Fandlauer
Registered User
as an example of what property taxes actually go towards, here’s a breakdown for Toronto.
There’s plenty to cut if there’s less need for officers. Get rid of beat cops, have unarmed social workers respond to mental health and drug calls. That’s probably over half of what police are dealing with now, and as has been shown time and time again, they’re not good at doing it. That’s not their fault, these are complicated issues that cops aren’t properly trained to deal with.
It’s not idealistic to think we can eradicate poverty and better support mentally ill and drug addicted people. It should actually be the number one priority of our society.
There’s several studies that estimate the cost to ending homeless in Canada to be less than 50 billion over ten years. This isn’t that much, and if it were done, there would be far less need for the bloated police budgets we have now.
The bolded is idealistic nonsense. I think having social workers present and even being able to take the lead on these calls would be great. That being said, sending them into many of these situations with no armed presence and all you will end up with is dead social workers. There has to be individuals present who are capable of physically restraining someone if need be.
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