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Joanna M's avatar

I appreciate the information you share so much.

I am not very familiar with how polling works. Do the polls from news sources ever ask hypotheticals like, "Would you approve other candidates like Joe Biden or Gavin Newsom taking over the local police department?"

I guess my question really is are people ever forced to reflect on their partisanship in polls? Thank you for the work you do!

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I think the "left realist" school of criminology, which had a following particularly in Britain in the '80s and early '90s, offers a promising approach to these issues for Democrats. The tenets can be summarized as:

1. Crime is a real problem, particularly for working-class people who suffer disproportionately from street crime.

2. Progressives need a credible approach to crime control in order to prevent the right from owning the issue. They need to propose practical solutions for law and order issues.

3. There's a need to achieve a higher level of cooperation between police and public. This is best achieved through increasing local, democratic oversight of the police.

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