D'oh! Democrats are discovering that 'defunding the police' means 'slaughter on the streets' and voters are furious -- RT Op-ed

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Last year, Mayor Bill de Blasio, who helped to paint a massive, bright yellow Black Lives Matter mural in front of Trump Tower in Manhattan (while ordering the police to stand guard over it) slashed $1 billion from the police budget, which had stood at a whopping $6 billion in 2020.
53% : Meanwhile, the city of Austin, a bastion of liberalism inside the red state of Texas, last summer cut $21.5 million from its police budget while shifting another $128 million from the police department to other departments.
46% : New York City, for example, was among 20 major cities that severely defunded police budgets.
44% : Slightly fewer, 64%, said they trust law enforcement to handle crime and public safety issues.
41% : Despite proving for themselves that defunding the police due to a few rotten apples in the ranks is not the answer, Democratic cities and states got busy slashing police budgets just to appease the woke vigilantes among them.
36% : This extremely high level of support among Americans for law enforcement does not flush with the Democrats' dire message that the police are the root of all evil.

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