Rasmussen poll: majority want blue lives matter laws to protect police

[maximus83]

Then you have VA that just downgraded assaulting an officer from a felony to a misdemeanor...because we don’t want to ruin someone’s life over a mistake.

That's actually the trend you see, with lots of states trying to basically make it easier for people to assault police, or to further reduce police options for dealing with non-compliance.

But just as we saw this last week, take the case of the insane Minneapolis city council who first voted to defund police, and now after crime has skyrocketed, they are unbelievably going back to the police and whining about what will the police do to stop it. What changed there? They were FORCED to do this by reality--it's called constituents. The constituents in Minneapolis have been flooding the City Council with calls about all the massive and growing crime problems. Even a strong majority of BLACK constituents, who the media want us to believe are so oppressed by and hostile to the police. They aren't.

Regardless of the radical flakes running the government in most large cities, a lot of the common people have more common sense, they do value the police and want them around, and don't want to see them targeted by violent radicals. These polls are the most objective indicator I've seen yet of where the public stands on the issue of support for police.

[Disciple]

Then you have VA that just downgraded assaulting an officer from a felony to a misdemeanor...because we don’t want to ruin someone’s life over a mistake.

How does VA define simple assault?

[chuckman]

Not a big fan of Rasmussen in the same way I'm not a fan of some of the other polling sites, there is a built in political bias. They always air to the side of Republicans/conservatives.

That said, "hate crimes" are bullshit.

[john armond]

But just as we saw this last week, take the case of the insane Minneapolis city council who first voted to defund police, and now after crime has skyrocketed, they are unbelievably going back to the police and whining about what will the police do to stop it.

I brought this up in a different post...maybe a different thread...today

[jsbhike]

That said, "hate crimes" are bullshit.

This is the right answer and same goes for any other law(or professional courtesy) bestowing special privileges/status on favored groups. It is amazing that anyone would support anointing any group as "special" after seeing week after week of rioters being too special to arrest while their intended victims get snatched up for not meekly accepting their fate.

[Firefly]

I’m waiting for when someone gets cute and makes every crime a hate crime

[Korgs130]

I want total mirror hate crime laws.

For every profession that has to deal with these ‘protected species” there needs to be an equal and strictly enforced hate crime law.

Immigration enforcement, Fire, EMS, Code Enforcement, Housing Authority, etc etc until it cancels out

This ^^^^ 100%. I think this is a winning proposal.

[Diamondback]

I’m waiting for when someone gets cute and makes every crime a hate crime

Why not? I never did see a crime committed out of LOVE toward the vic...

[john armond]

CA officer charged after fatally shooting a suspect armed with a baseball bat. Taser was fired first but was ineffective. Charges stem from a new CA law and the DA deciding not enough de-escalation was used.

Haven’t seen any video from the encounter.

https://www.theroot.com/california-c...tal-1845079029

[john armond]

Also, two Jersey officers...on leave after the birth of their child...had unknown suspects begin shooting into their home while they were there with their 10 day old child. I think these are the 6th officers targeted in about as many days.

These 2
1 in Chicago
1 Fed Officer in drive-by
2 AZ troopers on stakeout

There are probably more.

Also in Chicago Officers are being doxed in real-time with one protester telling a white shirt “you need some black in your family. I’m gonna go and rape your daughter!” Then telling the white shirt his address that someone in the group of rioters had just looked up.

Real-time doxing is happening in numerous other jurisdictions too. Several departments are removing name tags from uniforms as a matter of policy now.