Do Black and Hispanic Americans Support Law Enforcement?

Highlights Do Black and Hispanic Americans support law enforcement? Yes, but polling data provides a range of emotions and opinions. Many police officers regardless of…

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Low Income Or Fragile Communities Want More Cops

Highlights 68% of Chicago’s “fragile community” (i.e., low income) residents want a greater police presence. 54 percent of low-income communities nationally want more police officers.…

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Are Police Groups Playing Politics With Crime?

Highlights The majority of Americans trust those running law enforcement agencies. So police organizations are emulating their critics as to stretching truth? Exactly what did…

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Sending The Wrong Messages To Criminals Encourages Crime

Highlights Offenders understand that the rules governing them have softened considerably. We are telling offenders that the justice system is backing down and that their…

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Should Cops Take More Risks?

Highlights Critics want cops to take greater risks. The data states that they are already doing that. Critics want American cops to be more like…

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Like Cops-Correctional Officers Are Leaving The Job

Highlights Nearly one-third of federal correctional officer jobs in the United States are vacant. State correctional agencies are having problems with recruitment and retention. The…

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What The Public Knows About Cops Or Police Shootings Is Usually Wrong

Highlights Is misinformation about law enforcement affecting the vast increases in violent crime? Are we losing cops? There is endless negative publicity (some of it…

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Biden’s National Police Oversight Commission On Hold

Highlights The White House is putting the creation of a national police oversight commission on hold. Is there a need for another national crime and…

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It’s Open Season On Law Enforcement-Is It Time To Leave?

Highlights Per Derek Chauvin and related incidents, are all cops brutal or racist? Per President Obama, society demands too much from police officers. Until communities…

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Media Questions Regarding The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act

Highlights I responded to a national media source regarding the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. Additional media outlets are also inquiring. What does the…

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Law Enforcement Public Opinion Continues To Improve

Highlights Taking all recent polling data together, the overwhelming number of Americans have relatively high opinions of law enforcement regardless of background. Differences as to…

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Is There A National Police Strike?

Highlights Department of Justice data indicates that there is no national police strike or slowdown. There are, however, problems in communities where trust between cops…

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Fewer Police Officers-Black And Female Cops Increase Dramatically

Highlights A variety of police and crime statistics are offered by The Council on Criminal Justice. Author Leonard Adam Sipes, Jr. Retired federal senior spokesperson.…

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Are Older Or College Educated Cops Better At Policing?

Highlights Do older or college-educated cops perform better than their counterparts? Because thousands of officers are leaving policing, and with plummeting recruitment, are we hiring…

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Cops Are Leaving-What Does This Mean For Public Safety?

Highlights Cops are leaving the job in record numbers. If there is any question as to the impact of police officers on society, remove them…

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How Americans Feel About Law Enforcement

Highlights Polling data show a mixed bag of results regarding public perceptions of law enforcement, some is harshly negative, some (based on interactions) is quite…

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Protests, Law Enforcement And Crime Dominate The News And Presidential Debates

Highlights Presidential candidates Joe Biden and Donald Trump will debate for the first time. One of the six topics is protests, crime and violence in…

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Per Gallup, The Majority Of Americans Rate Police Encounters As Positive, Respectful and Fair

Highlights The data from a variety of sources indicate that those coming into contact with law enforcement (rather than a general public opinion poll) rate…

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81 Percent Express Confidence in Police Yet Polls Show Declines And Disparities

Highlights When adding all three categories in a recent Gallup poll, a great deal of confidence, quite a lot, and some, 81 percent expressed a…

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Funding Reduced For Most Police Agencies-Violence Increasing

Highlights Few law enforcement agencies, regardless of size, are being spared. It’s being called a “perfect storm” and the biggest budget cuts in a decade.…

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