Perhaps people should look at what is actually being discussed by Mark Neufeld, Nenshi, and others regarding what exactly they are thinking of doing.
The way they're currently talking about it, any reduction in police budget or police presence will likely be directly towards where CPS recognizes they are not the right responders. The issue is that they have become the defacto response for everything, when they simply don't need to be.
It's worth paying attention to the Calgary-specific conversations going on, not the blanket-generalized "defund the police" and applying that to Calgary without context.
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