{"id":1779,"date":"2020-08-05T15:35:34","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T22:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=1779"},"modified":"2020-08-05T15:35:34","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T22:35:34","slug":"blacks-overwhelmingly-want-the-police-presence-they-have-now-or-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=1779","title":{"rendered":"Blacks Overwhelmingly Want the Police Presence They Have Now — or More."},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the narratives we hear constantly from the Left is that African Americans distrust the police and want their malign presence in black neighborhoods decreased if not eliminated.\u00a0 Like so much else we hear from progressives\u00a0 —\u00a0 the people who ceaselessly wail that we need to pay more attention to “fact-based” this and “evidence-based” that\u00a0 —\u00a0 their claims are not merely fact-free but affirmatively false.\u00a0 According to a Gallup poll released today<\/a>, more blacks than whites want increased<\/em> police patrolling in their neighborhoods.<\/p>\n

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An article<\/a> from National Review has a good summary of the poll’s findings\u00a0 —\u00a0 findings that Gallup introduces with a sub-heading that, “most [African Americans] (81%) want police to spend same amount of or more time in their area.”<\/p>\n

Got that?\u00a0 Eighty-one percent<\/strong> want the same amount of patrolling or more.\u00a0 The willingness of the Left aggressively to lie about this is astonishing.<\/p>\n

Here is Gallup’s table summarizing its main findings:<\/p>\n

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Would you rather the police spend more time, the same amount of time or less time as they currently spend in your area?<\/em><\/div>\n

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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\nMore time<\/th>\nSame amount of time<\/th>\nLess time<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n%<\/span><\/th>\n%<\/span><\/th>\n%<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Black Americans<\/th>\n20<\/td>\n61<\/td>\n19<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
White Americans<\/th>\n17<\/td>\n71<\/td>\n12<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hispanic Americans<\/th>\n24<\/td>\n59<\/td>\n17<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Asian Americans<\/th>\n9<\/td>\n63<\/td>\n28<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
U.S. adults<\/th>\n19<\/td>\n67<\/td>\n14<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
GALLUP PANEL, JUNE 23-JULY 6, 2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tfoot>\n<\/table>\n

One of the oddities of the poll, at least to me, is that Asian Americans were considerably less well-disposed to the police, although they are arrested in disproportionately small numbers.<\/p>\n

The National Review article continues:<\/p>\n

Among the general population, 67 percent of Americans say they want the police presence near them to remain the same, with 71 percent of white Americans saying so. A majority of other minority communities also said they do not want to see fewer police officers patrolling their neighborhoods, with 59 percent of Hispanics preferring the current police presence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Overall, a whooping 86% of Americans want the same or more policing, while only 14% want less.\u00a0 And lest it be thought that the poll fails to reflect attitudes that might have changed against the police in the aftermath of the George Floyd killing, National Review notes this:<\/p>\n

The Gallup poll was taken after weeks of unrest in metropolitan areas around the country over police tactics involving interactions with minority communities, particularly black Americans. Protests and riots broke out in May in many cities following the police custody death of George Floyd, a black man who died after a white Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck as he pleaded for air….Calls to defund police have been particularly prevalent in Portland, Ore. and Seattle, Wash., both of which are predominantly white cities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The woke crowd might be fooled into believing that the police are The Enemy, but African Americans, who (unlike the Wokesters) are disproportionately the victims of crime, know better.<\/p>\n

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One of the narratives we hear constantly from the Left is that African Americans distrust the police and want their malign presence in black neighborhoods decreased if not eliminated.\u00a0 Like so much else we hear from progressives\u00a0 —\u00a0 the people who ceaselessly wail that we need to pay more attention to “fact-based” this and “evidence-based” that\u00a0 —\u00a0 their claims are not merely fact-free but affirmatively false.\u00a0 According to a Gallup poll released today, more blacks than whites want increased police patrolling in their neighborhoods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polls"],"yoast_head":"\nBlacks Overwhelmingly Want the Police Presence They Have Now - or More. - Crime & Consequences<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=1779\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Blacks Overwhelmingly Want the Police Presence They Have Now - 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