{"id":2083,"date":"2020-09-29T11:32:42","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T18:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=2083"},"modified":"2020-09-29T11:33:53","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T18:33:53","slug":"poll-public-strongly-supports-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=2083","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Public Strongly Supports Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A poll of 10,000 people conducted in July by The Democracy Fund and UCLA found that fairly large majorities of both Democrats and Republicans oppose defunding police departments.\u00a0 <span class=\"css-1baulvz\">Lynn Vavreck<\/span> and <span class=\"css-1baulvz last-byline\">Chris Tausanovitch of the New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/09\/21\/upshot\/americans-mostly-agree-on-policing-the-difference-is-priorities.html\">report<\/a> that the survey indicated that 86% of Republicans, 78% of independents and 61% of Democrats want to maintain funding for police.\u00a0 Add to this, last month&#8217;s Gallup <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/316571\/black-americans-police-retain-local-presence.aspx\">poll<\/a> which found that 81% of blacks either want to maintain the current level of policing in their neighborhoods or increase it, and one might well ask&#8230;who the hell does Black Lives Matter represent? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Other interesting findings from the survey include strong majorities in both political parties that support a ban on chokeholds\u00a0 and universal background checks for gun purchasers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poll of 10,000 people conducted in July by The Democracy Fund and UCLA found that fairly large majorities of both Democrats and Republicans oppose defunding police departments.\u00a0 Lynn Vavreck and Chris Tausanovitch of the New York Times report that the survey indicated that 86% of Republicans, 78% of independents and 61% of Democrats want to maintain funding for police.\u00a0 Add to this, last month&#8217;s Gallup poll which found that 81% of blacks either want to maintain the current level of policing in their neighborhoods or increase it, and one might well ask&#8230;who the hell does Black Lives Matter represent?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Poll: Public Strongly Supports Police - Crime &amp; 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