@9L7YRJG7mos
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.
@9QTM2DZRepublican 5mos
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.
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.
@9TV3X8WWomen’s Equality3 days
Increase funding for more reform and better training for police.
The police should be trained correctly
no , but decrease a little bit funding for local police
Some funding for local police departments should be redirected to social and community based programs, but not all funding.
No, increase funding for police and allow for better training and checks on police systems in all areas.
Yes, but as long as funding is good balance between law enforcement and community based programs
@9TW2BPSConstitution2 days
Keep police but make it privately owned
@9TVYM2BIndependent2 days
Yes, replace police with unarmed community-based responders for non-violent calls, and increase training for police departments
@9TVY2LRWorking Family2 days
Revise and improve the way police are trained.
@9TVNCPRWomen’s Equality3 days
Funding should be given to both police department and social community based programs
I think that we need to spend the money on rebuilding our police force from the ground up. Rehire, retrain and mental health checks before hiring, during the training and every month.
Increase funding to provide new training to all existing and new comer officers, regardless of how long their policing career has been as well as how violent their community is.
this is the most stupid question ive seen
Decrease the amount of funding for military equipment for police and use that for social and community programs
Some funding should be redirected to unarmed community based responders.
Increase training for police officers as well as direct funds to local community partnerships
The police should not be defunded. But I do believe that there needs to be a reevaluation of policies and how officers train.
It should either be redirected somewhat or training should be increased to prevent violence on the police behalf
No, require more extensive training. Many other countries require years of training and even schooling.
They should just be demilitarized, and only be able to carry pistols. Spending should be decreased, but we need armed police forces because it helps with protection of our cities and communities.
No, but create better restrictions and better watch on the police so they have less will do do things without permissions.
No, but spend much more time training and vetting potential officers and make sure that every police officer is fit for duty.
No, but other funding should be added for community/mental health based policing
Yes and no. Police need more support and better training. However, they also need to be held accountable for irresponsible actions. There also needs to be more community relations support.
Spending for local police departments should remain the same, but spending on social and community based programs should be increased.
no they should not take money away they just have to teach them how to do thigs right
No, but redistribute some of their funding to add psychologists to their team, increase mental health support in the community, and open more homeless shelters... but quite frankly make grants for that vs grants for additional police funding.
No, funding for prisons should be redirected to social and community based programs
No, increase training and awareness for police departments everywhere
Let's imagine a world where we can maintain police funding AND enhance funding for social and community based programs!
Deunionize the police and spend the finding on increased training
We should defund a little bit of money from the police and give it to schools and teachers because teachers get paid very little and they are the reasons why we even have more then half the jobs people have.
I believe they should focus on making the police they can be. This means that there should be more analyzing the officers and making sure they don’t cross the line
No, but end qualified immunity.
Decrease police funding, increase community and social programs.
No, Dont think police should loose funding. But, I do think, Police need longer training periods. Take Norway they require 3years of Training, Police in Finland take 2 years of training, Same with Iceland 2 years of training. THE USA requires just 21 weeks of training. We really need longer Training periods until you become a Officer.
It's not the federal government's place to decide anything about local police forces, and as such, this question is irrelevant to the presidential candidates.
No but some should go towards both train police differently
Police should have more funding, but redirect the funding into different types of de-escalation.
No, Federal Government should not be able to dictate what communities do.
I think they should stay where they area at because they are trained for situations they are in
No, but funding for those does need to increase
Yes, but funding needs to be redirected in police departments for more extensive training and officer education
No add more training and yearly reviews of the officers
Yes, and privatize all police departments
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