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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 4911580" data-attributes="member: 48469">Democrats are going to get shellacked next year and in 2024 over this stuff. Moderates disapprove of it big time and so do a large chunk of Democrats. Even in New York. It&#039;s a losing issue for Democrats nearly everywhere.[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://nypost.com/2021/06/19/post-poll-shows-progressives-push-to-defund-nypd-not-in-line-with-dem-voters/[/URL]&quot;Progressive <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/06/17/maya-wiley-blasts-nypd-as-ineffective-wants-1b-cut/" target="_blank">proponents of defunding the NYPD</a> are out of touch with the city’s Democratic electorate — with worries about crime and safety the greatest among the party’s lower-income and minority voters, a poll commissioned by The Post has found.Opposition to last year’s <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/29/de-blasio-plans-to-cut-nypd-budget-by-1b-as-nyc-shootings-spike/" target="_blank">$1 billion NYPD budget cut</a> was also strongest in the crime-ridden Bronx, where more than 60 percent of respondents said they disapproved of the move by the City Council and Mayor Bill de Blasio.A Brooklyn cop said of the results, “It doesn’t surprise me that the politicians don’t know what the people of the city really want.”“If people aren’t safe, nothing else matters. People want to make sure that they can safely go to work and go to sleep at night in their homes,” the cop added.&quot;[ATTACH=full]342666[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 4911580, member: 48469"] Democrats are going to get shellacked next year and in 2024 over this stuff. Moderates disapprove of it big time and so do a large chunk of Democrats. Even in New York. It's a losing issue for Democrats nearly everywhere. [URL unfurl="true"]https://nypost.com/2021/06/19/post-poll-shows-progressives-push-to-defund-nypd-not-in-line-with-dem-voters/[/URL] "Progressive [URL='https://nypost.com/2021/06/17/maya-wiley-blasts-nypd-as-ineffective-wants-1b-cut/']proponents of defunding the NYPD[/URL] are out of touch with the city’s Democratic electorate — with worries about crime and safety the greatest among the party’s lower-income and minority voters, a poll commissioned by The Post has found. Opposition to last year’s [URL='https://nypost.com/2020/06/29/de-blasio-plans-to-cut-nypd-budget-by-1b-as-nyc-shootings-spike/']$1 billion NYPD budget cut[/URL] was also strongest in the crime-ridden Bronx, where more than 60 percent of respondents said they disapproved of the move by the City Council and Mayor Bill de Blasio. A Brooklyn cop said of the results, “It doesn’t surprise me that the politicians don’t know what the people of the city really want.” [B]“If people aren’t safe, nothing else matters.[/B] People want to make sure that they can safely go to work and go to sleep at night in their homes,” the cop added." [ATTACH type="full" width="638px" alt="NoDefund.jpg"]342666[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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