The new poll from USA TODAY and the Detroit Free Press was conducted with Suffolk University It found that Detroit residents overwhelmingly agree that they would feel safer with more cops on the street Detroit was not alone, as a poll last month shows that 70% of black Democrats want more cops patrolling the Big Apple In that poll, 21% of likely Democratic voters even want the return of the plainclothes anti-crime police in some neighborhoods And in Chicago, another poll last month found that 79% of residents in the Windy City said they feel safer when they see police in their neighborhoods