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@8Q2GXXRfrom Pennsylvania commented…4yrs4Y

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

Police department funding should be left in the power of municipal governments.

Not if you have a crazy city council in Toronto who got rid of 30 percent of the police force in March which created all-time highs in crime. But in general I d…

@8Q2GXXRfrom Pennsylvania agreed…4yrs4Y

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

No, police should instead be trained to respond in non-violent situations in order to mitigate police issues

Agreed. The main counter-argument with this is that cops get paid highly and it wastes their time. If you consider those social workers are paid around 15k less…

@8Q2GXXRfrom Pennsylvania agreed…4yrs4Y

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

Funding for social and community based programs should be taken off the workload for police and given their own budget to provide services needed.

The number of cops who want that is staggering. Imagine if you spent 50% of your day responding to mentally ill people and therefore having no time to fight or…

@8Q2GXXRfrom Pennsylvania agreed…4yrs4Y

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

increase funding for unarmed, community officer intergration while mainatining funding for current police programs

Agreed. But where do we get that funding from? Decrease the scandals from both the prime minister funding huge corporations for no reason. Decrease social welfa…

@8Q2GXXRfrom Pennsylvania agreed…4yrs4Y

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

the funding should be split between the social and community based programs and the local police departments

Agreed. Depending on how though. 50/50 is not going to happen. But 70/30 makes a lot of sense. I also think that we should scoop in funding from social welfare…

@8Q2GXXRfrom Pennsylvania disagreed…4yrs4Y

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

redirect funding to police training about racially diverse communities

Training cops to be not racist is assuming cops are racist. Anti-discrimination training is hated by cops and taxpayers because all you're doing is throwing mon…

@8Q2GXXRfrom Pennsylvania agreed…4yrs4Y

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

id rather fund both

Me too, but as conservatives I think we have to recognize the dangerous amounts of government spending. Name aspects that we should defund to get more funding i…

@8Q2GXXRfrom Pennsylvania agreed…4yrs4Y

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

No, increase training and increase funding for social and community based programs

Increasing training = increasing funding for police. Most people will say decrease government debt, but when they are asked if they want to decrease funding on…

@8Q2GXXRfrom Pennsylvania agreed…4yrs4Y

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

All members of law enforcement should all be required to wear body cameras at all times during their shift. Any discriminatory or violent behavior should result…

I agree that most law enforcement members should wear bodycams (that requires more funding). But you also have to consider detectives and internal affairs offic…

@8Q2GXXRfrom Pennsylvania commented…4yrs4Y

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

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 MA…

I understand you are coming from an extremely empathetic place and this is what most misunderstandings stem from. Police officers are actually treated like crim…

@ISIDEWITH asked…2hrs2H

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

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“Funding needs to be based on the area. Funding also needs to be assigned to social and community programs to help reduce…”

“No. Maintain funding. Require stricter standards of hiring and intimidate community oversight. Also have the police forc…”

“No, but have have police go through a most strict training and mental evaluation to determine their stability and abilit…”

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