Since the Black Lives Matter movement’s rise to prominence, there has been significant opposition from both media and political figures who believe that the movement is promoting a “war on cops.” Because there is no evidence to support this claim, the current study examines the basis for negative attitudes towards Black Lives Matter using a sample of over 500 undergraduate students from a large Midwestern university. The findings indicate that the strongest predictors of negative attitudes towards Black Lives Matter are being white and holding symbolically racist attitudes. Perceiving the police to be equivalent to soldiers in a war on crime, perceiving police misconduct to be less common, and holding a conservative crime ideology are also significant in the model.

自从“黑人生活问题”运动声名media起以来，媒体和政治人物都表示强烈反对，他们认为该运动正在推动“警察战争”。因为没有证据支持这一说法，所以本研究使用来自中西部一所大型大学的500多名本科生的样本，研究了他们对“黑死病”的消极态度的基础。研究结果表明，对黑人生活至关重要的消极态度的最强预测因素是白人，并且具有象征性的种族主义态度。在模型中，认为警察在与犯罪的战争中等同于士兵，认为警察的不当行为不那么普遍，并且持有保守的犯罪意识形态也很重要。