“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.
@ISIDEWITH2yrs
No
@98MCK9C3wks
The police are already underpaid already for how much work they do for the community and us.
@ISIDEWITH2yrs
No, increase funding and training for police departments in higher crime rate communities
@ISIDEWITH2yrs
Yes, replace police with unarmed community based responders for non-violent calls
@ISIDEWITH2yrs
Yes, and abolish the police
@8K6XQHF2yrs
There are good police and bad police, just as there are good priests and bad priests, good pastors/bad pastors, good people and bad people. We should spend money on adding mental health workers to train officers and work alongside them for certain cases. We should also have a no tolerance for any officer showing violence against any citizen except in cases of self defense. Officers should be made to have a body cam on at all times to protect them and citizens. Any officer not wearing a cam and/or in any act of violence should be fired and lose their pension. If officers know this ahead of time it will weed out the bad ones. I’m a white, moderate, and I am distraught over the black lives lost...and how soon they are forgotten and we just move on. This has to stop! We need police, but we need GOOD police.
@8PSKZCY 2yrs
You are going to have a lot of problems with your body cam malfunction/lost pension. Unions will still exist.
I am distraught over all lives lost unjustly to police brutality, I don't care about the color of the victims skin. A human life should not be valued at race.
I will also say it is not as big a problem on this country as the media wants you to think. "White officer shoots black man" draws ratings because it stirs emotions and ultimately capitalizes and politicizes issues then powers that be know they can use to manipulate is into frenzy.
It's imperative we all use common sense and objective reasoning when reading about these stories instead of letting our emotions run wild.
@8SRMXXS2yrs
Not only that, but officers should also be required to take none-lethal, hand to hand disarmament/combat to seduce a violent criminal without causing serious injury. The people should also be required to attend mandatory education classes at least 2 a week every week, to help educate them about what to do in situations in which they are needed.
@98PHPKM2wks
No, but federal funding is unconstitutional
@98XR3SR35mins
Only if funding is not needed and can be place elsewhere
@98XQDQT2hrs
No, but there should be funding for that as well
Only during times of economic crisis.
No but they should both be equaly funded if not the same.
@98XQ3TV2hrs
Have a better divide of funds that is enough for both groups to thrive off of
@98XPX8J2hrs
there should have more diverse training based on how the local area is.
@98XPX3S2hrs
Yes, police departments should still have some armed responders, but responders should be equipped with no lethal weapons for calls without guns.
@98XPVNJ2hrs
Yes, but not to a major extent. cost effective or cost neutral Supplemental programs should be explored while not compromising the police budget.
@98XPG792hrs
No, but I police should maintain there funding, but better train their officers.
@98XP63X3hrs
No, because usually, the things that get money from defunding police are in low-income/higher crime areas that need a bigger police presence.
@98XP3X63hrs
Police should get good funding to help safety but communities should get some money for the extra protection in today's world
@98XNRZG3hrs
Funding should be increased for the police only if the training of police officers is significantly improved and every year police officers take a psychological test as well as physical tests like exercise and aim and training with a firearm.
@98XNBXZ3hrs
No, but increase funding for anti-corruption programs
@98XN65S3hrs
no but neither should be neglected
Public money should in general not be spent to make the perfect society, as it encroaches on civil rights and individual opinions
@98XMTN64hrs
Some should be redirected, not all of it.
@98XMPVL4hrs
No, but spend the funding on reforming the police and teaching how to respond non-violently and in different situations.
@98XMKH54hrs
Police should not be defunded as there are important, but they need to be held more accountable for many different aspects of their work and need to face harsher punishments.
@98XMJ4V4hrs
Have a balanced budged between the two.
@98XMGZN4hrs
I think there should be more funding for higher crime areas but in areas that crime is low, the funding should be directed towards the community.
@98XMGNY4hrs
It should be split. There should be increased funding for community programs but local police should remain in place
Split the funding appropriately for each community
@98XM2NC4hrs
Increase funding while also demilitarizing the police by using funds for increased training requirements and stressful situation training.
@98XLPGJ4hrs
I think we shouldn't get rid of the police but we should try and fire the people who have these badges and who use them to raise fear in certain people and take a better look at who we are hiring to keep our communities safe and not terrorize them.
@98XLNWJ4hrs
To an extent but this issue is much more nuanced than a yes or a no
@98XL2XP4hrs
I wouldn't say "defund" the police, but "reform" the police would be better, they need way more training, and they need to be personally checked to see if they have any discriminatory ideologies towards anyone before becoming a police officer.
@98XKWMQ4hrs
no, i feel as though it should be more balanced as they are both important matters.
No, but funding for police should go down
@98XK5235hrs
Money should go to both police departments and social and community based programs
@98XJVKH5hrs
I think 60 percent to the police and the rest to the other things.
@98XJNZ65hrs
Do not abolish the police but invest in social and community based programs.
@98XJ3B95hrs
Limit the power of the police
They should not completely defund the police because they protect communites.
They should be trained properly and background checked but we need the police to some extent.
@98XHQMQ6hrs
No, we should look for other ways to increase the help of others without taking away our safety
Funding should go to the local police departments in order to enhance training and add teams that are specialized to respond to mental health crisis.
@98XGNZK6hrs
They should stay funded regularly, but they should be trained and taught to treat everyone equally.
@98XFQG57hrs
Continue to increase training for police AND funding social and community-based programs.
Yes, but still fund local police departments.
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