Gallup Poll Finds Only 19% of Black Adults Have Confidence in the Police and Only 11% Have Confidence in the Criminal Justice System [but Belief in Authority (the right to rule) has Increased]

BLACK CONFIDENCE IN THE COPS MAY BE DOWN BUT BELIEF IN AUTHORITY, WHICH IS THE RIGHT TO RULE OVER OTHERS APPEARS TO HAVE INCREASED ACCORDING TO THE EDELMAN TRUST SPRING UPDATE (see below). Authority is the idea that some people have the moral right to forcibly control others, and that, consequently, those others have the moral obligation to obey.’ [MORE] all statists believe in giving police officers absolute power over us within certain limits that they can interpret for themselves on the street. SUCH POWER IS “absolute” BECAUSE COPS HAVE THE POWER TO TAKE YOUR LIFE. STATISTS NAIVELY BELIEVE THAT THEY CAN FIND THE RIGHT PERSONS TO WIELD THIS GREAT POWER OVER US. IF PEOPLE HAVE NO RIGHT TO INITIATE UNPROVOKED ACTS OF VIOLENCE AGAINST OTHER PEOPLE THEN HOW COULD THE PEOPLE DELEGATE THIS POWER TO THE POLICE? ALL government POWER COMES FROM THE PEOPLE RIGHT? THE ANSWER IS THAT AUTHORITY IS AN IRRATIONAL FARCE used to enslave. [MORE]

From [HERE] and [HERE] Public confidence in those wearing brown or blue and sworn “to protect and serve” is pretty low right now.

A Gallup poll released on Wednesday showed that, nationwide, confidence in police has fallen to 48%, which the lowest recorded level since the legacy of George Gallup began tracking public opinion on this matter. This compares to 64% confidence in 2004.

The 2020 results are based on a June 8-July 24 poll of 1,226 U.S. adults, which included an oversample of Black Americans. Gallup's Confidence in Institutions sequence has been asked since 1973, including annual measures since 1993. This year's survey was conducted after George Floyd was killed while in police custody in Minneapolis in late May.

Fifty-six percent of White adults and 19% of Black adults say they have "a great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in the police. This 37-percentage-point racial gap is the largest found for any of 16 major U.S. institutions rated in Gallup's annual Confidence in Institutions poll.

Only 11% of Black adults say they have confidence in the criminal justice system.

Black and White respondents' ratings of the presidency display nearly as large a gap: 47% of White Americans versus 13% of Black Americans express confidence in the institution with Republican President Donald Trump in office. [MORE]

Nevertheless, since the pandemic belief or confidence in the need for government has risen in the US and globally. As reported previously, according to the 2020 Edelman Trust Barometer Spring Update: “Trust and the Covid-19 Pandemic reveals a remarkable shift in the landscape of trust since January. The Spring Update shows that amid the Covid-19 pandemic, government trust surged 11 points to an all-time high of 65 percent, making it the most trusted institution for the first time in our 20 years of study.” The study explains,

“Since 2011, government had languished in distrust globally, as gridlock in the EU over Greek debt and several corruption scandals in developing nations eroded trust. The Spring Update shows a striking comeback for government: at 65 percent trust (+11 points since January), the public is relying on government to protect them in a manner not seen since World War II. Trust in government is not only up by double digits in six of 11 markets surveyed, it is the only institution trusted by the mass population (62 percent).

During an unprecedented time when government response at all levels could mean the difference between life and death, the public is placing its faith in government to lead the fight against the virus. In fact, respondents want government out front in all areas of the pandemic response: to provide economic relief (86 percent), to get the country back to normal (79 percent), to contain Covid-19 (73 percent), and to inform the public (72 percent).“