The radical push to “Defund the Police” is not something supported by most voters in America.
According to a new poll from Rasmussen Reports, Americans are on a different wavelength with regards to policing.
Big League Politics summarized the findings:
–For example, only 18% of likely U.S. voters that Rasmussen polled support defunding the policing. By contrast, 52% of likely voters support spending more on police. 23% of likely voters are of the view that current levels of police funding are fine.
66% of voters agree with the following statement: “The radical and reckless decisions by some jurisdictions to defund their police forces have had a real and devastating effect on American communities.”
–This is a quote from a letter that Republican congressmen Jim Jordan and Kevin McCarthy sent to Attorney General Merrick Garland earlier in June. Only 24% disagree with the letter and 11% are unsure.
–The partisan divide on the question of policing is stark. 72% of Republicans want more spending on police, while 38% of Democrats and 43% of independent voters believe that police should receive more funding.
–As for Democrats, only 29% believe that police should be defunded. On the other hand, 10% of Republicans and 13% of independent voters believe that the police should be defunded.
–71% of Republicans, 26% of Democrats, and 49% of independent voters strongly agree with the statement that “decisions by some jurisdictions to defund their police forces” have had a “devastating effect” on them. 37% of Democrats don’t agree, while 11% of Republicans and 21% of independent voters disagree.
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South Carolina Republican Sen. Tim Scott and former South Carolina GOP Sen. Trey Gowdy spoke about the latest push from some Democrats to “defund the police.”
Scott wasted little time calling it a “ridiculous idea.”
“It is not an idea whose time has come. It should never come. The absolute nation requires law and order. We need order in our streets, and the easiest way to have that is to have a strong presence of character-driven law enforcement officers,” Scott said.
Gowdy said, “Defunding the police is the single dumbest idea I have ever heard.”
“Who is going to process crime scenes, arrest bad people? Who is going to enforce any law, child sex abuse, homicide? Who is going to do it, if it’s not the police?”Gowdy asked.
Scott rounded out his comments by saying he introduced the George Floyd-Walter Scott Notification Act, which is legislation that would “get law enforcement agencies to report the data on the use of force that leads to death.”