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Old 04-12-2021, 02:02 PM   #353517
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Re: *Prompter Thread* (NO personal attacks, NO trolling)

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Originally Posted by kydmb99 View Post
I wonder what the people (many of whom are minority) who live in areas with higher crime rates think about the “defund the police” idea
just say what you want to say. everyone needs to cut the questioning and passive voice. you don't actually wonder.

if you wondered, you would look up the data and provide it. instead you just want to vaguely gesture towards some shit.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics...or-misconduct/

"The survey finds little support for reducing spending on policing. Just 25% of Americans say spending on policing in their area should be decreased, with only 12% saying it should be decreased a lot; another 14% say it should be reduced a little.

A 73% majority say that spending on their local police should stay about the same as it is now (42%) or be increased from its current level (31%). While Black adults are more likely than whites to favor cuts in police budgets, fewer than half of Black adults (42%) say spending on policing in their areas should be reduced. That is double the share of white adults who favor cutting funding for their local police (21%).

There also are sizable age differences in views of funding for policing. Among both Black and white adults, those under age 50 are far more likely to support decreased funding for police in their areas than are those 50 and older.

Overall, a majority of Americans (58%) say that police around the country are doing an excellent or good job of protecting people from crimes – a view held by 78% of Republicans and Republican leaners but 43% of Democrats and Democratic leaners. Two-thirds of white adults (67%) say the police are doing a good or excellent job of protecting people, while just 28% of Black adults say the same. Half of Hispanic adults say police do an excellent or good job of protecting people.

There are racial and ethnic divides among Democrats in these views: While just 27% of Black Democrats say police do an excellent or good job protecting people from crime (and fully 72% say they do a poor job of this), about half of white Democrats (49%) and 42% of Hispanic Democrats say the same."

% who say spending on policing IN YOUR AREA should be...

42% of black respondents think it should be decreased, 22% increased, 33% remain about the same.

21% of white respondents think it should be decreased, 33% increased, 44% remain about the same.

24% of hispanic respondents think it should be decreased, 37% increased, 39% remain about the same.

none of this is novel or shocking! these seem entirely in line with what people's general sentiment is, and what the sentiments of our elected representatives are.

about a quarter of the population favors reduced police funding in their communities, certainly not "nobody" as drak contends.
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