white conservatives are silent

It wasn’t always this way. Plenty of movies in the 70s for example show cops in a negative light. Usually it was just “asshole cops want to stop the white boys from having fun” a la Dukes of Hazzard, but still. I don’t think you could make a movie like “Rambo” in 2023, at least not without the pigs squealing about Brian Dennehy’s portrayal of them. I mean, even as a little kid in the late 80s, I don’t recall the levels of bootlicking by white people like we see today.

So what happened? I think after US cities became slightly less segregated post Civil Rights era and you had marginally more racial diversity in the suburbs, white folks began to see the police as the enforcers of white supremacy. But this all really went into overdrive after Michael Brown. White folks perceived BLM as a direct attack on white supremacy, and had a dialectical response to it - supporting the pigs isn’t really about supporting the pigs. It’s more about taking a stand for white supremacy but laundering it through support for cops. Just my take.