“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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@9V3Z4837mos7MO
the answers are flawed their should be an in-between my answer would be " they should take away a percentage lets say between 15% to 25% of the funding for police and redirect that to social programs but that is not saying that police work isn't important but it is in need of regulation
Yes, community programs should be funded more but it shouldn't take away from our first responder's who also need more funding
@9T29GLM8mos8MO
i believe they should be trained to respond to certain situations differently. and i also believe they should be monitored more
@9STLGWFConservative8mos8MO
Both are important ways to enforce the law. Social and community based programs are simply better long term solutions. However, the police should not be underfunded for this purpose.
@9MC4BQL11mos11MO
Change training or more strick psychological evaluations. The lack of help for the native population, specifically native woman that go missing and not enough is done.
@9G8F9LCNew Democratic2yrs2Y
no, current funding should be used for teaching about mental health issues in the people as well as de-escalating situations and non-violent tactics
@9F5KMPV2yrs2Y
Increase funding to police so they can receive conflict resolution and mental health training. Police should be able to handle every situation. Increase funding so they can become counselors too. Abolishing the police would be stupid more work has to be done to make police better. Police training should involve critical race theory.
@92J2QPB3yrs3Y
citizens should have the right to bear arms to protect themselves when the police department fails to
We should be aloud to have the right to bare arms to protect themselves when the police department fail to
@925B5BBNew Democratic3yrs3Y
Some funding should be shifted to social and community based programs (not all).
@8VZCTFD4yrs4Y
The police system is a joke, every time I had to deal with them it has been a negative experience, should be concentrating on solving crimes instead they harass the general public with fines.
@8VS786Q4yrs4Y
Redirect current funding from tactical and armed options to community based response training.
@8VJRRKC4yrs4Y
Increase training for police and hold them more accountable when they make mistakes and support more social snd community programs
@8VGQ5N24yrs4Y
Where need to be a balance. Both are vital services
@8TW57DJNew Democratic4yrs4Y
I think that both programs should get more funding
Increase funding for retraining and new processes for the "new" year. Policing is old school. Its a new world!
@8SRSRSPConservative4yrs4Y
yes but not too much only a little chunk
@9C7PH472yrs2Y
Funding for the police should stay the same but social and community programs should have increased funding
@B4Q664V2 days2D
Increase unarmed community based responders. Most calls could end differently with proper de-escalation skills. Police should not be trained to take everything as a threat
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