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Only 17% of Black Voters Support Defund the Police

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Only 17% of black voters say they support defunding the police, a poll released this week found.

The Survey of Black Voters, conducted by TheGrio and KFF and published on Wednesday, asked 1,000 black adults who say they are registered to vote for their opinion on policing. About half of those polled, 48%, said they would like to see police funding kept about the same, while 34% said they wanted increased financial support. Just 17% responded that they support decreased funding for police in their area.

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Of black voters living in urban areas, 39% supported increased funding. That’s a 10-point jump from the 29% of black voters living in suburban areas who said they back increased funds for police.

The poll also found that 3 in 4 black voters viewed criminal justice and policing as a “very important factor in making their decision about who to vote for,” including 77% of Democrats and 68% of Republicans. The issue of crime was as important for those who made under $40,000 per year as it was for those making over $90,000 annually.

The “defund the police” effort emerged through Black Lives Matter protests, which began in the early 2010s. The idea was initially dismissed as fringe but grew in prominence during the summer of 2020, when the murder of George Floyd sparked racial justice protests across the country.

Notable progressives such as Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Cori Bush (D-MO), and Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) became ardent supporters of the defund movement. Other prominent Democrats, such as current Democratic candidates Stacey Abrams and John Fetterman, discussed reallocating funds to social services and investing in minority communities, as well as ideas for reimagining policing, in interviews. Clips from those conversations have been used by Republicans in ads against their candidacies.

Not all Democrats got on board with the defund movement, though. Both President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) made frequent note of their support for increased police funding during the 2020 election cycle and hold the same positions now.

House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC), whose endorsement of Biden in the crowded 2020 Democratic primary is largely credited with handing him the nomination, began expressing his opposition to the defund effort as it gained steam that summer.

Democrats underperformed in multiple close House and Senate races in the 2020 cycle, something Clyburn blamed on those in his party who took part in “sloganeering” on the issue of crime.

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“Well, it happened simply because we were not able to discipline ourselves,” the South Carolina lawmaker told Axios after the presidential race was called for Biden. “We keep making that mistake. This foolishness about, ‘You got to be this progressive or that progressive.'”

Clyburn also argued that the defund slogan was used by Republicans to hurt Democrats on the issue of crime, comparing it to the “burn, baby, burn” phrase that set the civil rights movement in the 1960s back years.


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