“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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@4MW5VJW4yrs4Y
Keep funding the same, increase funding for police training especially in higher crime rate communities and replace police with unarmed community based responders for non-violent calls
@8Q5NGWK4yrs4Y
Lower funding for police departments and redirect the difference to community based programs.
@4SHZKD64yrs4Y
Yes, what a place this would be if social organizations had the funding to do what they set out to! That being said, I think police are still essential and need continued training/psycho-social training and eval. It's a respected position but a letdown to see officers who are corrupt and abuse that power given.
@8XHNZZR3yrs3Y
No but I think there should be higher standards for them.
@5N6PP284yrs4Y
No, but increase training for the police where they wouldn't feel the need to use gun violence.
@6W63YZ84yrs4Y
No, increase funding for training and screening for all police departments nationwide with training to help reduce racism and sexism in officers.
@7C2LD624yrs4Y
Yes, and replace police with local militia and neighborhood watches.
@88SWF884yrs4Y
Tax reform for both of these to have more funding.
@842VWLK2yrs2Y
yes, but only if there is still enough funding to police departments that they can still sustain themselves.
@8FJK7XV4yrs4Y
No, put the current funding toward better mental health services and better police training.
@8GGZQTR4yrs4Y
There should not be a significant amount of funding, but just enough for the police to do their job and nothing more
@8L6JVDH4yrs4Y
yes, the police has too much funding and such low criteria to become a police officer, that anyone could join. with that toxic people join and ruin it. they should make it more difficult and put the extra funding into schools and planned parenthood
@8LXB5GL4yrs4Y
I don’t think that defunding the police is the right choice but I think the should follow the same rules a regular citizen does and should go through more years of training.
@8MR6ZZG4yrs4Y
The police should be reformed
@8NZ62MS4yrs4Y
I'm in between with this question. I believe we should reform the police with more training on how to deal with emergency situations but also give more funding to those social and community based programs.
@8PMF46F4yrs4Y
The funding and duties for police are too broad. Social services and community-based programs definitely need to more prioritized in cases involving children, the mentally ill, and addiction. That would obviously require more funding, which I believe should be taken from local police departments.
@8TWBTT93yrs3Y
No. The police should just be trained better. Most police attacks are due to racist beliefs. Police are just people. People can be taught to do away with racism when it comes to enforcing the law.
@8WBMHGG3yrs3Y
No, but increase restrictions on what the police can do.
@8XFNL5B3yrs3Y
This one is kind of tricky for me. I think that police should be trained more so they know what to do in more situations. Like what to do differently when a white cop is approaching a person of color. I do think that wee need more social community based programs though.
@8YZTXJB3yrs3Y
Yes, but for the sake of extra training. Police officers have some of the worst deescalation abilities, and need to be taught how to properly handle situations like that. Especially when it comes to members of the population who are special needs.
@8ZRKB483yrs3Y
No, redirect other money to social and community based programs.
