One theme of the Black Lives Matter movement is that rampant police brutality has cost the police the "community's" supposed "trust," and that the police need to earn it back by genuflecting to BLM's (and the Administration's) sneering cops-should-sit-in-the-corner attitude.
BLM is exactly correct that police should earn the trust of normal, law-abiding members of the community. Of course, they already have that trust in record numbers, as this week's Gallup poll makes clear. Police are vastly more trusted than, to take one example, lawyers (76% to 21%).
But we should not want thugs and punks like these https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/10/26/flash-mob-of-150-teens-attacks-temple-university-students-cops-in-philly/ to trust the police. We should want them to fear the police, the more the better.
I will welcome comments to make the case otherwise
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