This Vox poll should end the 'defund the police' narrative once and for all

A new poll commissioned by Vox found, unsurprisingly, that “basically everyone — Democrat, Republican, young, old, white, black, brown — would feel safer with *more* police patrols in their neighborhoods”:

New poll from Data for Progress and Vox finds that basically everyone — Democrat, Republican, young, old, white, black, brown — would feel safer with *more* police patrols in their neighborhoods. https://t.co/5pJecRZaYR pic.twitter.com/eN6fyDCntM

— German Lopez (@germanrlopez) April 9, 2021

But we were told that “dEfUnD tHe PoLiCe!” was a winning issue for Dems?

Defund the Police may have been the dumbest political slogan of our lifetimes. https://t.co/nRFe9es837

— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) April 9, 2021

Apparently not!

Shocker!!! https://t.co/nf0jUGSYCC

— Robert A George (@RobGeorge) April 9, 2021

Dems really did misread the room:

This has been consistently true for months and months. People don't like bad cops, but they sure don't want the cops to leave their neighborhood. https://t.co/q7JqcInoqH

— Charles Fain Lehman (@CharlesFLehman) April 9, 2021

But, alas, they embraced the anti-cop narrative:

Who could have seen this coming other than anyone with any knowledge of decades worth of public-opinion polling?

(Not knocking German on this — he is one of the good ones.)

ANYHOO:https://t.co/pSkSxcmB4C https://t.co/qU9nguMUEI

— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) April 9, 2021

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Tag AOC and the other squad members in this one, please:

Twitter: It's not real life. https://t.co/s53uKW292u

— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) April 9, 2021

And another one for AOC and the squad:

people who want fewer police do not care about safety, that is not their ideological mission https://t.co/0fzJSSRqh1

— Joe Gabriel Simonson (@SaysSimonson) April 9, 2021

Yes, but “reform the police!” didn’t sell to the far-left base now running the Democrat party:

That’s one of two basic takeaways from this poll: Americans of different backgrounds and political stripes overwhelmingly *want* police in their neighbourhood.

The other takeaway: They also support several major reforms listed in this poll. https://t.co/yu19e8iBet https://t.co/4DmgFI98CG

— Alexander Panetta (@Alex_Panetta) April 9, 2021

Oh well!

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