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Defund the police

I believe that their are so many steps in providing adequate living and equality in Ottawa. My first belief is that we must defund our police. The police force is expected to deal with so many unique circumstances, such as mental health issues, homelessness, sexual assault, crime and more. All these problems are so different from each other, and therefore, they require specific training. Right now, police are required to handle all these issues without the proper knowledge and training that they need. This results in violent encounters, which otherwise could be peaceful if we had other authorities who specialized in each of these problems to handle them.

I believe that this is extremely necessary, since we see the systemic racism in our society that has been oppressing Indigenous and Black Canadians for centuries through our judicial system. I believe that an important step towards racial reconciliation would be defunding the police.

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