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

No, redirect current investments into a better screening and application process for students, mandatory therapy and mental health sessions VERY FREQUENT, and more focus on ethical and behavioural training.

Yes, there has been a shift of funding from health, mental health, social services while policing funding has increased. Partnerships between these services needs to increase and appropriate personnel should deal with the issues. Police need to be mental health first responders

Not necessarily. Community based organizations should be better funded and cooperative programs be a part of all police and community based interactions. They can do more together than apart.

We should find additional funding for Social and Community based programs, without taking away funding from the police.

No, but money going into the police department should be used to promote equality under the law, via trainings ect.

Need to increase funding and build up those other services BEFORE some of that funding can be shifted

The police are important and so are the people/ communites so id say split it and/ or focus on whatever is this most pressing matter at the moment.

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.

Funding should be used in conjunction with social and community based programs, to bring a better connection and understanding between the police and the community it protects.

Yes, but have it go to funding training for ways to handle people with mental illness for all police officers

Decrease but not abolish

No, mandate social education for police officers to help deal with high stress situations and people's with mental health issues

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.

I believe that police should not judge people of couloir to quick and should not think they are better then others

i think that these fund could maybe be reduced less but can be put toward better things

More funding should be spent on training/ policing and social programs that provide disadvantaged youth/people with real opportunity

Yes and no , Funding Should be increased for both

Increase funding for those areas that professionals would be more effective. Then after a trial period reduce any targeted funding the police departments may have been receiving to provide those services.

No, Increase training for police officers for social work

Becoming a police officer should require better schooling. Minimum of 2 years

how about putting 50% into police and 50% into comunity based programs

each should be equal

Yes/maybe, for local police. If citizens want a police force they can trust, they should also be the ones funding that police force.

RCMP and crown/privatized security, no. RCMP I believe are loyal to the crown/government, and private security is usually just for profit.

I feel both ways, because we need more police because they are a very important part in keeping us safe. But I also think that we need therapists too.

Provide strict training, psychological testing to all police personnel, have 1 group (between 3-6) unarmed community based responders with 1 armed police responder for non violent calls. In higher crime rate communities triple the amount of armed police responders with at least 1 officer with de-escalation training

should both receive funds

I feel as though both is important.

yes, we should make police training better so that police brutality is less of an issue, because right now we have to deal with way to much violence from the people who are supposed to be protecting us.

Try do a bit of both

Yes, some funding should be redirected to social and community based programs, but not all of it

I think that both the local police department and social and community based programs should be funded

they should have equal spending

Keep funding for police but add funding for community and social based programs. Or maybe redirect some of the funding but not all.

Some funding directed to social partnerships a d me tal.health support.

Yes, via data analytics. Any social program that reduces crime rates more than policing should be funded.

Police are important, take a small amount and from areas like our healthcare budget to focus on lowering corruption and mental health issues.

small police stations for small towns should be social and community based

police should get more funding

Some funding should be directed to social and community as well as higher crime in communites.

incress the things for mental health but keep the fundings for police the same

It should be half and half. They need their equipment, but also need to have a good relationship with the public.

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

I don’t think all funding should be moved to social and community based programs but some should be.

Should be evenly dispersed between different emergency response teams who are trained for specific scenario's

it should be directed equaly to both

No but more funding should go to social and community based programs

Keep police, increase funding to social support systems

police should have access to more training and social workers and addiction counsellors should be on site if needed.

Still fund police but provide more training as well as new programs. Some issues would be helped with mental health professionals instead of police

Police need a major overhaul, focus on real crimeans quit extorting hard working canadians for petty infractions

No, locate and redistribute unnecessary spending towards additional training with a focus on psychology and human relations.

There is a need for additional funding for social and community based programs but that funding should not be taken from local police departments

No the funding should not be redirected from the local police, but rather put into longer training courses and training in more psychology-type courses, as well as an extended psychological briefing on each individual before becoming an official officer. It's clear that some people who become cops are not in the right mindset to approach a situation without immediately judging someone based on the colour of their skin/what they are wearing/how they look. This is the issue with police that needs to be fixed, and I believe that if there are more hoops to jump to become a cop, then the force will start to become people who actually care and want to find the correct solution to every problem they approach because they want justice & to protect the innocent.

It should be reset so that the police and community responders work together

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

redirect a small percentage of police funding to social agencies.

Funding should be added for mental health workers to work with police.

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.

No, but officers should be trained in psychology and sociology

more should be redirected but not all

A balanced system is best and increase funding

Set up more funding to have trained people fill those rolls and be called upon when needed

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

The funding should be equally distributed.

Keep funding as is, use extra funding for social programs.

Funding for the police should be kept the same and social programs should get more funding.

only some of it should be spread into the community

They should keep the funding for the police departments where it is and instead put more money into those social and community-based programs so then once those programs start to become more successful then you can start to reduce funding from the police departments

No, but funding for mental health and addictions officers should be added to take over in these areas.

Both need Funding but police should be trained in in social and community programs combine the two to solve the issues.

No, but increase training and psychological evaluations

No, redirect the funding to better training for the police department.

Some funding can go there but also just reallocate how the police does its job. More walking around and patrolling streets.

Just lower funds

Increase funding for better help for prisoners so when/if they get out they will have better lives

Get police more training and therapy very intense psycholical evaluations,

Defund the police. I dont think we should abolish the police force but there needs to be an entire rework of the system. Id rather naot see my brown brothers and sisters dying t the hands of abusive cops.

No but hire people who have training to deal with mental health and addictions

Funding should be allocated to the needs of communities.

Funding towards police should go into training to cope with racism, poverty, deescalation, etc

No but more money should be spent on social programs in general

Kind of, but not that much

I think and bit of the money but not all

Reallocate part of the funding to community based programs and hold police accountable when they screw up. They are not above the law, the police should be there to uphold law and order, not exploit it like I see way to often.

No, increase funding and training and regular testing for the police force to enforce a higher standard of work

Keep current funding for police but find funding to increase social programs.

The police need to be held accountable for there actions and kept in check rather then find reasons to charge someone but still keep inforcing the law

social workers should be escorted by a armed cop

some funding should be transfered but not all

I personally think funding should be split 50 50

No but police should receive more training and they should hire those best suited for the job instead of diversity hiring.

No, require police officers to take a two-year course in social work, mental health and addictions prior to being accepted into the police force.

We shouldn’t fully defund the police but a lot of the funding could instead be put towards community based programs.