

Policy Area
Priority Level
Last Updated
Policing
Short-Term
January 21, 2024
The RPC will legislate the significant expansion of public safety and community support services, such as social workers and emergency mental health intervention specialists, to alleviate pressure on overworked and undertrained police forces.
The government monopoly on the sanctioned use of force has numerous dramatic advantages and inherent problems, the main issue being its tendency to be politicized, manipulated, and corrupted by outside influences.​
A self-reinforcing cycle of asking too much of an impossibly unprepared group and politicizing their successes and failures has resulted in a police force that has lost their original purpose. We want to invest heavily in an entirely modernized police force that prioritizes protecting all human life - including their own lives - over all types of property crime.