Respondents were asked: “Would you rather the police spend more time, the same amount of time or less time as they currently spend in your area?” Sixty-one percent of black respondents said they wanted the same amount of time; 20 percent said more. Hispanics had similar numbers (59 percent same, 24 percent more).
Has anything close to that reality been reflected in the “national conversation” about race and policing? How many softball interviews did CNN or MSNBC conduct with activists claiming to speak for “communities of color,” in which “defunding the police” was not only taken seriously but sympathetically?