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This happens at least every election cycle. "Defund the Police" is a popular tagline for people and humans tend to overgeneralize and groupthink pretty often. Kind of like mob mentality.
The facts are that there are 800,000+ cops working in America every day and each one of them is having an average of 10 contacts with the public a day and by and large those contacts are either non-violent or the cop uses the correct level of force to control the situation. And people need police.
And, as far as BLM goes... I think the more radical members of that group have started putting a bad taste in peoples mouths. Also, humans just in general, lose interest in things quickly so they revert to what's "normal" and what's normal right now is police.
Plus, we've seen a dramatic spike in crime since a number of communities have chosen to defund or disband their police. Kind of ironic that criminals will criminal even more when there's no one around to stop them... funny how that works. 🤔
BLM movement is nonsense tbf. Most violent crimes are committed by Black people and most attacks are Black on Black.
People avoid majority Black areas because of the high crime rates associated with them. It is a universal truth that they cause a lot of problems. There are a minority of them that have become civil and worked their way into professional jobs and have avoided trouble but still a large majority that are involved in gangs and cause problems.
I have seen a lot of white American women
Yo, I am against racism and don't know we need to end this racism then I saw one poster of blm protest and it was written your daughter every inch of black men. Is that the reason they support blm or something else and one more thing i have always seen black women against white women always, wondering what may be the reason, now here too i could see more females disliking this comment and since I don't know who is the one disliking, I can't derive a perspective out of it.
@SHREYASH007 I am also completely against racism. I am an Asian woman. I don’t stand for White supremacy but I think BLM was motivated by anger and emotions that were present at that time but like in any situation, emotions are fleeting. Now that the anger has died down you can see the full picture more clearly. When you’re drowning in anger and pain you’re biased.
I think every human life is sacred. No race is superior.
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u 1. It would be interested to see the numbers separated by age. I think very young people are easily persuaded to join in with movements that are currently trendy and supported by the MSM, but the same topic won't keep "selling newspapers" forever (other than sex :) ) and the MSM moves on to something else, it loses its trendy status, and younger people move on.
2. For older people who jumped on the bandwagon, the dramatic rise in crime with the BLM/defund the police movement was too much to ignore. It bit them on the ass!
I agree. The younger generations tend to view much of life as being black or white. Very few will do the hard work of delving into the grey areas where the truth is a bit more apparent. AND THE MSM ISN’T HELPING! On top of that, life has a way of maturing the mind. When these youngsters get full time jobs, get married, have children, pay taxes, buy homes, they’ll become advocates for what directly affects them. Right now they’re wandering around trying to figure out who they are and sampling as lot of crap along the way, but it’s a good learning process in the long run. It’s also why I think the voting age should be raised to at least 21! 🤣💚
My assumption is that the support of law enforcement rises and falls based on the amount of fatal and/or negative police encounters that reach national news. When tragic police shootings or fatal encounters aren't happening at the time, people generally assume most cops are doing their jobs properly, and the people that normally distrust them are perhaps more unlikely to take such surveys when tragic police encounters are not occurring. The decline of trust in Black Lives Matter could be the result of the protests dying down this year, resulting in people that normally supported Black Lives Matter last summer being less likely to partake in surveys while certain issues aren't happening. Some of it could also be because of the Black Lives Matter founder, Patrisse Cullors, being exposed to have made millions of dollars through Black Lives Matter funding and bought several houses in different locations, which was exposed around March 2021 or so, as indicated by the graph. The distrust could be based on racism and shifting political differences as well.
As for my opinion, I don't see why the dilemma of "either trust law enforcement or Black Lives Matter" has to exist. The possibility that one could trust both, neither, or one over the other. Personally, albeit the founder of the movement and some of its supporters did do questionable things, I still support the slogan of Black Lives Matter and its supporters calling out the actions of police officers that commit misconduct. I can't say that I trust every single individual BLM supporter, however. As for my trust in law enforcement, because of the numbers proving that cops are more prone to commit acts of misconduct, especially towards Black people, and kill them more often, especially when they're unarmed and non-threatening, combined with the fact they're rarely punished for their misconduct and are protected by qualified immunity, I don't trust police. In fact, I would trust a person in a Black Lives Matter shirt promoting equality more than I would trust an unacquainted police officer that pulled me over late at night because that cop is statistically more prone to commit an act of misconduct towards me or even kill me.
