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Originally Posted by GirlySports

This defunding the police is interesting.


What would be example of something police handles today but would not handle in the new proposed system?

https://www.joincampaignzero.org/#vision

https://static1.squarespace.com/stat...o+Policing.pdf

Only 5% of all arrests made in America are for violent crimes. Meanwhile, the vast majority of arrests are for low level offenses that pose no threat to public safety. Police departments should decriminalize or de-prioritize enforcement of these issues. And cities should begin scaling up the role of mental health providers, substance abuse counselors and other community-based responses to these issues that are more effective and that do not risk exposing communities to police violence.
• Decriminalize or de-prioritize enforcement of low-level offenses, including drug possession, public intoxication, loitering, jaywalking, disorderly conduct and prostitution.
• Establish enforceable bans on police racial profiling as well as bans on the use of consent searches, pretext stops and stop-and-frisk. (Examples of these policies include the
NYC Racial Profiling ban, NYC Stop-and-Frisk reform, Rhode Island consent search ban)
• Establish alternative responses to mental health crises and issues like homelessness and substance abuse, including by deploying first responser teams of mental health providers and community intervention workers to the scene to handle these issues instead of police officers. (Eugene Oregon "Cahoots" First Responder Program)
• Reduce police budgets in accordance with the reduction in policing that results from ending the enforcement of low-level offenses and redistribute these funds into scaling up community-based alternatives

The website above goes into a lot of detail with references to results in current areas of the country where it is applied. A major area to change focus would be Drug Policy and Mental Health.