[bobthepanda]

Police is an interesting edge case, where at least in 2022 the people who want to reduce police are firmly on the left, and those firmly on the right want to cut everything except police.

There was an attempt to defund police, and that went down with the electorate like a lead balloon.

[throwaway0a5e]

There are broad swaths of the left and right that want as little to do with law enforcement as possible.

It's the moralizing religious right and the jackbooted ivory tower left types (both of whom think they know exactly how other people should live) that want lots of policing.

[bobthepanda]

Not to get too far into the weeds here, but Eric Adams, the black mayor of NYC who was formerly a police officer, was certainly not voted in by either the religious right or the ivory tower left.