With the recent announcement by Ontario Premier Doug Ford that he intends to create a police pipeline to keep people safe, it was time for another discussion around defunding the police.

Points of discussion include:

• Actual numbers around crime and policing
• Free tuition and post secondary requirements for Police
• Contrasts between need for nurses and funding for police recruits
• The end of a nursing program in Toronto
• The dangerous law and order rhetoric being hyped up by TO Mayoral Race
• Capital’s need for police in end stage capitalism
• Doug Ford’s special relationship with Police
• The repercussions of a heavily funded and armed police state

Sources:

• Police personnel and expenditures in Canada, 2021
• Reported Crime by Province
• CBC News: Ontario scrapping post-secondary education requirement for police recruits