{"id":1308231,"date":"2022-02-17T21:24:28","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T02:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1308231"},"modified":"2022-02-17T21:24:35","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T02:24:35","slug":"yale-university-study-americans-overwhelmingly-reject-defund-the-police-support-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/yale-university-study-americans-overwhelmingly-reject-defund-the-police-support-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Yale University Study: Americans Overwhelmingly Reject &#039;Defund the Police,&#039; Support Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fyale-university-study-americans-overwhelmingly-reject-defund-the-police-support-reform%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1308231&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Stephanie-Keith_Getty-Images-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><span>A new study from Yale University found that the majority of Americans overwhelmingly reject the \u201cDefund the Police\u201d movement but support police reform, NBC affiliate WVIT <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcconnecticut.com\/news\/local\/yale-study-looks-into-public-opinion-on-defunding-police\/2720217\/?amp\">reported<\/a> Wednesday.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Yale Political Science department Chair Greg Huber and a team conducted an 8-week study surveying 1,137 people about how they felt about \u201creforming, defunding, and abolishing police.\u201d The finished findings were published in the January 2022 issue of<\/span><span>&nbsp;\u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1111\/1745-9133.12572\"><span>Criminology and Public Policy<\/span><\/a><span>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Of the 1,000-plus people surveyed, less than a quarter \u2014 23 percent \u2014 said they support abolishing the police. Slightly over a third \u2014 34 percent \u2014 said they supported defunding police. In contrast, a strong majority \u2014 66 percent \u2014 supported police reform.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt seems very clear that the public is not comfortable with reducing or getting rid of the police, they would just like the police to behave differently,\u201d Huber said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The idea for the study came after Black Lives Matter protests and riots swept the country in the summer of 2020, Huber said, noting that there was \u201cenormous amount of protests and discussion around police misconduct.\u201d The survey was conducted while the protests were underway in 2020, the report states.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cThe question was whether or not that meant that Americans wanted to get rid of the police wholesale, or just address behavior by the police that is detrimental to the public,\u201d&nbsp; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Huber said respondents were \u201cless receptive\u201d to abolition and defund than reform because they are \u201cworried about crime.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe\u2019ve seen big increases in crime rates in many cities,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat this tells us is that the public is going to be skeptical of reducing the number of police on the streets. They\u2019re worried that crime would go up.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He continued:&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I think the summer of 2020, it was very unclear as to what policy reforms people wanted. We saw that there was widespread support for addressing police misconduct, but I think some people thought that extended to also broader efforts to get rid of the police or reduce the number of police on the streets. That does not appear that many people who are marching actually supported those changes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The study concluded that reforming police operations would be a more successful approach nationwide than decreasing department budgets.<\/p>\n<p>Other studies and polls have found a similar sentiment among Americans. A Rasmussen poll <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/06\/29\/poll-defund-police-majority-voters\/\">released<\/a> roughly a year after the Black Lives Matter protests and riots found that 52 percent of Americans think more money should be spent on police. Only 18 percent thought less should be spent on police.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, 66 percent of voters agree with this statement: \u201cThe radical and reckless decisions by some jurisdictions to defund their police forces have had a real and devastating effect on American communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More recently, a February Morning Consult\/Politico poll <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/crime\/2022\/02\/09\/poll-seventy-five-percent-of-americans-believe-defunding-police-has-contributed-to-rising-violent-crime\/\">found<\/a> that 75 percent of registered voters believe defunding police departments is either a \u201cmajor\u201d or \u201cminor\u201d reason for rising violent crime in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study from Yale University found that the majority of Americans overwhelmingly reject the \u201cDefund the Police\u201d movement but support police reform, NBC affiliate WVIT reported Wednesday.\u00a0 Yale Political &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1308231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1308231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1308231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1308231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1308231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}