I beg to differ, Joe. The public is on the side of NYPD. It is the protesters being paid by Communists that have a problem with law enforcement. If they lived under a Communist regime they would learn quickly there are no protests. Only firing squads and labor camps that work people 20 hours per day. Truth be known these protesters are being used and exploited. It's a real shame. We need to pray they wake up and realize what it means to be an American.
Not really.
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a January, 2013, poll by Quinnipiac University, 70 percent said they approved of the job that the city's police force was doing. Only 23 percent said they did not. It marked the highest level of approval registered by the survey since February, 2002. That earlier high point had come in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that brought down the World Trade Center and brought hero status to New York's first responders.
There was a racial disparity in the January, 2013, poll. Approval of the police was strongest among whites, at 80 percent. But a majority of blacks (56 percent) and Hispanics (67 percent) also answered favorably. Then-Police Commissioner Ray Kelly's standing also reached its high point, with 75 percent giving him a thumbs up.
By mid-November of this year, that same poll showed that the stature of the department had fallen sharply.
Only 54 percent overall said they approved of the job the police were doing. And the view of nonwhites toward the police had turned negative, with only
35 percent of African Americans and 43 percent of Hispanics expressing a favorable view.
How New Yorkers feel about the NYPD - The Washington Post
That's actually a pretty big drop in how people feel about the police in NYC.