A new poll from Siena College shows wide support among New York voters for certain police reforms such as creating a national database on police misconduct. Yet most of the voters surveyed oppose the idea of “defunding” the police, according to the poll.

The poll released Tuesday, in the wake of a flurry of legislative activity in Albany around police reform, also found that a majority of surveyed voters said the deaths of Rayshard Brooks and George Floyd “are part of a broader pattern of excessive police violence toward Black people.”

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