Highlights Hear a podcast of this article on Spotify, YouTube Podcasts, and other audio-video sources. The overwhelming majority of Americans expressed satisfaction with their…
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Highlights It’s safe to say, based on polling data, that the great majority of the 54 million yearly police-citizen contacts, interactions were mostly positive which…
View More 77% Say Their Interaction With Police Was A Positive Experience
Highlights The dynamics of response times have real implications for law enforcement policy. Community-based policing is promoted in just about every research study to improve…
View More Will People Stop Calling The Police? Response Times Increase DramaticallyHighlights Polling data will differ based on race, age, and political affiliation but regardless of who you are, the majority of all groups view law…
View More Why Do We Mistrust American Opinions Of Law Enforcement?Highlights In Louisville, residents were more than twice as likely to cite public safety, not police reform, as the biggest problem facing the city. In Oklahoma…
View More Public Safety A Priority Well Above Law Enforcement ReformHighlights For police officers, being proactive and/or making arrests is extraordinarily dangerous. With the immense criticism directed towards law enforcement regarding use of force and…
View More Arrests and Police Stops Are Hazardous-Here’s WhyHighlights Are cops leaving the job? Do we have enough police officers? Are they properly funded? Does the Department of Justice have a plan for…
View More The Number of Police Officers Leaving Law EnforcementHighlights Do Black and Hispanic Americans support law enforcement? Yes, but polling data provides a range of emotions and opinions. Many police officers regardless of…
View More Do Black and Hispanic Americans Support Law Enforcement?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.…
View More Low Income Or Fragile Communities Want More CopsHighlights Per Gallup, 81 percent of African Americans want the police presence in their communities to stay the same or increased. Out of 40-60 million…
View More Per Gallup Black Americans Want Cops In Their CommunitiesHighlights Per Derek Chauvin and related incidents, are all cops brutal or racist? Per President Obama, society demands too much from police officers. Until communities…
View More It’s Open Season On Law Enforcement-Is It Time To Leave?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…
View More Law Enforcement Public Opinion Continues To ImproveHighlights Department of Justice data indicates that there is no national police strike or slowdown. There are, however, problems in communities where trust between cops…
View More Is There A National Police Strike?