A new poll found broad support for a wide array of police reform measures. Defunding the police was the only one with clear opposition
Photo: Brandon Bell/Getty Images American public opinion is undergoing a transformative change in the wake of the George Floyd protests. Three-quarters of the country supports the demonstrations. An equal percentage believe Floyd’s death is a sign of broader problems in how police treat black Americans. A new poll by HuffPost finds broad support for a wide array of police reform measures. Graphic: HuffPost/YouGov Some activists have framed the divide in racial terms.
HuffPost also found most people understand the slogan to mean significant reductions in police budgets, rather than the more radical meaning of complete abolition that was proposed by activists in Minneapolis: Indeed, people who work in protest movements on the left or the right have an incentive not to align with majority public opinion. Their incentive is to distinguish themselves from mainstream opinion as authentic voices of the movement. A policy demand that presidential candidates or congressional leaders can easily take up is almost by definition not radical.
It is entirely possible that activists are pursuing a correct strategy, by outlining a radical stance that allows Democratic leaders to reject their demands and position themselves in the center of public opinion while still proposing serious reforms. The activists may be playing a kind of kayfabe role, which requires them to flout public opinion and for political leaders to flout their demands.
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