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There's absolutely a meaningful divide along party-political lines on confidence in the police and belief that they are doing a good job in protecting the popul

There's absolutely a meaningful divide along party-political lines on confidence in the police and belief that they are doing a good job in protecting the population from crime. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/01/13/republicans-more-likely-than-democrats-to-have-confidence-in-police/ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/01/13/republicans...

user3939382 5y ago
I think the divide is PR to shepherd people into the Democratic party https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-squad-enables-pelosis-massive https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-squad-enables-pelosis-m...
pessimizer 5y ago
In voters, but not in their political representatives, who are pretty unanimous.
what_is_orcas 5y ago
James Carville said, on PBS News Hour, that defunding the police was a losing strategy, which effectively told the voters where the establishment (even the left-leaning establishment) stands. US politics are conservative. The "left" is middling-at-best. There's also the concern of how police react to the "defund" movement. There have been a ton of accusations that the police slow down on purpose when their budgets get threatened because an increase in visible "crime" (in quotes because I don't think homelessness should be criminalized, but seems to be the underlying factor of a lot of what gets called crime near where I live) gets all sorts of people to call for an increase in funding.
prepend 5y ago
What I meant is that both parties fund the police so it seems like pew polls don’t seem to affect policy much. Biden literally pushed crime bills way back when. And I don’t have any hope that the democrats will pass any police reform given they control Congress and the executive. There’s such easy reform too that could be done by executive order like stopping police from purchasing military equipment or linking funding to reporting police violence stats.

user3939382 5y ago

I think the divide is PR to shepherd people into the Democratic party https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-squad-enables-pelosis-massive https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-squad-enables-pelosis-m...

pessimizer 5y ago

In voters, but not in their political representatives, who are pretty unanimous.

what_is_orcas 5y ago

James Carville said, on PBS News Hour, that defunding the police was a losing strategy, which effectively told the voters where the establishment (even the left-leaning establishment) stands. US politics are conservative. The "left" is middling-at-best. There's also the concern of how police react to the "defund" movement. There have been a ton of accusations that the police slow down on purpose when their budgets get threatened because an increase in visible "crime" (in quotes because I don't think homelessness should be criminalized, but seems to be the underlying factor of a lot of what gets called crime near where I live) gets all sorts of people to call for an increase in funding.

prepend 5y ago

What I meant is that both parties fund the police so it seems like pew polls don’t seem to affect policy much. Biden literally pushed crime bills way back when. And I don’t have any hope that the democrats will pass any police reform given they control Congress and the executive. There’s such easy reform too that could be done by executive order like stopping police from purchasing military equipment or linking funding to reporting police violence stats.