Should funding for local police departments be redirected to social and community based programs?
Yes, replace police with unarmed community based responders for non-violent calls
Police should be funded more and trained at a higher level, we aren’t ready as a society to allow a community based responder to a non-violent call, and it simply creates more dissolution. Community based responders could have tendencies to escalate situations and fail to find common ground, especially without training, as a community we should seek to help individuals in need, but we haven’t progressed to a stage to allow such organizations. We should focus on the root of crime, and limit corruption before disposing such tasks on a community as a whole.
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