“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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@93R5GT23yrs3Y
Less money should be given to the local police and more to social and communities, but the police should continue existing to persist against law breakers
@8YWJRJH3yrs3Y
No, focus on police reformation instead.
@8YLRG4S3yrs3Y
Yes, but with the hope that the police departments train in a social work course.
@8XJQDK2New Democratic3yrs3Y
The funding should be balance for both police and social programs
Instead of defunding the Police, we should redirect the funding towards more training such as: Mental health, cultural training, having something in place to discuss emotions as oppose to restricting Officers from talking about there emotions
@8VV2P574yrs4Y
Some. The funding used for mental health and drug calls, etc., should be redirected to the appropriate services
No, funding should be redirected to training police officers in defusing situations and not profiling by colour, gender, or age.
@8VGSN594yrs4Y
Sufficient funding between community and police based programs
@8VDYQ4Y4yrs4Y
No, but instead some of the funding be redirected to a force that is specifically equipped for calls to scenes involving mental health episodes.
@8VBNWP44yrs4Y
Some of the funding should be redirected, but the police departments should remain
@8TX8N5R4yrs4Y
Allocate half the funds to community based programs.
@8TVJRCRNew Democratic4yrs4Y
It should be split. Half for funding and training and half for social and community based programs including mental health.
@8TJJV724yrs4Y
No, they should just give the current budgeted funds the right people.
@8SKT9984yrs4Y
No, increase funding for training police departments
@8P9CY8Q4yrs4Y
I want a replacement of the police force consisting of social workers, nurses and psychologists dealing with violent and non-violent crimes firsthand, and for the current criminal field to be changed towards the health field, with prisoner rights being the only legal issues for which judges have a say.
@997L4R92yrs2Y
Yes, while allowing police forces to operate and be trained in relations and conflict-resolution
@997HC5Q2yrs2Y
Yes, though fundamental training and a better relation between police and community.
@96W4M322yrs2Y
less funding and more back ground checks on future officers
@96QVWKM2yrs2Y
Yes, but make it so that all police officers are educated and change the way they are trained so that they can be more fair, equal, and reasonable
@8VM3YCN4yrs4Y
Education, mental health training, crisis avertion training and general training to become a police officer should have greater funding, maybe currently misplaced funding could be a problem. However social, awareness, acceptance, community programs are paramount to preventing higher crime. Stigmas drive a high amount of distrust and hate which in general just makes crime more rampant. All of this being my opinion.
@8TJ78QF4yrs4Y
Yes, and increase funding for the police to hire more officers
@B4R2Y9D17hrs17H
Increase the amount of screening for entry into the police foundations programs and also again when being hired.
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