2. Redirect funds to alternatives outside of police departments.
- Traffic accident investigators, unarmed traffic monitors
- Mental health professionals and peer support
- Outreach workers, housing providers
- Trained domestic violence counselors, de-escalators, and crisis intervention teams
- Domestic and intimate partner violence response
- Substance use counselors, street nurses, injection sites, peer recovery outreach
- Peer “walking counselors”
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