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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

more funding for social comunity programs but still some police funding

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.

Decrease the funding a little

I feel as though both is important.

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

Increase the required training for police officers, and reduce the responsibility that police officers have (the police shouldn't be dealing with mental health calls, rather people with training with dealing with people suffering from mental health issues should respond).

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

The funding should be balance for both police and social programs

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.

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

Retrain the police

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

Reallocate funding for more desecalation training and mental health training

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

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.

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

Community programs should exist more/have more funding. Has nothing to do with police.

Yes, and replace police with social workers for non-violent calls

Additional funding and training to add skill social workers to partner with police on non- crime related matters that require both police and SW

Some, maybe.

Police and social workers should work side by side on calls to ensure there is someone present who knows how to best handle the situation.

Increase funding in racial situations and give proper training and educate local police departments on racism as well as provide more social and community based programs

Maintain police departments and ensure funding for social programs as well

Just do like Spike Lee and do the right thing

A combined approach. Fund the police and increase training for police departments in higher crime rate communities AS WELL AS employ and utilize unarmed community based responders for non-violent calls. Have them work hand in hand

No but invest more in training and increase accountability

Reduce funding and redirect some to community based programs

it depends on the severity of crime in the area and what the funds would go towards

Funding for both would be the best and if it was the local police departments spear heading the social and community based programs it would be much better for bonding purposes as well.

No, but we need to add paramedics with mental health/emergency mental health training to every shift.

No but provide more mandatory training

No, but the entire policing system should be restructured.

Reallocate funds for better training and support for police including mental support and support from medical professionals on scene when dealing with mentally ill people.

police are important. fund police traing and add funding for community policing, and a rapid response team with regards to mental health related dispatches.

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

No, but allocate a significant amount of funding to psychological evaluations and mental health/empathy training.

If the police department is actively serving the community for the better than "no", if they are causing a lot of issues for said community than "yes."

Yes there should be more funding to Social and Community based programs, while we retrain our police to be more aware, sensitive and educated on various disabilities, mental conditions and addictions.

Funding should be available for police to have proper and adequate training as well as providing social and community based programs. There's no reason we can't have both.

No but they should work closely with these programs and have increased sensitivity training as well as psychological testing for recruits and current officers. And in higher crime communities increase funding & training for police departments

Yes, part of police funding should be allocated to social & community based programs based on regional requirements, supervised by non-police leadership.

I think that both programs should get more funding

No, however the government needs to provide funding for more social programs

It should be split. Half for funding and training and half for social and community based programs including mental health.

No, but funding should be re-directed to the reformation of police practices (ex. recruitment, training, response to non-violent emergencies).

Yes, but ensure police presence remains in communities and ensure officers are from the community in which they patrol