“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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This is a good idea, but we should not get rid of the police completely. We should be helping vulnerable people to not gravitate towards criminal activity in the first place and help them get support.
@8ZP5XPN3yrs3Y
Funding should be moved away from militaristic deployment and towards training and education.
@3YCKLNH4yrs4Y
Yes and reduce the duties of police to the smallest, most necessary subset of law enforcement.
@6WQYBY35yrs5Y
Yes. By eliminating victimless crimes from the responsibilities of the police, Law Enforcement can draw down and the newly available resources can be used at community discretion.
@3GZTJR25yrs5Y
@4N8THPV5yrs5Y
Yes, if that is what the community decides. End federal funding for local police departments.
@4FPWLYP5yrs5Y
No. Police should be privatized, and demilitarized. Laws should also be repealed to prevent more possible deadly encounters.
@52P5M5S5yrs5Y
In theory this could work, however I'm more in favor of and increase in funding and better training. In some scenarios the police force may be too corrupt and may need to be completely disbanded and rebuilt.
@4LPK7XY4yrs4Y
Empower police departments to resource subject matter experts in matters of de-escalation training, community engagement, and focus on supporting low-income communities.
@2MSVHL24yrs4Y
We should have more privatized funding, local funding, stop militarizing the police. Get them better training and maybe even some mental help on staff.
@593CCZ54yrs4Y
Until the war on drugs ends, police will be a military type force. They have been thrust into this role by government. We should end the war on drugs and then demilitarize the police forces, to have them return to their conducting themselves as they did in the past (protect/serve).
@3JZS28T5yrs5Y
Regardless, all government bodies funded by theft should be abolished, including both police and social/community programs.
@2JKJDDZ4yrs4Y
Yes, but only for non criminal related matters like traffic violations and mental health services
@55RTR4B5yrs5Y
No, direct police departments to operate social- & community-based programs
@2K396D24yrs4Y
Yes, and The Police should be absorbed into the Sheriff's office, as the Sheriff answers to the people.
@2K396D25yrs5Y
Yes, and The Police should be absorbed into the Sheriff's department, as the Sheriff answers to the people.
@7BW69RN4yrs4Y
Privatize police forces instead.
@84JHJXZ4yrs4Y
No, social and community-based programs should receive funding from individual citizens. Also, local police departments should reallocate funds for training instead of equipment.
@5GHSCDS5yrs5Y
Yes, but maintain some funding for better training
@3GRHFK64yrs4Y
This should be determined on a case-by-case basis. There should be budgetary oversight of police departments and it may make sense to shift funding to mental institutions.
@38LNC725yrs5Y
Police should be paid more and better trained AND there should be increased funding to social and community based programs to better deal with situations involving drugs, mental health, or other problems that don't require force/guns that police deploy.
@2HN4HSX5yrs5Y
Transfer all funding and policing duties to the elected sheriff's department.
@5VW46HK4yrs4Y
Increase training for police departments, but also provide funding for social and community based programs.
@7BMP7N54yrs4Y
No, but raise the standards of racial sensitive and education for police officers as a whole
@84N8BY45yrs5Y
No, but police training needs to improve to make deadly force a last resort.
@89CY6475yrs5Y
Funding should be reduced to all programs.
@8DN4WYN5yrs5Y
Yes, and provide a call option other than 911 to replace police with unarmed community based responders for non-violent calls, make the police obtain insurance, end qualified immunity and no knock raids, etc..
@8GDCWLZ5yrs5Y
Yes, police should be community oriented and only respond to violent crimes.
@8GYCXW35yrs5Y
No, their funding should be lowered and taxes that support them should be lowered
@8HC6XWC5yrs5Y
Yes, but redirect only a portion of funding to social and community-based programs.
@8LPQ75J4yrs4Y
they should be put though more training so that they can can an undestanding of a multitude of situation,such as mentaly disturbed people
@8MCVG8W4yrs4Y
No, but expand social work programs and funding for mental health professionals to accompany or replace police on mental health and domestic violence calls.
@8R6BDQ64yrs4Y
No, but policing needs reforms to reduce force usage and militarization.
@8R7N6V44yrs4Y
The militarization of the police needs to end. End qualified immunity and civil asset forfeiture.
@8RBFHYK4yrs4Y
@8RJ2TQK4yrs4Y
This is up to the local government and is not a federal issue
@GreatPondG4yrs4Y
Yes, but only partially and only after gun control laws are removed
@8XH4JKP3yrs3Y
Police should get better training rather than just using brute force. they should be better trained in dealing with situations and how to not let personal beliefs get in the way of their job.
@8Z48T243yrs3Y
No, and decrease funding for police
@5GHSCDS5yrs5Y
Yes, but maintain enough funding for better training
@8ZCJJ3R3yrs3Y
No, the police should be de-militarized and better trained in non-violent confrontations and use of deadly force.
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