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
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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.
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When police disappears, gangs take over. This has happened over and over in Brazil. We've seen large regions taken over by drug dealers or even militias (sometimes former cops) that form parallel states and extort their local residents.
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Hm... across everywhere I've lived, theres been an inverse correlation between the quality of the police and my desire to have them around. Towns with shitty, violent cops usually hire them from among shitty, violent non-cops...
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(I'm still an overall "less" vote, though. Even in the high-crime areas, police presence didnt seem to achieve much.)
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