Poll: 55% of Democrats Support ‘Defund the Police’; 64% of Americans Oppose

Breitbart ^ | June 12 2020 | JOEL B. POLLAK

[knighthawk]

A new poll released Friday showed that 55% of Democrats approve of calls by the Black Lives Matter movement to “defund the police” — though 64% of the country as a whole opposes the idea.

ABC News reported:

Strong majorities of Americans oppose the movement to “defund the police” and some of its most significant goals, specifically reshuffling funding away from law enforcement to support mental health, housing and education programs, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll released Friday finds.

Nearly two-thirds of Americans oppose calls for defunding police departments, compared to 34% who back the movement, and 60% specifically oppose reducing the budget for police to reallocate it to other public health and social programs, while 39% support that move.

[Songcraft]

How many people think this is the correct ear for Joe Biden to hang his mask on, and how many people think he should switch it over to his other ear?

      

[maxwellsmart_agent]

What this shows is the mentality of the democrats. Who are they going to call with a problem, a liberal?

[4Liberty]

[rrrod]

Americans vs Democrats.

[Repeal 16-17]

ABC/Ipsos have been some of the most slanted of all polls, and that’s saying a lot.

This poll saying 64% of Americans are against abolishing the police means at least 85% are against instituting The Purge.

[fortheDeclaration]

You mean the soccer moms who are buying guns in record numbers?

[snarkytart]

I hope these suburban mom’s are seeing this as a safety issue and not some touchy feely social issue.

[GMMC0987]

Interesting that they had to differentiate between Democrats and Americans.

[lurk]

This move to eliminate the police is going to see a proportionate rise in defensive firearm ownership. Might be a good time to put a few $ in those stock holdings.

[Aliska]

Breaking news. May not have it exactly right but Minneapolis City Council voted to defund or disband the police. They proposed some alternative but I didn’t catch it. iHeart radio was the source.

[DownInFlames]

Better be able to shoot.

[rightwingcrazy]

I imagine, among the 35% that said they support defunding, a goodly number thought they meant “defending”, another bunch thought that all it meant was “take away their armored personnel carriers”, and another bunch just wanted to say “they’re probably all Trump supporters, so to hell with them”.

I imagine maybe 5% of Americans have really thought it through and decided “yes, I want to get of the police.” Most of those are elite members of the Democrat party. The rest are convicted or aspiring felons.

[blackdog]

Hmmmm.....Not far however from "Defund Government".

Be careful with this monster dimwits.

[9YearLurker]

What % of that idiotic 55% of Dems who are for defunding the police favor the attempted Marxist revolution for our country, now in progress, for which such an idiotic goal was developed?

[higgmeister]

I believe we need to wait a few days for the suggestion to sink into empty heads that Federal Marshals will step in when local police are kaput.

Marshal Wyatt Earp here we come!

[elbook]

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I’m sure a system can be created which will tell whether a house/business/individual is a ‘defunder’ so that the police DONT have to come save them.

Commit crimes and the police still will show up, though.

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