Proposals to reduce police budgets unpopular: Poll

Published June 14, 2020 11:37am ET



Efforts to reduce police budgets to allocate the money to other programs are just as unpopular as those that would be defunding police departments, new ABC News/Ipsos poll shows.

According to the survey, almost two-thirds of the public are against defunding police departments, compared to 34% in favor. At the same time, 60% of the public reject reducing the budget for police departments to redistribute it to other public health and social programs, while 39% support that goal, according to the poll.

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