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

[maximus83]

https://www.rasmussenreports.com/pub..._public_safety

Summary: 59% of US public say they believe there is a war on police and they want Blue Lives Matter laws to make attacks on police punishable as a hate crime. This is up from 43% two years ago.

Really good news, it means the public is starting to wake up to what's going on, and also means most of the public is still strongly supportive of the police. This, plus other polling indicating that the public strongly distrusts most of the media and believes they are fundamentally dishonest and actually fomenting the strife and division in the country, is a promising development. It means people are starting to see reality, despite the massive coordinated attempt to spin and cover up the cultural (and in some cases where police are being assassinated, actual) war that is going on.

[Diamondback]

Extend it to Fire and EMS too... though I really have reservations about "special hate crime" rather than cracking down on ALL violent crime and stomping the offenders like ketchup packets.

[Firefly]

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

[Disciple]

"Hate crime" is bullshit; there's just crime.

[Diamondback]

Problem is, it's NEVER enough to cancel out... like I said, easier to just stomp on ALL violent offenders regardless of perp and vic demographics/occupation/etc.

[sarc] Where's the "affirmative action" and "protected class" for Autistic Americans? [/sarc]

[markm]

We could just drop a 500 lb bomb on Soros's ass and be done with this all for good.

[maximus83]

though I really have reservations about "special hate crime" rather than cracking down on ALL violent crime and stomping the offenders like ketchup packets.

Agreed--the 'hate crime' mechanism is not my preferred way to solve problems of this type.

The good news to me though, is that a strong majority of the public sees this as a problem, supports the police, and wants to do something about it. That part is great news.

[jpmuscle]

“Hate crime” laws are retarded and completely unnecessary.


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[BoringGuy45]

In some states, there already are "hate crime" laws that apply to law enforcement, so to speak. In PA, for example, a simple assault against a law enforcement officer is automatically upgraded to an aggravated assault, and therefore a felony. This law, however, is not exclusive to cops; it also applies to doctors, teachers, social workers, correctional officers, judges, security guards, nurses, any elected official, and many others.

[john armond]

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.