Posted on 02/10/2022 7:17:38 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Roughly 75 percent of registered voters believe defunding police departments is either a “major” or “minor” reason for rising violent crime in the United States, a new Morning Consult/Politico poll found.
The survey, conducted on Feb. 5-6 with 2,005 registered voters and a ±2 percentage point margin of error, found that nearly half — 49 percent — think defunding police departments is a “major reason” for rising violent crime. Twenty-six percent believe cutting funds is a minor reason, and a quarter of those polled do not think defunding police departments have contributed to rising violent crime at all.
The survey results come as Democrats largely back away from the “Defund the Police” movement — polling and overall public sentiment have revealed that slashing police budgets in the name of “equity” and subsequent rising crime, usually in poorer and already vulnerable neighborhoods, is wildly unpopular with voters as the midterms approach.
The Democrat Party, corporate media, and President Joe Biden, not including far-leftists like Rep. Cori Bush (D-MI), in recent weeks, have disowned the very movement they promoted during the summer of 2020 and the Black Lives Matter protests and riots. At the time, far-left activists demanded the defunding of police departments across the United States, with several big-city Democrat mayors and city councils capitulating to their demands.
Democrats in some cities allowed protesters to storm and burn police precincts as a form of “racial reckoning,” and mayors slashed budgets by the millions, often eradicating positions and closing specialized programs. Many of these cities were already struggling to recruit — an issue which has increased drastically, only to be exacerbated by vaccine mandates.
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Good Job democrats.
The GOP could have never raised awareness of the importance of police funding like you have.
Something’s wrong with those numbers:
There’s NO WAY that only 25% of Americans are dumbasses.
I hate them more than ever after all the cop bashing they did during the funerals for the 2 cops murdered on the job in NYC. I never seen anything like it, absolutely disgusting, even celebrities bashing them.
Those 25% are college-educated idealogues who cannot change their world view based on reality. They never observe that communism and socialism have been abysmal failures everywhere it is tried.
Oh yes there’s 25% which is the BLM radical!
And 25% are too prideful to admit they voted for defunding the police and they are stooopid as stupid gets. These 25% should be tagged like an invasive species and followed.
That's true! But even a lot of dumbasses know how stupid it is to defund the police.
75 % have come to realize common sense - now if only they could vote that way 🤪
duh
Beat me to it.
No sh_t. Along with zero bail, immediate release, cops told to stand down or kneel - funding or not, etc.
Who would even poll such a stupid question?
Agreed
Don’t forget the Soros prosecutors who won’t prosecute.
George Soros funded DA’s have contributed MORE to Rising Violent Crime.
In Dallas you can steal $800/Day and noone will bother you.
$800 Day will fund a lot of guns.
“25% are brain-dead.”
They are the criminals.
Yeah I didn’t understand that either.
It’s bad enough to do it when a cop makes a mistake. But to hate on them just because they are cops is true evil.
I don’t even care anymore. The cops have turned into the enemy
I think once police start cracking the skulls of the trickers people may feel differently.
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