Should funding for local police departments be redirected to social and community based programs?

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Yes replacing the police with unarmed citizens sounds like a good idea at first but against an armed criminal?

I personally think police should not have guns but instead other methods like tazers/rubber bullets/ tear gas and be trained more mentally in quick time situations to disarming and catching the suspect alive

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