Do Americans trust the police? It could depend on your political beliefs, poll finds – By Brooke Wolford (Kansas City Star) / Aug 12 2020
Months after demonstrators protested the death of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man who died in police custody, a new Gallup poll revealed Americans’ confidence in law enforcement is at a 27-year low.
Gallup began tracking the public’s confidence in key U.S. institutions in 1993. In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the public’s trust in the medical system, public school system, banks, small business and the church/organized religion increased, the poll found.
But for the first time in the poll’s history, the majority of American adults do not trust the police. Confidence in law enforcement fell 5 points to 48%, according to Gallup.
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