“A majority of likely U.S. voters believes the country is experiencing a war on police and that politicians should enact policy classifying attacks on cops as hate crimes, according to a new poll.
Released on Thursday, Rasmussen’s polling came amid a wave of calls to defund police and a swell in anti-police sentiment. Since 2018, the percentage of likely voters who believes there’s a war on cops has increased from 43% to 59%.
Since George Floyd’s death, the country saw a dramatic increase in protests surrounding race and policing. Many on the left have proposed “defunding the police,” often used to describe transferring funds to other government services. According to Rasmussen, 66% of likely U.S. voters opposed those measures”. (Fox News. Read more here.)