Views of Race, Policing and Black Lives Matter in the 5 Years Since George Floyd’s Killing
Americans have expressed skepticism that attention to racial issues after Floyd’s killing led to changes that improved Black people’s lives.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Americans have expressed skepticism that attention to racial issues after Floyd’s killing led to changes that improved Black people’s lives.
Federal statistics show dramatic declines in U.S. violent and property crime rates since the early 1990s.
On issues as varied as education and crime, Americans often have a rosier view of how things are going in their communities than in the nation as a whole.
Most U.S. adults say they are interested in several types of local crime coverage, but far fewer say this information is easy to find.
59% of public K-12 teachers say they are at least somewhat worried about the possibility of a shooting ever happening at their school.
Voters who support Biden and Trump have starkly different opinions on many issues, and these two groups are divided internally as well.
Brazilians increasingly say their country is or will become a top world power, and trust in their government has roughly doubled since 2017.
More than 44 million #BlackLivesMatter tweets from nearly 10 million distinct users currently exist on Twitter today. Over half of all existing tweets that include the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag were posted from May to September 2020.
Today, 51% of U.S. adults say they support the Black Lives Matter movement – down from 67% in June 2020. A majority of Americans say the increased focus on race and racial inequality in the past three years hasn’t led to improvement for Black Americans.
There’s a fair amount of data indicating that Americans’ driving habits have worsened over the past five years, at least in some ways.
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