Community safety = community care

If you were successful at addressing local priorities you would at the VERY least defund but ideally abolish the police force. I would feel safer if appropriately trained community members responded to my calls of distress. Instead of violent, and often racist, police officers responding to "wellness checks", an individual trained in mental health would be more appropriate. Instead of sending armed (and often aggressive/aggressively violent) individuals to respond to every call, a group of community members trained in de-escalation would be less threatening and would likely result in less injury/deaths.