“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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@3YCKLNH4yrs4Y
Yes and reduce the duties of police to the smallest, most necessary subset of law enforcement.
@6WQYBY35yrs5Y
Yes. By eliminating victimless crimes from the responsibilities of the police, Law Enforcement can draw down and the newly available resources can be used at community discretion.
@3GZTJR25yrs5Y
@4N8THPV5yrs5Y
Yes, if that is what the community decides. End federal funding for local police departments.
@4FPWLYP5yrs5Y
No. Police should be privatized, and demilitarized. Laws should also be repealed to prevent more possible deadly encounters.
@4NJR28J4yrs4Y
No, funding shouldn't be "redirected" or "defunded" away from the police. But reform does need to happen to educate officers on what measures should be appropriate for each specific scenario, hold officers accountable for their actions, and abolish policies intrusive to people and their property, namely, no knock warrants.
@593CCZ54yrs4Y
Until the war on drugs ends, police will be a military type force. They have been thrust into this role by government. We should end the war on drugs and then demilitarize the police forces, to have them return to their conducting themselves as they did in the past (protect/serve).
@2K396D24yrs4Y
Yes, and The Police should be absorbed into the Sheriff's office, as the Sheriff answers to the people.
@2K396D25yrs5Y
Yes, and The Police should be absorbed into the Sheriff's department, as the Sheriff answers to the people.
@84JHJXZ4yrs4Y
No, social and community-based programs should receive funding from individual citizens. Also, local police departments should reallocate funds for training instead of equipment.
@7GWDHYF3yrs3Y
No, but defund the police anyway
@89CY6475yrs5Y
Funding should be reduced to all programs.
@8GDCWLZ5yrs5Y
Yes, police should be community oriented and only respond to violent crimes.
@8JBSYBR4yrs4Y
Yes, direct all federally funded training and programs toward community policing and bias training.
@8PGF5YQ4yrs4Y
Funding, like the paradigm of responsibilities, needs to be divided from police. Cases of mental health crises need to be handled by appropriately trained and subsequently funded individuals
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