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    Poll: Most Black Americans Want Police to Remain in Their Areas

    'Cause that's where all the crime is FFS.


    Most black Americans say they want police to continue their current presence in local areas, even as protests against racism and police brutality sweep the nation, and calls to reform and even defund police departments persist.


    Close to two-thirds, 61 percent, of black Americans said they want the police presence in their area to remain the same, while 20 percent said they would like to see police spend more time in their neighborhood, according to a new Gallup poll. Another 19 percent said they would like to see the police presence in their area decrease.


    Among the general population, 67 percent of Americans say they want the police presence near them to remain the same, with 71 percent of white Americans saying so. A majority of other minority communities also said they do not want to see fewer police officers patrolling their neighborhoods, with 59 percent of Hispanics preferring the current police presence.


    Black Americans said they observe police in their neighborhoods slightly more than other groups, 32 percent saying they see police officers often or very often in their area, above the national average of 24 percent of all Americans who say the same. About 27 percent said they rarely or never see police in their neighborhoods. Only 22 percent of white Americans said they see police often or very often around where they live.
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    Quote Originally Posted by happynz View Post
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    awww isn't that sweet.
    There are no strangers here
    Only friends we haven't met.

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    I think that most people would like to see “beat” police who are part of the community they police. That is opposed to the armed patrols we have now, who only show up when there is a crime committed and aren’t familiar with local good guys, bad guys, mental cases, etc.

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