Maybe it's because examples of BLM rioting, looting and vandalism ironically proved that we need law enforcement to contain such behavior.
BLM was a good thing when it first got started. Protesting unnecessary police violence and murder was justified. All it was doing was pointing out systemic racism in the way some police treated black people and got away with it. But it was quickly co-opted by militants. Revelations that at least one of its co-founders is an avowed Marxist and has, hypocritically, become personally wealthy. One lady was convicted to 54 years in prison for violent revolutionary activity and possible murder, but her sentence was commuted by Bill Clinton. She became a co-chair of Thousand Currents, which is the fiscal sponsor of BLM. BLM as also received funding from George Soros organizations. Over time, it proved to support anti-American sentiments and racism against whites, and engage in violence.
The unpopular Critical Race Theory is also an outgrowth of the BLM revolution. And the fact that BLM was embraced by the Democratic party didn't help to make it popular among a majority of Americans.
In regards to police, I don't "trust" police culture or our legal system. It's fucked up in a lot of ways. I also acknowledge that a lot of cops are really good people who act professionally, but some cops are complete ass holes. And most will follow orders, no matter how unconstitutional the orders are. I don't automatically respect someone who wears a uniform. I oppose the militarization of police. I think it's good to call out bad police behavior and work to improve police policy and training.
Nevertheless, policing is necessary.
I'm not from America, but I am a young black British woman. And what I see is this.
Unfortunately we live in a world like this. Black people (you may or may not agree) have been oppressed and subjected to less than kind circumstances, yes we live in society where they claim equal rights but we don't have as many role models and connections for our advancements. Although we are getting there it's slower than others.
Consequently many have problems, financial, emotional, mental and this can at times lead to aggression.
If we all went with the blm movement especially with their defund the police protests. People would fear for their safety.
Unfortunately with all the racist things being done there is the undeniable fact about strength. And that is something that has maintained the "oppression" the fear over domination.
I'm not saying that everyone thinks this way but I still see people pulling at their purses and being in fear especially if a group of black people are talking a little louder than the average person.
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Now that life isn't looking so great, noone wants to save and fall by the wayside they want to survive. Blm issues are no longer a priority because if the people at the top do what they are supposed to for the wider community that can filter down to offering scholarships, sponsorships etc and financial aid to the blm community.
This is a dog eat dog world...
u The drop in support for BLM isn't even slightly surprising. Their support has been dropping for months.
As for rise in support for the police, I'm somewhat surprised by that, and pleasantly so (I am, for the most part, pro-police). To be fair, there are some places in the US where there is good reason not to trust cops, like Chicago for instance. But I would think that people are seeing what happens when there are fewer police officers and when their respective departments take a more passive and reactive approach to things.
Wait until another election and some dumbass will challenge a cop and get put down on video and the cycle will happen again.
Where did the man and woman companions of George Floyd go when the cops arrived?
It wasn't Floyd's minivan.
BLM is not going away. They are a useful tool to be used in the manufactured crisis, and during the crisis you can't criticize them because then you'd be a racist, but when things are more calm they need to hide. If there's no manufactured crisis to distract the masses from their real purpose... then people will be more willing to see that they're really not helping anyone but themselves.
Black olives matter is not going away.
Well as for the BLM all lives matter regardless of someone's race , color , religion , etc.
And as for police they are just learning new tricks to violate people's rights , assault , shoot etc it's a new trick on a old narrative.
So in tell police are required to purchase libility insurance nothing will change. When a lawsuit affects a police officers retirement instead of the money being payed for by tax payers and police department to stop providing excuses for bad criminal cops then nothing will change.
Police are just learning new tricks just like judges and lawyers and politicians they are continuing to learn how to be corrupt
It's a hype train. A high profile incident happens and they rally an inflated support.
