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Social workers taking a DIY approach to curing violent crime plummets in popularity

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Support for defunding the police collapsed in 2021
https://www.businessinsider.com/defund-t...ch-2021-10

EXCERPT: After a strong onset of support among some groups, public opinion around defunding the police has taken a sharp downward turn in 2021, according to new data from Pew Research.

In a year-to-year poll, Pew found more Americans want to increase police funding in 2021 compared to 2020. The most notable drops in support were among Black adults and people age 18 to 49, both of which had plurality support when Pew asked the same question about police funding last year.

[...] "Defund the police" was the subject of intense debate as a slogan when it broke into the mainstream in the summer of 2020 after the police murder of George Floyd. Some proponents argued it meant shifting resources from police departments to social services, while others saw it more strictly as reducing funding or even abolishing the police.

When asked specifically if they would prefer to see police funding increased, decreased, or kept the same, just 25% of Democrats said they would like to see it reduced, down from a plurality of 41% in 2020.

[...] A rise in public concern around violent crime is one potential factor behind the shift cited by Pew. In 2020, the latest year available, the nation-wide murder rate spiked 30% according to FBI statistics — the largest increase since records-keeping began decades ago.

In June 2020, just 41% of respondents agreed violent crime "is a very big problem in the country today." That number shot up to 61% by a July 2021 survey. (MORE - details)
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How many times do leftist policies have to prove themselves a complete failure?
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Activists keep police reform push despite Minneapolis loss
https://apnews.com/article/death-of-geor...9930c1cdaf

INTRO: Activists vowed Wednesday to keep fighting for substantial changes to the Minneapolis Police Department, despite the defeat of a ballot initiative that would have replaced it with a reimagined public safety unit in the city where George Floyd died under an officer’s knee.

The initiative, which evolved from the “defund the police” movement that took hold after Floyd’s death in May 2020, would have removed a requirement that the city have a police department with a minimum number of officers. But more than 56% of the city’s voters rejected replacing it with a Department of Public Safety with a more holistic vision and less reliance on cops with guns.

Still, some supporters of the ballot item insisted it wasn’t a total defeat and that their efforts had spurred nationwide consideration of policing reforms. “Minneapolis has been the catalyst for that conversation and it is one the nation should not walk back on,” said Minister JaNaé Bates of the Yes 4 Mpls campaign, the driving force behind the amendment.

Despite Tuesday’s election outcome, momentum for change is building in cities like Austin, Texas; Washington D.C. and Los Angeles, said Judith Browne Dianis, executive director of the civil rights organization Advancement Project National Office. Narrowing the scope of reform is not the answer, she said. “We’ve seen the whole array of reforms and the police are still killing people,” she said.

Rashad Robinson of Color Of Change PAC said social movements can take years to create sweeping change, and this one has pushed a major shift in the conversation in a short time.“I couldn’t imagine a ballot measure like this even being on the ballot three years ago,” he said. “Movements lose until they win.”

But Betsy Brantner Smith, a retired police sergeant and spokeswoman for the advocacy group National Police Association, called the vote a “stake through the heart of the defund-the-police movement.”

David Schultz, a political scientist at Hamline University in St. Paul, said the proposal failed because it couldn’t escape its proximity to the “defund” movement and the pledge by nine City Council members to dismantle the department at a rally shortly after Floyd’s death. “Even though, technically speaking, this amendment wasn’t defunding the police, I think the messaging came out and people were thinking this is about defunding the police,” Schultz said... (MORE)
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