A former police chief in Winnipeg is adding his voice to the chorus calling for police officers to be separated from duties that have little if anything to do with law enforcement.
, which means moving the responsibility to respond to some emergencies from police to a new and hopefully less deadly form of law enforcement, and redirecting a large portion of police budgets to the new initiative.
"We recognize that the current model is not serving the individual or community effectively. It's incumbent on us to … devise a much better approach," he said. "Ultimately … what we were seeing as crime was just the symptoms of deeper social issues within the community," he said.
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