A poll from a week ago might be pretty out of date now. Americans' perceptions of the police fell about 10% during that time: https://www.usatoday.com/story/ne

A poll from a week ago might be pretty out of date now. Americans' perceptions of the police fell about 10% during that time: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/06/06/americans-views-police-drop-significantly-amid-protests-survey/3159072001/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/06/06/amer... An important factor to watch is how that phrase "defund the police" gets defined--see peer replies here for examples of how people can interpret it positively. I predict some of the ideas behind it will indeed become mainstream and we will see police budgets fall in the next few years. LA's mayor has already committed to cuts, for example. I would not underestimate the impact of social media to rapidly move ideas from the radical fringe to close enough to the mainstream to have political impact. See for example InfoWars, avoiding vaccines, "Q"-type conspiracies, heck even Donald Trump himself.