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[Lime]

Gallup did a survey on US citizens' confience in the police and compared it to previous data. One would think that after all the unrest and protests and evidence of police brutality, that confidence would've lowered across all groups. But if you take a look at the data:

As you can see, white people, conservatives, republicans, and old people have actually increased their confidence in the US police after all the recorded violence, all the protests and political movements.

Confidence in police then dropped to a record-tying low of 52% in June 2015, as the Black Lives Matter movement gained national attention with a series of protests against police shootings of unarmed blacks in New York City; Ferguson, Missouri; and North Charleston, South Carolina. As violence continued over the past two years -- with fatal police shootings of black men in Minnesota and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, followed by deadly attacks on police in Dallas and Baton Rouge by black men -- the percentage of Americans confident in the police climbed back to 56% in June 2016 and to 57% last month.

Conclusion:

A closer look, however, reveals a troubling loss of confidence among key groups in U.S. society. Police already must deal with low levels of trust among blacks, and a similar situation may be occurring among Hispanics. The lack of confidence among younger Americans could presage a growing loss of respect for police in the future. The continuing drop in confidence among liberals is already producing political repercussions.

Beyond those specific possible consequences, the loss of confidence among these groups creates yet another gap between young and old, whites and Hispanics, and conservatives and liberals, marking how divided the nation has become.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/213869/confidence-police-back-historical-average.aspx

 

[Infinite]

Totally not shocked nor surprised by this. This is the land that elected Donald "we have to get tough on crime again" Trump after all

 

[old]

Older white Republicans have gamed the government to use the police to go after other groups. Of course they support them.

I'd like to see those other groups do the same back. Use the government to make illegal the things older white conservatives do and then sick the police after them. Make bingo illegal. Make cigars illegal. Go after Cuban cigar sellers and their users like they go after crack. Etc. "Felonize" the other side and then take away their vote. It's the most cynical form of democracy but liberals have been suffering it for decades.

 

[WhiteRabbitEXE]

Embarrassing doesn't even come close to cutting it.

 

[norm9]

You read a lot of the criticism of police in the vein of they're not cracking ENOUGH skulls.

 

[Dai101]

Oh look, them moderate allies. Who'd have thought?

 

[WiiredShawn]

Surprise - the group of Americans that is most actively hostile toward minorities is confident in the organization that is actively hostile toward minorities.

 

[ElBoxyBrown]

Makes sense. They're doing a good job protecting them from the scary black people.

Spoiler

/s

 

[commedieu]

Oh look, them moderate allies. Who'd have thought?

.

 

[Verelios]

Top kek

No surprise and I'm honestly not going to say 'wow'.

 

[ghostofsparta]

The difference between liberal and conservative and black and white is staggering

Divided country indeed

 

[AstroLad]

modern-day conservatism is pretty much just fuck you POC & women. i doubt anyone even answers survey questions with remote honesty anymore, they're just figuring out how to further their own agenda or defeat someone else's. that's why so many modern conservative positions and opinions are farcical

 

[Elegant Weapon]

As much as I read "cops kill white men the most" as a twisted defense of police, it appears that whites in general are willing to sacrifice their own or at least look away and ignore police brutality & lack of accountability as long as the police keep lower classes like people of color in their place

 

[Nepenthe]

Oh look, them moderate allies. Who'd have thought?

I think this is the more salient takeaway than the expected and unsurprising results of how this liberals and conservatives would view police.

Mm.

 

[Lime]

The difference between liberal and conservative and black and white is staggering

Divided country indeed

39% support after everything that's been put to light and repeated over and over again (despite minority groups yelling about this for decades) is still too high of a number for 'liberals', imo.

 

[DontBeThatGuy]

Dig in those heels.

 

[Strike]

It's funny how their general distrust of government seems to go away once the issue of police brutality comes up. Jack-booted government thugs becomes "BOYS IN BLUUUUE"

As much as I read "cops kill white men the most" as a twisted defense of police, it appears that whites in general are willing to sacrifice their own or at least look away and ignore police brutality & lack of accountability as long as the police keep lower classes like people of color in their place

That's how they vote. They'll put up with it as long as darkies and foreigners get it worse.

 

[SlickShoesRUCrazy]

Republicans want a police states against anybody that isn't republican and white.

Nothing new.