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short readsJan 23, 2017

Police, public differ on key issues but align on others

The public and the police differ on issues ranging from an assault rifle ban to racial progress in the U.S., but their views align on other issues.
reportSep 14, 2017

How ‘Drop-Off’ Voters Differ From Consistent Voters and Nonvoters

The 2018 midterm elections will be determined in large part by who goes to the polls and who stays home.
short readsJan 11, 2017

Key findings on how police view their jobs amid protests and calls for reform

A new Pew Research Center nationwide survey of 7,917 police officers focuses on a wide range of topics about policing, including how police view their jobs, officers’ experiences in the field and how these fatal encounters have impacted the way they do their jobs.
short readsFeb 8, 2017

A closer look at police officers who have fired their weapon on duty

About a quarter of all officers say they have ever fired their service weapon while on the job. Are some more likely than others to have fired their weapon in the line of duty?
reportJan 11, 2017

6. Police views, public views

Police and the public hold sharply different views about key aspects of policing as well as on some major policy issues facing the country. For example, most police say more officers are needed to adequately patrol their communities, while the majority of the public doesn’t think more officers are necessary. A majority of officers oppose […]
reportJul 3, 2018

2. The negatives of digital life

There were considerably fewer complaints about the personal impact among these expert respondents. But their own lives and observations give testimony that there are ways in which digital life has ill-served some participants. The following anecdotes speak to the themes that the internet has not helped some users’ well-being. If someone would have told me […]
reportJan 11, 2017

4. Police, fatal encounters and ensuing protests

Shortly after noon on Aug. 9, 2014, Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black man, was shot and killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. Since 2015, almost 500 blacks have been fatally shot by police.[11. numoffset=”11″ Pew Research Center analysis of data collected by The Washington Post.] Their deaths and the disputed circumstances surrounding many […]
reportJan 11, 2017

Behind the Badge

Majorities of police officers say that recent high-profile encounters between black citizens and police have made their jobs riskier and left many officers reluctant to fully carry out some of their duties.
short readsJan 11, 2017

Q&A: How Pew Research Center surveyed nearly 8,000 police officers

Read an interview with Senior Editor Rich Morin and Senior Research Methodologist Andrew Mercer, who were involved in our groundbreaking police officer survey.
reportJan 11, 2017

5. Reimagining the police through training and reforms

Recent fatalities of blacks during police encounters have brought police training and reforms to the forefront of conversations on how to prevent the use of unnecessary force. Recommendations have been made to prevent these types of situations from occurring, such as requiring officers to wear body cameras and training officers on how to de-escalate situations […]

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