There's a concentrated corporate media propaganda effort in effect right now to conflate the rise in crime with the outright rejection of US police powers by the general populace.
And yet despite this, there's still a bunch of people, even in an adjacent thread on this site about the US' low trust in media [0], complaining about the "leftist bias", "left-wing bias in the media", "left-wing slant", etc.
0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27617011