“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
@9W7GNYV6mos6MO
Increase funding for both police and alternative services, and direct these services where applicable to prevent unnecessary use of police forces.
@9W4LHPN6mos6MO
Find a moderate solution by increasing funding for police training in community based responders, and ensure that all police are trained for both sides of law enforcement. Split shifts for each officer so they MUST do both types of work during their career in law enforcement
@9TZNJBF7mos7MO
Put the fundings in training programs for police members to learn how to deal with different situations, avoiding gun use
@9F9X3WH2yrs2Y
depend on how safe you want to feel if they can't buy the right equipment
@96868R23yrs3Y
Depends how they'd spend it
@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
@8Z5KNTP3yrs3Y
I mean, we can still fund the police, but we really do need to work on the community and social based programs so that later on we will hopefully wont need to fund the police.
@8VVHJC74yrs4Y
Keep the police in place, but fund organizations that understand mental health and can train RCMP
@8VNRFJZ4yrs4Y
no, but more community services is always needed
@8VMKCZF4yrs4Y
more funding for mental health and rehab services is very important but police departments should still exist
I think that funding things like responders based for non-violent calls like a suicide call are very important. because all that a bunch of heavily armed individuals shouting is going to do is making an already scared person feel more scared and defensive. that's why having responders that aren't armed and have phycology training is important
@8VKXMTH4yrs4Y
take some of the money to social based programs
@8V9DRKD4yrs4Y
Add more mental health services in conjunction with the police.
No, increase pay for police and go through extensive training for at least 2 years.
Funding should be allocated for social service programs to work alongside police.
@8TY27NM4yrs4Y
There should be funds for both
@8TCTJ684yrs4Y
No, but a renewed training which includes acknowledging systemic biases and how to police our communities without social judgements
@8TBJZN64yrs4Y
I don’t have a preference
@8SXVMGM4yrs4Y
@8S6WXRZ4yrs4Y
No, but spend more profits on their training
@8QWHNZW4yrs4Y
No, but some of the funding should go towards social and community based programs.
No, increase funding to train police officers to specialize in social work or psychology
@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
@9C6RDH82yrs2Y
Get rid of the RCMP and replace with municipal police
@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.
@8VPTHT94yrs4Y
redirect lot's of funding for mental health and rehab facilities but reform police departments
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