{"id":1505378,"date":"2022-06-06T13:07:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T17:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1505378"},"modified":"2022-06-06T13:07:31","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T17:07:31","slug":"soft-on-crime-la-mayoral-candidate-making-massive-gains-among-white-liberals-poll-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/soft-on-crime-la-mayoral-candidate-making-massive-gains-among-white-liberals-poll-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Soft-On-Crime LA Mayoral Candidate Making Massive Gains Among White Liberals: POLL"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Fsoft-on-crime-la-mayoral-candidate-making-massive-gains-among-white-liberals-poll-2%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=1505378&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><\/div>\n<p>Democratic California Rep. Karen Bass is gaining ground in the Los Angeles mayoral race among those who are less affected by violent crime: white liberals.<\/p>\n<p>Support for Bass declined from April to May among black and Asian voters and remained stagnant among Latinos, but support among white liberals surged, according to a <a class=\"source\" href=\"https:\/\/www.igs.berkeley.edu\/research\/berkeley-igs-poll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies<\/a> poll <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2022-06-05\/final-poll-bass-leads-la-mayor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared<\/a> by the Los Angeles Times. Rising violent crime since 2020 has disproportionally impacted black and Hispanic people, and the spike in murders from 2020 to 2021 was heavily concentrated in black and Hispanic neighborhoods, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themarshallproject.org\/2021\/04\/08\/murders-rose-last-year-black-and-hispanic-neighborhoods-were-hit-hardest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to The Marshall Project.<\/p>\n<p>Bass\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KarenBassLA\/status\/1513250949262807041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">campaign<\/a> has focused on social justice rather than crime, and Bass does not believe police are the answer the city\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/11\/los-angeles-mayor-rick-caruso-karen-bass-crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">crime<\/a> problem, according to her campaign website. She <a href=\"https:\/\/karenbass.com\/policies\/crime-prevention\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> community organizations and trained experts, not police, should be given resources to deal with the root causes of crime.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Today I announced a plan to combat crime with deep, structural investments for communities across L.A.<\/p>\n<p>We have to prevent the conditions that lead to crime and rehabilitate people who have made mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>We can have safety and justice at the same time. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0MbllPUPgV\">https:\/\/t.co\/0MbllPUPgV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Karen Bass (@KarenBassLA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KarenBassLA\/status\/1511504804199157760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 6, 2022<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Bass saw a 15 to 19 point increase in support among Democrats, white voters and women along with a 33 point increase from white liberals from April to May, according to the poll. Support fell 26 points among black voters and 2 points among Asian voters during the same timeframe, and Latino support remained the same.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Los Angeles saw a 30% reduction in crime during my time as President of the Police Commission. I\u2019ve done it before, and I will do it again as your Mayor. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CarusoCan?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CarusoCan<\/a>\u2060 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UUGti9XXHY\">pic.twitter.com\/UUGti9XXHY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rick J. Caruso (@RickCarusoLA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RickCarusoLA\/status\/1512538721819660293?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 8, 2022<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Bass\u2019 opponent, billionaire real estate developer and former Republican Rick Caruso, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b2UYgHonXqM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">emphasized<\/a> the problem of crime in his campaign and has drawn public attention to his service as president of the Los Angeles Police Commission, during which time the crime rate reportedly fell 30%.<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/06\/la-residents-violent-crime-wealthy-neighborhoods\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018Never Seen Anything Like It\u2019: LA Residents Rattled As Violent Crime Finally Seeps Into Wealthy Neighborhoods)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bass and Caruso did not respond to The Daily Caller News Foundation\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic California Rep. Karen Bass is gaining ground in the Los Angeles mayoral race among those who are less affected by violent crime: white liberals.Support for Bass declined from April<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1505378","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\/1505378","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\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1505378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505378\/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=1505378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1505378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1505378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}