Posted on 09/19/2020 4:21:08 AM PDT by USA Conservative
A majority of likely U.S. voters believes the country is experiencing a war on police and that politicians should enact policy classifying attacks on cops as hate crimes, according to a new poll.
Released on Thursday, Rasmussen's polling came amid a wave of calls to defund police and a swell in anti-police sentiment. Since 2018, the percentage of likely voters who believes there's a war on cops has increased from 43% to 59%.
The latest data represented a slight uptick from the 58% high reported in 2015. Meanwhile, 29% disagreed with that view and 12% reported as undecided. The poll has a 3% margin of error.
Rasmussen conducted the poll with 1,000 likely voters on Sept. 15-16, as news surfaced that law enforcement officers were attacked in Compton, Calif., and other cities. Last weekend, footage emerged in which an assailant walked up to a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department car and shot two deputies who were inside, wounding them.
Those types of attacks should be considered hate crimes, according to 59% of likely voters. Support for those so-called "Blue Lives Matter" laws is unchanged from 2016 when Rasmussen polled the issue. That proposal, previously adopted by Louisiana, faced opposition from 25% of voters while 16% were undecided.
The polling also revealed racial disparities in support for those laws. While Blacks (52% vs. 63%) were less likely to support Blue Lives Matter laws, they were more likely than Whites (84% vs. 66%) to worry about deadly attacks leading to a shortage of police officers.
Repubicans are more likely than Democrats to support those laws (80% vs. 39%) and support "Blue Lives Matter" in their state (79% vs. 45%).
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It would be nice if cops cared as much about the safety of the Blue Lives Matter crowd.
An attack on a cop should be treated as the exact same as an attack on me.
There should be no such thing as “hate crimes” either.
Equal protection under the law.
Agree 100%. I understand the sentiment behind this but no special rights.
How ‘bout we start by enforcing the laws currently on the books.
Hard to justify stiffer penalties to protect cops when these same cops are refusing to do their jobs as they are currently defined.
I agree with your first sentence, but the not the second.
I think they are being ordered to stand down.
The fish rots from the head.
BLUE LIVES MATTER: “YEA” box has been checked on my ballot.
Repeal all hate crime laws. Hate can be defined any which way. They are unconstitutional.
+1
We’ve become a “do something” culture, and that’s anathema to our rule of law. There are already laws on the book for assault, battery, murder. Enforce them for God’s sake!
Right, its already illegal to attack a police officer.
The killing of a cop,quick trail and execution no death row, attempts and attacks mandatory 25 years no parole
It would entirely depend upon the actual content of any “blue lives matter” legislation. I do not believe someone should get a longer sentence just because the victim is a cop. Justice should be applied equally, regardless of the ‘status’ of the victim.
In general, I couldn’t support such laws.
it’s not just ambushes.
Here’s a lovely that’s wanted for bashing a police officer in the face with his skateboard, but the FBI needs to up that $1K reward if they want him fast - and they should want to want him fast:
https://thepostmillennial.com/fbi-seeks-accused-rioter-previously-released-by-portland-police
the same penalties allowed for judges on contempt of court should apply to disrespecting and assaulting police. judge Dredd type action.
Hate crimes are a form of thought crimes...plus they're too easy to use by people addicted to victim-hood.
http://www.fakehatecrimes.org/
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