29 Jun 2021
While leftists have made “defunding the police” their rallying cry, less than one in five voters think America should spend less on police.
In fact, 52 percent of voters actually think America needs to spend more on police, according to a Rasmussen poll released on Tuesday. Only 18 percent think the country should spend less on police, and 23 percent say the current amount of funding for police is about right.
Sixty-six percent of voters agree with this statement: “The radical and reckless decisions by some jurisdictions to defund their police forces have had a real and devastating effect on American communities.”
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Last Updated Monday, June 28, 2021 3:25PM EDT NEW YORK (AP) - New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio promised Monday to dramatically boost the number of police officers in
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Square after a man reportedly visiting with his family was shot and wounded. It was the second shooting in two months at the famous Manhattan tourist attraction and a high-profile setback for the city as it begins welcoming back tourists after a yearlong pandemic lockdown. “The bottom line is we are going to flood the zone in
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Square with additional officers to make sure this situation is resolved once and for all,” the mayor said at a morning briefing. “We have more and more activity out there, more and more jobs coming back, more and more tourists coming back. They have to be safe and they have to feel safe.”
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(NEW YORK) Within 2 and 1/2 hours on Sunday, two people were killed and 17 were wounded in a pair of mass shootings in Chicago. A rash of shootings in Philadelphia since Friday left two people dead and 19 injured.
And in New York City’s Times Square, a tourist was hurt when he was hit by an errant bullet after a fight allegedly erupted between street vendors.
As police investigated the incidents of gun violence that broke out over the weekend in major cities across the nation, law enforcement officials are bracing for more violence during the Fourth of July holiday.