But at the end of the day they criminal fanatics and no one wants to have his or her association with him impact their careers and lives so until the next elections they can sleep for a while
Because people want police! One or a few shitty cops doesn't equate to every law enforcement agent being on the take or beating down blacks and browns for no reason. Really though, it's died down a whole lot. They took their stimulus checks and went home.
It's been predicted and then proven to be a fraud organization to steal money from people. Research it. While black lives do matter I would never support the organization. The the leftists simply used them to manipulate the black people/woketards into voting for their side. War criminal joe blew the organization leader off after the election.
Well, yeah, it's not an election year. What, you thought BLM had actual grassroots support?
That being said, I'm warning every single Thin Blue Line supporter out there, who do you think is going to be the one who's going to be taking your guns or throwing you in the FEMA camps?
It's like give a tenner to a homeless to buy some food and they'd buy drugs. BLM used the support it got stupidly. It had a momentum, but instead of solving problems, people decided to waste their support from the public to throw status into rivers. I get that the "I can do whatever I want" feeling is kinda empowering, that's why people drink alcohol, but power is usually limited and has to be used smart and solve real problems.
Probably because everyone should be treated as equals and not by the shade of skin color they have, all lives matter, we should focus on that
I’ve been focusing on that from the very start. I think groups like BLM INCREASES the divide amongst races/people.
Yeah it definitely has, before that I think most people were getting along with everyone
All part of joe biden plan of a police state. He already wants to read you text message and use tracking and facial recognition.
Let the riots happen egg them on. Fake support then move away from it. Let the crime rise and rise.
So I can bring in military and law enforcement.
Create artificial problems so you can fix it.
All those leaders of BLM the lesbian black lady's and shaken king are all in on the plan
I suppprt BLM …. I support nonviolent interactions and I’ve been to a few peaceful protest where they are fine literally the police are there clapping and stuff. I’m not in a true major city where things can get fired up. Within my career I’ve worked with police officers and some are nice and are willing to listen and be trained well within diversity and culture and then there are ones I wanted to rip their badge off and walk away.
Police officers should be getting trained within diversity meaning checking your bias. Being competent in conflict management and able to interact with different cultures and show empathy is part of our jobs. List goes on but it’s something that really needs to be renewed, watched, and reviewed multiple times a year. Anyone that fails to adhere needs to be reprimanded.
Frankly I don't know how anyone can trust BLM or most police departments when internet research is a thing.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/s36KpMQ0ZNU It’s because people see that BLM is just another money-grafting scheme, and one with cynical racist incitement.
The fact that police brutality isn't happening as much as before couple play a huge part in it. With what happened outside of the Met Gala a few days ago, there was definitely a spike in BLM conversations on social media.
It ever was happening. That's a myth propogated by the anarchist fringe and the self-serving left.
Guess people realized that it's just more likely to face police brutality when you're a criminal XD. It was never about racism.
About time! Watch they go ahead and blame white people and police for this, too.
Both camps are worthless even the girl in the picture is confused
They only show police shootings that will get ratings. Things are occuring like normal where I'm at. I will say a lot more crime has sprang up out of no where tho
The "Pigs in a blanket fry like bacon" hate group only has themselves to blame. People want equality not burned cities and more racism.
Blm is a communist organization, as the mask has come off people have started waking up to this.
Not surprising, groups on the extremes of politics have a tendency to overplay their hand.
BLM was a terrorist organisation , these tend to be faught and die out slowly...
Its the dumbest thing it would be complete lawlessness. And our government would be overthrown just like afgahnistan
All it takes is one more bullshit story to come out and the media will cover it forever, and approval will rise again.
My thought is more an observation: Well funded propaganda always wins out in the end.
The police actually try to get better while all blm do is protest and vandalize
That is the correct trend. We do not need this racist propaganda outlet. We do need police rather we want to admit it or not!!!
Well BLM is a terrorist organization similar to boko haram so fuck em
Is anyone surprised? These types of propaganda groups eventually fade away.
It's about time people saw Black Little Monsters for what they are.
BLM seems to me just extreme left movement, which should be closed
Not in my city. Everybody hates the cops here. Except your dude bro nazis.
