violent calls
I'm on the fence with this one
Some police funding, especially for paramilitary equipment, should be redirected to social and community programs, along with better education for first responders and additional alternatives to jail for non-violent or ill people (e.g. drunk, overdosed, psychological distress, etc)
Policing is a highly complex job. Entrance requirements should be raised and policing should be at least a bachelor's degree course covering all aspects of the occupation.
I think police should be better trained, and move away from violent respondings.
Yes, but still keep the police as well as the social and community based programs
Reduce the police funding partially (maximum by 5%) to fund specialists who can deal with non-violent calls in a better way than the police.
No, increase funding that specifically goes towards no violent training methods
a portion of yes, in dealing with mental health and racial inequality training needs to be increased and change must occur.
No, but divert a portion of police budgets towards accompanying unarmed community based responders for non-violent calls.
Not about making a choice between the two and having them work in tandem together
Yes, and also provide proper training with every couple of years
@4MW5VJW4yrs4Y
Keep funding the same, increase funding for police training especially in higher crime rate communities and replace police with unarmed community based responders for non-violent calls
@8MR6ZZG4yrs4Y
The police should be reformed
@8LXB5GL4yrs4Y
I don’t think that defunding the police is the right choice but I think the should follow the same rules a regular citizen does and should go through more years of training.
@8GGZQTR5yrs5Y
There should not be a significant amount of funding, but just enough for the police to do their job and nothing more
@8FJK7XV5yrs5Y
No, put the current funding toward better mental health services and better police training.
@8XFNL5B3yrs3Y
This one is kind of tricky for me. I think that police should be trained more so they know what to do in more situations. Like what to do differently when a white cop is approaching a person of color. I do think that wee need more social community based programs though.
@8ZRKB483yrs3Y
No, redirect other money to social and community based programs.
@88SWF884yrs4Y
Tax reform for both of these to have more funding.
@8Q5NGWK4yrs4Y
Lower funding for police departments and redirect the difference to community based programs.
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