“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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@8LQJ4VFNew Democratic4yrs4Y
No Just direct the funds you ALREADY HAVE into a LONGER POLIECE COURSE
with EDUCATION and police officers, if for some reason they dont already, should have MANDITORY psychiatric evaluations. ESPICALLY after shooting their fire arm for WHAT EVER REASON. Keep your workers safe and your leaders clean please so we can all be safe please. Ty
@8Q2GXXR4yrs4Y
I understand you are coming from an extremely empathetic place and this is what most misunderstandings stem from. Police officers are actually treated like criminals after firing their firearms, no matter how justified it is. Once they are relieved from the scene, their gun and badge are taken away and they are suspended under unpaid leave. No, it's not a vacation. During your leave, you will be interviewed multiple times and have to fill out many legal documents. Even for the most justified of shootings, there is still a very long and thorough investigation by IA and the SIU in Ontario, and you are suspended until your trial which can take years.
@9RCRNZK9mos9MO
Yes, but the social programs need to work for the areas that they are affecting, this cannot be a one size fits all. The social programs need to be registered and regulated.
@9RC4JNV9mos9MO
Increase the scope of the police force, separate the departments allowing them to specialize for different tasks much like we have emergency response for fire and health we need similar to tackle other problems within the community.
I think that they should do what's right.
@96JXX4S3yrs3Y
I think it dpends maybe spend more on the community based programms and still give the police the same amount of money
@8YFHZQZConservative3yrs3Y
No, but redirect funding towards more non violent conflict resolution
@8XW2SFGNew Democratic3yrs3Y
funding should be increased to create teams on the force dedicated to mental health and crisis response
@8VPHZLD4yrs4Y
yes the police have lots of funding and other services wont normally have as much
@8V28JMZNew Democratic4yrs4Y
Funding should be available for police to have proper and adequate training as well as providing social and community based programs. There's no reason we can't have both.
@8TWVCF74yrs4Y
Increase mental health training for police so they do not use weapons to subdue those in distress.
@8TWTKS94yrs4Y
No and provide police with more training to deal with mental health calls and increase funding to social and community based programs and integrate them along with police to respond to non-violent calls
@8TVDZYM4yrs4Y
yes replace some police with unarmed community based responders for non violent calls whilst increasing provencial police in these areas with a larger funding
@8TQYCQQ4yrs4Y
No but there should be training for racism , etc
@8TP4TKS4yrs4Y
Eliminate RCMP entirely and have elected local police forces.
@8PZ977T4yrs4Y
I think funding should go towards properly educating officers on dealing with certain situations and different people. I also think funding should be put in place to allow community based responders to respond to non violent situations.
@8PKLLMSConservative4yrs4Y
Community policing so the police know the people around them, hence lowering the danger involved with being stopped by police
@9BNW3BK2yrs2Y
Not completely. I believe that social programs could be very helpful for troubled people, but police are still needed.
@9BC9VXN2yrs2Y
Yes, but the social programs should be to prevent future crimes, not training civilians to stop them as they are occurring.
@98YYPHB2yrs2Y
Reform the Police to ensure that all officers are sufficently trained to a national standard
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