All they did summer of 2020 can just be narrowed down to this:
They should not allowed the radical speak and take over their message
Latest fad on it's way out may come back at election time
Overall I trust law enforcement. But I’m a white woman from an upper class environment. Other people have very good reasons for feeling differently.
@Avicenna
Yes, I can agree with this.
During some of the Black Lives Matter riots, there were some white people spray painting on businesses “black lives matter,” and many on-looking blacks were talking down to them saying to stop that or else it’ll look bad for them, the blacks in the neighborhood.
We know that those rioting within cities often can come from OUTSIDE the place they’re rioting at.
How much do you want to bet these white people are not from the neighborhood and/or not poverty stricken?
You have a good likelihood of winning that bet.
@Gwenhwyfar
I downvoted you.
Thanks. I assume you downvoted the last sentence and not the first one.
Downvoted the theme or main idea of message to be honest.
There was no theme. The first and last sentences were directly in conflict with each other because I’m conflicted about this issue.
Oh actually there is only one thing that I didn’t like and was the reason for the downvote.
“I’m a white woman from an upper class environment.”
I’ll explain why in a minute, currently out to eat.
More like upper middle class really. And my point was that I’m not really qualified to pass judgment on Black Lives Matter and whether their struggle is legit or not. But thank you for being honest and discussing this openly.
Well, see, now I can agree on everything you said. I think my issue was you saying “white,” then I’m like 🤦
“How am I going to talk to someone using stats and other facts if they believe this is all about race?”
I’ve tried and it never usually ends well, because someone believing race is a big factor usually holds this believe so strongly despite facts present proving otherwise. It’s a type of denial/cognitive dissonance that this topic usually possesses.
Because it FEELS true when you look at the history of slavery, policing, segregation, and other things within this country but abroad as well against minorities.
It’s a perpetual thing you know.
Meaning, when does it stop?
2021? Black guy gets shot= racism
2247? Black guy gets shot= racism
We already have a lot of evidence that racism isn’t the case so what will convince these people?
You should know better than I that anecdotal evidence is not really “evidence”
So, I was a little irritated because when you say this and I’ve seen/heard this argument hundreds of times you have to just be
“Is there hope?”
You’re white, but you won’t be labeled racist just because you challenge other races’ arguments.
Is it fear?
Don’t worry you’ll be okay, be braver.
Anecdotal evidence most definitely is evidence. It’s used in trials all the time. But I agree with some of your other points. I only specified that I was white to emphasize that my experience is so different from the people represented by BLM that I don’t feel qualified to judge their legitimacy.
I have to get back to work now. But I respect your opinion and I really appreciate you talking this out with me.
Can I ask you another question?
Okay, later on then.
Feel free to ask. I’ll answer when I get back.
@Gwenhwyfar
So, I was going to say.
Since you mentioned being a white upper middle class woman not understanding what blacks go through, I’m almost certain that you wouldn’t be as argumentative if a black person talked about white people as if they understood what it’s like to be one.
I hope I wrote that out in a way where you understand what I’m saying.
In other words, white people are so quick to not judge what black people say about their personal experience because the white persons are “not black.”
Yet, whenever a black person talks about the white persons experience and what it is to be white, white people don’t say “hey, you’re not white, you don’t know what it’s like.”
@embracethepain I see your point. But I’ve never heard a black person say they understood what it was like to be white.
Well, I’m glad because I felt like my wording was off for some reason
Well, it’s not about whether you’ve heard it or not.
I think the whole point is, the water flows in one direction when it comes to this topic.
My question to this point is:
Why does it? Is it wrong? Does it serve to keep everyone divided further?
The answer to the latter is most certainly “yes.” So, then, I ask you and others like you.
Why do you continue to act or do this?
I think its sad honestly, and the movement didn't involve enough violence cuz something actually would've been done
Support for Black Lives Matter was based on Emotions, which is Constantly Changing and Fleeting!
The idea of false dichotomy is why are education levels are falling.
bull not true
ALL OF IT IS A LIE,
NO ONE CARES
Commies gonna get beat down.
The trend needs to continue
Great to see them finally opening their eyes.
They've flat out vanished.
I don’t know nor care
Just looks like more republican bullshit
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