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

Better training. More diversity to reflect community. Physical fitness tests every 5 years. More community policing instead of reactive

No but they should go through more training and be provided or required to take courses regarding race and other cultures to open their eyes and minds and to hopefully prevent more incidents requiring race to happen

use current funds to train police officers to better handle situations involving mental health issues and other nonviolent options to prevent crimes.

Yes, but still fund local police departments & require all law enforcement officers follow a strict code of conduct.

Police units should be paired with social workers, mental health workers, etc. so they can go out on teams for suicide, domestic abuse, etc.

Yes but they should also have more funding for educating the police force on racial inequality.

I think it should be shared between the two, depending on the crime

Have police and community based responders available for non-violent calls

Funding should be equally split for both parties

I believe that we should give the police more but also give some for programs but majority police

No, increase funding and training for police to react and respond appropriately for each call. Encourage de-escalating techniques

it depends on the local police department and social community-based programs.

Yes. Funding should be distributed among various agencies with specific training. Of course funding should still go to police who are trained to respond to crimes. But more funding to social agencies including safe consumption sites, mental health and child care could significantly prevent crimes the police have to respond to.

No. Increase the required both provincial and federal law. As well as mandatory therapy and counseling sessions for all officers.

I believe that both need attention

While police should not be abolished, some funds should be redirected to social programs.

No it should instead be redirected to funding increased reliability (better mental health response, and ethical decisons based on various spectrums of social preassures) of police and alongside the increase in funding a increase in responsibility and liability be placed on police in instances of malpractice

Police should have better funding for training, but there should also be a community of volunteers for non violent calls

There needs to be a complete police reform, otherwise we are just funding racist murderers.

Police officers should be more helpful to the community and undergo strict supervision.

Yes, replace most of the police with unarmed community based responders for non-violent calls

More focus should be made towards education, housing, and social assistance in order to reduce the need for police

Create additional resource officers who are specifically for community outreach and mental health. Sometimes it be how the community doing, not what the community doing

Increase training to optimize current funding available.