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Originally Posted by Crown Royal
I have a great deal of respect for the good cops that are out there, my life was saved by two of them. But you also have to realize that moving that money into other areas will ease their burden too, because they are asked to do several things that they aren't trained for. That money could be used to train social workers to go with police for things like welfare checks. I agree wholeheartedly about deescalation training, it is something that is desperately needed, using their gun should always be a last resort.
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CR, I'm curious to know what your thoughts would be on increasing funding to the various social agencies/programs that could offload some of the responsibilities currently held by police, but
without reducing police funding.
Aside from being a terrible slogan for all sorts of reasons, I'm not actually sure "defund the police" is what people who advocate for it actually want. Don't they really want better funding for social agencies/programs, and some of these agencies handling matters that the police are currently tasked with? It doesn't seem to me that the funding of these agencies/programs
must come from police budgets.
In fact, it could be argued that by offloading some of the social duties police perform, their resources could be better spent on complex criminal investigations and better training.