Criminologists Temitope Oriole and Kevin Walby offer differing views on the NDP's plan to hire equal amounts of police officers and social support workers.
I’m not sold on abolition. I think that’s an admirable goal to strive towards, but in my view we should do what some politicians advocated but never followed through on in 2020. Take funds from ballooning police budgets and give them to the social services that have consistently been defunded.
In your wisdom, Jeremy...what do you see is the way towards a healthy, sustainable, just society? More police, more social workers, both?
I’m not sold on abolition. I think that’s an admirable goal to strive towards, but in my view we should do what some politicians advocated but never followed through on in 2020. Take funds from ballooning police budgets and give them to the social services that have consistently been defunded.