{"id":55832,"date":"2020-06-10T05:45:32","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T10:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=55832"},"modified":"2020-06-10T05:45:32","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T10:45:32","slug":"55832","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=55832","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Rasmussen: Majority Oppose Cutting Local Police Budgets<\/a><\/p>\n

Only 27 percent of the survey respondents want to reduce police budgets, and 14 percent are undecided, according to Rasmussen.<\/p>\n

Sentiments run along party lines, the new report revealed. Republicans are more reluctant than Democrats or Independents to cut police funding, and \u201cthose under 40 like the idea a lot more than their elders do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another disturbing revelation of the Rasmussen poll is that 16 percent of Americans think most police officers are racist in the aftermath of Floyd\u2019s death while in Minneapolis police custody May 25. That\u2019s up 10 percent from a year ago, Rasmussen said.<\/p>\n

However, 67 percent \u201cstill rate the performance of their local police as good or excellent.\u201d<\/p>\n

But officials in Minneapolis, Seattle and other cities are joining the anti-police chorus. Minneapolis Council President Lisa Bender\u00a0told CNN,<\/a>\u00a0\u201cWe committed to dismantling policing as we know it in the city of Minneapolis and to rebuild with our community a new model of public safety that actually keeps our community safe.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Seattle<\/a>, Councilwoman Teresa Mosqueda tweeted, \u201cHow many people have to call for the police to be defunded before the Mayor embraces radical change?\u201d<\/p>\n

She added, \u201cThe problem is\u2013the weapons aren\u2019t illegal, the tactics aren\u2019t illegal, the riot gear isn\u2019t illegal. We have allowed them, we have funded them, and that is why WE need to change.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Rasmussen survey found other interesting opinions.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven among blacks,\u201d Rasmussen said, \u201conly 27% think there are too many cops, although that compares to 15% of whites and 17% of other minority Americans. Blacks (36%) are more enthusiastic than whites (25%) and other minorities (24%) about defunding the police and channeling that money into more social services.\u201d<\/p>\n

The survey was conducted June 7-8 by Rasmussen Reports with a+\/- 3 percentage point margin of sampling error and a 95 percent level of confidence.<\/p>\n

Another revelation is that 77 percent of adults say crime remains a serious problem in the country today with 38 percent saying it is \u201cvery serious.\u201d<\/p>\n

What happens if police agencies are \u201cde-funded\u201d or dismantled and rebuilt?<\/p>\n

According to\u00a0CNN<\/a>, what happened in Camden, N.J. might provide a hint. The story noted, \u201cBefore its police reforms, Camden was routinely named one of the most violent cities in the US. Now, seven years after the old department was booted (though around 100 officers were rehired), the city\u2019s crime has dropped by close to half. Officers host outdoor parties for residents and knock on doors to introduce themselves. It\u2019s a radically different Camden than it was even a decade ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

But will the Camden model work elsewhere?<\/p>\n

In some communities, including\u00a0Coeur d\u2019Alene, Idaho<\/a>, and the cities of Snohomish and Kirkland in neighboring Washington, citizens tried a different approach to fears of violent protest. They turned out in big numbers, visibly armed. It apparently had a deterrent effect, since there have been no problems in any of those communities.<\/p>\n

Perhaps a quote in the\u00a0Spokane Spokesman-Review<\/a>\u00a0summed it up.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there are two types of people,\u201d Coeur d\u2019Alene\u2019s Mike Marquardt said. \u201cThe good people who are here to get a message across, and we are here to support and protect them. Then there are those who come to take advantage of the situation and cause trouble. We are here to protect against those.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rasmussen: Majority Oppose Cutting Local Police Budgets Only 27 percent of the survey respondents want to reduce police budgets, and 14 percent are undecided, according to Rasmussen. Sentiments run along party lines, the new report revealed. Republicans are more reluctant than Democrats or Independents to cut police funding, and \u201cthose under 40 like the idea … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-order","category-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55833,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55832\/revisions\/55833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}