A survey of 1,751 Los Angeles residents shows overall support for the LAPD but concern for racial profiling and discrimination by the department’s officers.
“So we've taken a look in the last five years, significantly, how we go about our traffic enforcement and what our patrols are actually doing and how they engage.
This survey comes three years after calls to “Defund the Police” and creating alternative ways to handle public safety resonated across the country. “When asking do you want to reallocate funds from LAPD for social services, for mental illness, for homelessness, there's actually been an increase in the number of people who support that idea,” Professor Guerra said.
“Now it feels like we're going backwards. And so we totally disagree with any more increases towards the police department,” she said.