Poll of African-American Views on Cops Debunks Myths

RUSH: Okay. I want you all to listen to this, and particularly those of you in the audience who are African-American. It struck me when I ran across the story. … I found it at Power Line, the great blog. It was written by Paul Mirengoff … what he’s done, is he found a couple of polls of black people and has analyzed them and reported on them.

It struck me that I don’t see polling data where the respondents are exclusively African-American, and that kind of surprised me.

So you end up believing that the African-American population really is that… Their outlook is that bleak. People just believe it.

A couple pull quotes from the piece: “[B]ut for African-Americans, Bernie Sanders probably would be the Democratic nominee for president. African-American voters saved Joe Biden’s campaign, even though, as some of his opponents liked to point out, he collaborated with Dixiecrats, opposed school busing, and led the charge for stiff sentencing of drug offenders.

“They appreciate not just the economic opportunities, but also the presence of order and the absence of rampant corruption. I might be wrong,” Mr. Mirengoff writes, “but I don’t sense that they detest the police or that they want America to be radically transformed.” These are African immigrants in Washington that he’s talking about here.

“But then,” he says, “I doubt that many native African-Americans want this either….keep in mind they vote Democrat 95% of the time.

“‘In a 2019 Pew survey, 44% of blacks reported being “unfairly stopped by police” because of their race; 54% said, “No, has not happened to me.” In a Monmouth poll taken after Floyd’s death, 44% of African-Americans reported that they or an immediate family member felt “harassed by police,” but a majority did not share this experience.

“‘When asked, “How satisfied are you with the job your local police department does,”‘” just to repeat, this is Pew and Monmouth, “‘21% said “very satisfied,” 51% said somewhat satisfied…” Folks, that’s a total of 75% somewhat satisfied with the job of local police departments, African-Americans, in 2019. Things could have changed, obviously, but I don’t think that dramatically.

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