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Reducing police presence in one's own neighborhood is incredibly unpopular outside the activist class. https://news.gallup.com/poll/316571/black-americans-police-retain-local-presence.aspx …pic.twitter.com/t9GI5ZDUco
For my part, I've lived in low crime + high crime neighborhoods across the US — coastal, midwestern, and southern — and I can recognize the disconnect here. Elites fail to understand the extent to which many people who are uncomfortable around police also regularly rely on them.
The intransigent minority, tho
This is shocking to me, given the way black friends and people I’m following on twitter portray their fears of police. Like I seriously can’t believe these numbers.
Surely age is a huge factor here
PUN? If you see less crime it's because of less criminals around your area not because of less police..
Well, yes, having bad cops is bad but having good cops is good. I've spent years chatting about criminal justice reform and like half of that is very detailed discussions about how to solve more murders & serious crime. But improving any system is about type 1 AND 2 errors.
Yelling too loud we can’t listen
Between 1/4 and 1/3 of Asians, between 1/6 and 1/5 of Blacks and Hispanics is not all that rare. I agree it's nowhere near the majority! But it's just about equal in most cases to wanting more - this looks like status quo bias more than anything else.
Does "status quo bias" mean something other than "not wanting the situation to substantially change"?
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