No, increase funding and training for police departments in higher crime rate communities

If the police isn't there to protect citizens, then who else is going to protect them? "Oh but the community!" They won't be there forever and there'll come to a point where you have to take into prospective that most of the corruption comes from the unions of the police and NOT the cops themselves.

14 Major democrat cities saw the homicide levels the highest ever after reducing the budget of the police.

defunding the police will increase crime, more funding and training for the police will decrease mistakes and crime.

Crime rates have been increasing since the defund the police movement began, and the best way to combat crime is to put more cops on the streets.

Defunding the police will cause a lot of crime like scenarios leading to issues that have happened in the past with the criminal ending up with harming more bystanders causing police to take hours or even days to deescalate the situation so it would be best if we fund the police with different programs and procedures to help the situations be easier to deescalate before anything going wrong

Increasing the funding and training of the police departments will allow officers to understand what they can do. This will increase options for officers before having to resort to drawing their guns.

the Police force has no reason to be defunded and with increased funding in areas of need they would be able to provide more service and protection

I think that all police officers require better training and more frequent training. A similar approach to the training that the military has where you are exposed to tense situations more frequently would benefit police officers.

Studies have been done that show increased police patrol lowers crime. In most communities, there is an average response time leading to the best outcome for victims. Increasing police presence reduces overall response times and gets them to the scene faster to help whatever potential victim is in need of service. Higher quality training leads to better officers and should include community input.

The only people who support defunding or dismantling the police are the very people the police are protecting us from. Defunding the police will decrease the amount of training they have, making the problem of misconduct worse, and reduce response times causing more preventable deaths. This is especially true since many of the left wing cities that defund the police have laws against carrying weapons for self defense.

Police officers who work in high crime rate communities have to work harder, They have a higher risk of getting killed. Increasing the funding towards them for training would make more sense because they need more training than police officers who work in a low crime rate community.

I believe that the only way to combat an issue with violence in communities is to increase funding for police departments.

Without the police the world be terrible and gun violence would be higher than ever. I think that defunding the police movement is just unbelievable that people think that could solve something.

I agree, we need to fund them more, and have them be able to make a call appropriate at the time, and make sure to watch for police that seem corrupted, or crooked.

Nearly 1 out of 5 non violent criminals became violent when being arrested, or detained by police officers.

More training and less militarization are the paths forward, along with a reduction of harmful and unnecessary laws that divert police attention from more important issues.

High crime should be taken care of, but the community shouldn't get all the funding the officers and the entire department work so hard for.

higher crime rate areas have a lot of people that know people, you need to be more trained and prepared for any situations that could be bigger and more serious then u were thinking of

More training equals less user error that can result in innocent deaths and for stations to provide training money is required. With decreasing police funding more and more criminals can run the streets and continue hurting innocent people who weren't involved.

They fricking protect you. their will always be on some level an abuse of power, a breaking of the law. We cant forever maintain perfection, to suggest its possible is folly. But this police officer, men and women, the only two genders, protect you and risk their lives everyday. Those Firefighters, paramedics, and social workers, whom you seem to revere, will not enter a dangerous situation, they wait till the cops secure the situation. I can also promise you you do not see the absolute vileness of humanity almost every single day, as many cops do. You do not now the horror they go through,…  Read more just so you can live your life without fear. Many of them have severe mental, physical, and finical issue, as if you are a cop, unless you are a high ranking member of the force, you will be making a lot of money. Also, I bet you didn't know this its the sherif county, who runs the correctional facilty, their freaking cops. Imgine fiends like Ted Bundy, and rapists prowling the streets. The reason you don't have to live with those beasts is because of cops. So freak you. if you disband the police force, then I would demand that for any situation you handle it yourself or call you local social worker, who by the way I do not believe they are open 24/7. Good luck and god speed. I regonize that this is just basicly a more enleagth paragraph of other arguments, but I just wanted to give my two sense.

The vast majority of police officers are good people who want to make society a safer place. We need to eliminate corruption and racism by removing the corrupt and racist officers. Additionally forces need to include more training to deal with mentally unstable people, this includes adding specialists to units (pay with wages originally tasked to the corrupt and racist who were removed).

After the BLM riots, police funding was moved into other sections in some cities, and in said cities we saw an increase in crime, a decrease in police quality work, a decrease in the security of the civilians, a decrease in the amount of private investments, which led to less available jobs and more poor people. What we need is better police officers, that are better trained and educated to deal with the problems of the community. A city without cops will be run by gangs, we've seen this countless times in history. We need good cops.

Places where police forces have been defunded and stripped of power, crime rates have skyrocketed, and those places have gotten to the point of being unlivable, and the people and corporations that pushed for less police are leaving those areas because no one can live there and no businesses can exist there.

There are areas of every community nationwide that have higher crime. The residents have higher needs. Training more officers for a wider variety of assistance will best swerve those communities.

The police should not be defunded at all, it is a messed up world and some “volunteer pansy *** helpers” are not gonna do anything to help protect the community.

Allowing more training and funding to these departments will allow lower crime rates and safer communities.

the cops can be a very good acting force if given the correct training, care and respect. with out the police we have no one to protect us. with more understanding police and better funding for health services we would be a lot better off

If you watch the news, and belive, it one way to solve the problem that is usually shown is that police mishandle a situation and so improving it can help the situation unless the department uses the money for the wrong things that can happen

Higher funding can result in better training, better tools, and better officers overall. In higher crime rate communities, it is likely that issues could be resolved better with better investigative techniques and tools to apprehend potential criminals.

More funding into police training not just paying them more if they are better trained they can lessen the amount of accidents or problems that have been caused by cops that suck at their job, they need to be held to a higher standard.

High rate of crimes should have higher spending on police to stop those crimes that makes logical sense

Defunding the police would raise the crime rate which is horrible because you wouldn't be able to live safely anymore, increasing the funding would further train the police to give better responses and bring the crime rate down which is good

If you train someone to deal with a lower crime rate, they won't know how to deal with higher crime rate because they were not taught to be able to deal with that situation

The police protect the community. For our country to function we need the laws to be maintained. Issues with police action should be resolved in court.

If we were to train the police officers in places with higher crime rates then the people of that community would be more safe.

So they can deal with moments where it may seem very dangerous but they can handle a situation with the right training and resources.