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I do not support "defunding the police". This reminds me of George Bush's "No Child Left Behind policy", which redirected funds to schools based on their aptitude in order to improve America's education. This had negative consequences and only further harmed struggling schools. I do not see these sort of policies as helpful. I would argue the police departments actually need more funding or at least serious revisions. The police are not supposed to be our enemy and we need to seriously revise that. Stronger application procedures, psychological tests, improved training. "Defunding the police", as the con article stated, would only cause more harm.

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The money should be redistributed to mental health institutions, social workers, counselors in school, housing, and better police training

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Police reform is without a doubt necessary, but I do not support "defunding the police". I think that defunding the police does little to change who is actually holding the guns, which is most important. Redistribution of police is one action that could be taken to lessen tensions in areas heavily concentrated with police officers. Also , extensive training and psychological tests to see if there is some racial bias present in someone's mind could be more effective then redistributing police funds.

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I do believe some sort of reform can be done to the police system. I don't think it's as bad as some might think, but it can always be better. I think the best way to make it better, however, is to provide better training, specifically high-stress situation training. This would need increased funding as opposed to the defunding that is supported by others.

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I personally don't support defunding the police, and I don't think that this will resemble the increase in safety.

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I think defunding the police is a start because right now they have way too much funding that could be reallocated to schools, housing, health institutions

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I don't support defunding the police, but I do think there needs to be budget changes so that financially neglected units of the police get the funds they need. In cities especially, crime units are severely underfunded, which leads to many serious crimes such as burglary, raper, and murder

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the money should go to help the underprivileged and people who are victims of police brutality. the money should also be spent on bettering the community in general, whether that be providing more resources for mental health, hunger, etc.

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Reform that allows everyone to be protected by the police rather than harmed is necessary. The concern is that by defunding police, you are taking away the money and resources that can be used to help improve the police system.

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I believe there needs to be some reform in the police system, because clearly many practices by officers have been unregulated, and this really hasn't been recognized until the past couple of years. The incidents of wrongful killings have been occurring way too often.

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I don't think defunding the police is the best route. I believe police reform is necessary and measures should be taken to prevent police brutality but taking funds away from the people who are supposed to prevent all out anarchy from erupting due to lack of enforcement of the laws isn't really a good idea.

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I don't support de funding the police. First, do not support the language used in these slogans. After further research on a lot of the rhetoric use, it is clear that some people who support the phrase "defund the police" are solely advocating for budget cuts while other want to abolish it all together. I think that the rhetoric needs to be ironed out. I do think there needs to be a required sum to be distributed system that goes towards mental health and better training.

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Yes I definitely think reform needs to occur. The issues that are occurring with the police are as a result of ignorance and a lack of proper education. While I see the importance if police, I do not think that they currently are being successful at their job. Reform and further education needs to be had throughout the system.

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I do support defunding the police. I think that the budget going towards the force would be more beneficial in the long run if it went to community programs such as education, mental facilities, and community programs. In reality, police don't really prevent crime, they get there after they happen. I think we should turn our attention to preventing crimes on the community level and work on levels of incarceration.

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Yes, I think our police system definitely needs reform because it is obvious through our current events and events of the past that it is an unfair system.

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While I do feel that there is a problem with the police system in America, I feel that the solution/improvement to that issue comes from reform within the organization and not taking funds away that support important programs run by the police.

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Yes, definitely. It can be seen time and time again that police officers abuse their power and are improperly trained at how to respond to certain criminal situations.

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abolish the police

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I think that it depends on the ethnicity of the community. White people don't have the same perspective as African Americans do with the police as white people aren't targeted because of their race. The heavy presence of police is definitely more beneficial to white communities over black communities for this reason.

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I support abolishing the police because I do not think they actually protect people, at least not effectively. Lots of people say they stop crime, but they don't, they are only there after crimes occur, police don’t even work to stop crime, and there are ways to do that if you focus on why crimes occur in the first place (more funding for mental health, poverty, biases against different groups of people)

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Yes, the police do not help people