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so what is an example of a luxury belief well in 2020 the defunded the police movement gained a lot of momentum and in
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early 2021 yugov ran a survey and found that overall Americans were very much against defunding the police but when
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they broke down the results by income category they found that the highest income Americans were by far the most
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supportive of defunding the police there was another survey of just Democratic voters and found that white Democrats
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were far more supportive of defunding the police than Black and Hispanic Democrats and so as a result despite the
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fact that most people didn't want this many cities across the US subsequently reduced spending for police departments
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and this has contributed to the violent crime wave that we've seen over the last
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couple of years so in the US relative to those earn $75,000 or more per year the
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poorest Americans are seven times more likely to be victims of robbery seven times more likely to be victims of
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aggravated assault and 20 times more likely to be victims of sexual assault it's important here to understand that
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to not stop crime is to actually victimize uh the poor this is luxury belief