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

Yes to some extent but ensuring police receiving enough funding to be able to properly and safely do their jobs

Social services should be increased, but not necessarily at the expense of police. Social workers should be responding with police to many calls.

Get rid of the rcmp and have the provinces make their own police forces with federal subsidies. Create a modest size highly train federal police force to assist all provincial police departments. Create a military police force modelled of France’s National Gendarmerie to combat high crime area. Also rent the forces to countries with high gang and cartel activity for profit

Training should increase for police and police and social organizations should increase for better preventative supports.

Yes, but the social programs need to work for the areas that they are affecting, this cannot be a one size fits all. The social programs need to be registered and regulated.

Increase the scope of the police force, separate the departments allowing them to specialize for different tasks much like we have emergency response for fire and health we need similar to tackle other problems within the community.

no, but there should be someone aside from police to go to less important calls and more funding should go to social and community based groups.

Preventive measures and houseing/mental health care for people Police for the non preventable crimes

No, funding needs to be based on the area. Funding also needs to be assigned to social and community programs to help reduce crime and in turn lead to reduced spending for the police.

I think that they should do what's right.

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.

I think it dpends maybe spend more on the community based programms and still give the police the same amount of money

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.

Regrdless, allocate resources proportionally based off of the conditions of the area where people live.

Police funding should remain healthy while still dispersing a helpful and fair amount of money to social and community-based programs.

no money should be spent on better training for the police

more funding for social comunity programs but still some police funding

some of it should be split

No, but redirect funding towards more non violent conflict resolution

Better training for police and use of community bases programs

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

The first step is to increase funding to social programs, mental health and addictions and restorative programs. When these begin to help the burden law enforcement are facing, budgets can then be looked at to be decreased.

Yes, and restructure the police system.

Retrain the police

i think some funding towards the police could go towards more community and social based programs.

Yes, a percentage of funding should be redirected.

yes the police have lots of funding and other services wont normally have as much

While I think funding should be put else where I don’t believe they should be abolished

A little, but they should not be abolished, but given organizations to work beside

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 more funds should be allocated to allow both to make sure the social workers are protected

Increase mental health training for police so they do not use weapons to subdue those in distress.

No and provide police with more training to deal with mental health calls and increase funding to social and community based programs and integrate them along with police to respond to non-violent calls

yes replace some police with unarmed community based responders for non violent calls whilst increasing provencial police in these areas with a larger funding

No, increase social and community based program funding, but not at the expense of local police funding.

No but there should be training for racism , etc

Eliminate RCMP entirely and have elected local police forces.

Partially, delegate areas to community actors while also increasing training within police.

Do not completely defund the police. Spread out responsibilities among other jobs.

I think funding should go towards properly educating officers on dealing with certain situations and different people. I also think funding should be put in place to allow community based responders to respond to non violent situations.

No, not all funding should be redirected but some should be

Community policing so the police know the people around them, hence lowering the danger involved with being stopped by police

no however a budget cut should be made and with that cut the money could go to communitys

no but there should be a budget cut and that money should be sent to schools and universitys

Funding should be redistributed and hire more mental health workers

We should at least find a way to fund other services without defending them

The police are a tool. If our governments who control the police are freedom lovers, give the cops all they need. If the governments become tyrants, as they are becoming now as we see with "The Great Reset", take their tools of oppression away. But then, of course, that's when such governments use their tools the most, isn't it?

Every society requires a police force, but more social and community based programs need to be given more consideration to help criminals rehabilitate and reduce the prison populations. Some offenders just need the guidance to lead better lives.

Yes, 50% should be directed to social and community based programs and 50% should be directed towards police

Not completely. I believe that social programs could be very helpful for troubled people, but police are still needed.

Yes, but the social programs should be to prevent future crimes, not training civilians to stop them as they are occurring.

with a collaborative approach to the whole system. Police should be a part of the whole not our only option in crisis.

No, there needs to be more research done on the effectiveness of these programs before allocating funds to it

Leave the funding as it is

Reform the Police to ensure that all officers are sufficently trained to a national standard

No, policing should pay well so they attract the right people. Positive Community involvement should be a tremendous part of policing also.

both police and community based programs should be funded equally

Police should receive more extensive training to better serve their communities.

No, not all, but some for sure

Instead of buying military-grade weapons and vehicles I believe that the funds of the police should be redirected to better training

I feel they should redirect some funding to the social and community based programs but not all of it that they abolish the police enough so they can still have money for training and we can have a safe and nice environment for our community to live in.

Yes, but still keep the police as well as the social and community based programs

Keep police but merge social service providers with police force to work as team to provide collaborative approach.

No, and increase funding and support to social and community based programs

Not necessarily. However, the police need the ability to serve search warrants when needed and otherwise have additional ability to act/serve. They should be trained in racial, ethnic, social and other community-based issues.

No but have there be more training and undergoing consequences

No, there is no prove that adding funding to social programs will help.

Educate police on race and minorities, especially our native communities more education, less gun violence and murder at the hand of our police.

don't make sense

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

Make police, police. They have to many non police responsibilities. Have tried, non armed people with them for mental health or negotiating.