“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
@964SF29Conservative3yrs3Y
No we should have both police and programs with trained professionals.
@95DJ4SV3yrs3Y
i think the police should be maintained while sending out advertisements for drug rehabilitation and addictions centers that help people for free
@8V9DRKD4yrs4Y
Add more mental health services in conjunction with the police.
@8TY27NM4yrs4Y
There should be funds for both
@8TBJZN64yrs4Y
I don’t have a preference
@8QWHNZW4yrs4Y
No, but some of the funding should go towards social and community based programs.
@8PYCWNZ4yrs4Y
No, But they should do back round checks and psychological evaluation
@9CQ8CWT2yrs2Y
Yes, a city should spend no more than 15% of its gdp on law enforcement, cut all spending for law enforcement that goes over that threshold, put it towards social programs and other emergency services and take 5% of that 15% to spend on more extensive police training and education
@93KJD863yrs3Y
No, I think you should increase training for police departments and add unarmed community-based responders for non-violent calls or mental health calls like wellness checks.
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