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.
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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!
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
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.
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.
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.
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