Columbia - SquareOffs

Should the Columbia city council help fund security training for businesses downtown?

Asked by ABC 17 News

176 Votes

Should the Columbia city council help fund security training for businesses downtown?

26%

Yes Yes

74%

No No

26%

Yes

The city should have some requirements for bars having trained licensed security and the city should help train them because there is no business that provides training.

The city should have some requirements for bars having trained licensed security and the city should help train them because there is no business that provides training. Show Less

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74%

No

The training for security employees of private businesses is the responsibility of that business.

The training for security employees of private businesses is the responsibility of that business. Show Less

3 Comments

Max

I agree with you on this. It's not the city's job to run the business. Harry also has a good point.

Jack L

It`s not the cities job to do this

Adam Schrader

Businesses can fund it themselves. Columbia has better things to spend their money on.

Max

This would be the same as saying, the city should pay a doctors malpractice insurance. It is not the city's responsibility.

Should Critical Race Theory be taught at the high school level?

Asked by ABC 17 News

667 Votes

Should Critical Race Theory be taught at the high school level?

26%

Yes Yes

74%

No No

26%

Yes

Teachers should be allowed to use Critical Race Theory as another tool to help teach students US history.

Teachers should be allowed to use Critical Race Theory as another tool to help teach students US history. Show Less

4 Comments

Andrew Patchell

Ignoring the impact of race and racism in history doesn't make it go away; it just makes you ignorant.

Letitia DenHartog

I believe today's high school students can handle the information and, hopefully, it will affect their leadership for the future.

Max

Todays high school students are the weakest, most self centered, most brain washed students ever. Most can't maintain a thought for more than ten seconds.

Holly Page Frazee

If you had a history class, you know how terrible the US treated other races and ethnicities. The only difference is a lot of things were left out, like the Oklahoma massacre. Of course it affected our laws & institutions. This is not a new concept.

74%

No

Teachers have been teaching US History without the use of Critical Race Theory and they can continue to teach without it.

Teachers have been teaching US History without the use of Critical Race Theory and they can continue to teach without it. Show Less

6 Comments

Debra Riffle

This continual focus on race is taking us back to a segregated, dark, racist place. It needs to stop.

Max

It's part of the Democratic plan to maintain hate and racism, thereby keeping the slaves on the welfare plantation. They don't mind putting white people on the plantation either, as long as they have a plantation, where hate and discontent can be maintained.

Will Mason

They are teaching children to hate one another.

Max

Harry is being sarcastic. He agrees with you. Lighten up.

Russ Burton

its promoting racism

Marisa Hagler

We are teaching children they are oppressed or oppressors based solely on skin color. That is the definition of racism. This country is going backwards with CRT and promoting hate and racism against white people mind blowing madness!

Max

Anyone caught teaching this crap, should be treated as a domestic terrorist and exiled from our nation.

William

Because it is a racist and goes against the fundamentals of equality.

Are you worried about crime in downtown Columbia?

Asked by ABC 17 News

285 Votes

Are you worried about crime in downtown Columbia?

78%

Yes Yes

22%

No No

78%

Yes

Columbia police were sent downtown this weekend for shots being fired after two people were hit by bullets last weekend.

Columbia police were sent downtown this weekend for shots being fired after two people were hit by bullets last weekend. Show Less

3 Comments

Aven Bange

There seems to be a large increase in crime in Columbia in the last several years and seems to be getting worse. The one crime that seems to be increasing the most is gun violence and shootings.

Kevin Blount

I trust CPD, but the closeness of shootings to the police headquarters is alarming, as it shows the brazenness of our local criminals. Looking forward to more lights downtown.

Laura Davidson

Not just downtown Columbia. Columbia as a whole. But people won't give info to CPD, and it's going to keep happening.

22%

No

Despite the high-profile gunplay downtown, such incidents remain relatively rare downtown. But some would argue any gunfire is too much.

Despite the high-profile gunplay downtown, such incidents remain relatively rare downtown. But some would argue any gunfire is too much. Show Less

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Columbia SquareOffs

Should the Columbia city council help fund security training for businesses downtown?

26% Yes Yes

74% No No

26% Yes

74% No

Should Critical Race Theory be taught at the high school level?

26% Yes Yes

74% No No

26% Yes

74% No

Are you worried about crime in downtown Columbia?

78% Yes Yes

22% No No

78% Yes

22% No

About Columbia

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No No

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No

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Yes Yes

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No No

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Yes

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No

78%

Yes Yes

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No No

78%

Yes

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No