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zpallin | 5 years ago

Interesting, do you have a link?

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ghayes|5 years ago

Not OP, but this Vox article has some interesting information about race disparities in viewpoints of police.

[0] https://www.vox.com/2020/6/3/21276824/defund-police-divest-e...

zpallin|5 years ago

Nice. This is very interesting. I suppose it would be hard to make any assumptions about the reasoning here. At least Vox interprets this as black people "view inadequate protection and inadequate service levels as part of the larger pattern of mistreatment." That's entirely reasonable. If someone were to believe that the police institution itself is not racist, and it's just the individual cops who are the problem, then it's fair to come to the conclusion that more policing may solve the very real issue of crime in black communities.

However, just like the author of the article, I agree that we would need to see a similar poll now after the George Floyd protests to see if the opinion still stands, but it's important to note.