Most Americans in major cities are more worried about crime than defunding the police - as poll shows 90% of Detroit residents want MORE cops

Most Americans in major cities are more worried about crime than defunding the police - as poll shows 90% of Detroit residents want MORE cops

• The new poll from USA TODAY and the Detroit Free Press was conducted with Suffolk University
• It found that Detroit residents overwhelmingly agree that they would feel safer with more cops on the street
• Detroit was not alone, as a poll last month shows that 70% of black Democrats want more cops patrolling the Big Apple 
• In that poll, 21% of likely Democratic voters even want the return of the plainclothes anti-crime police in some neighborhoods 
• And in Chicago, another poll last month found that 79% of residents in the Windy City said they feel safer when they see police in their neighborhoods 
• Those polls echo dozens of others conducted after the murder of George Floyd last May sparked loud calls to 'defund the police' 

Most Americans in major cities are more worried about crime than defunding the police - as a new poll shows about 90 percent of Detroit residents actually want more cops.

The poll from USA TODAY and the Detroit Free Press conducted with Suffolk University found that Detroit residents overwhelmingly agree that they would feel safer with more cops on the street.

Detroit was not alone, as a poll from WNBC, Telemundo 47 and Politico conducted with Marist last month shows that 70 percent of black Democrats want more cops patrolling the Big Apple.