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
This would lead to an increase in crime and likely put those unarmed community-based responders in danger whether or not they are responding to non-violent calls. Replacing police with these community responders would also be grossly inefficient and allow many more criminals to get away with crimes that real, trained police officers would likely be able to handle. When discussing the "defund the police" idea, you have to keep in mind that there are corrupt individuals in all professions. Just because specific police officers involved in various acts of corruption happen to be racist, hateful people doesn't necessarily mean that the entire institution is corrupt. A solution to this problem could be more transparency from police departments and stricter policies regarding training and hiring police officers. The solution should not be to defund the police, it should be to give them more funding and require that those funds be put towards positive change in the training and background check policies. Give them more funding so that we can revive police departments where the many have been subject to corruption of the few.
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