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This report is largely based on a Pew Research Center survey of police officers conducted by the National Police Research Platform (NPRP), which collaborated with Center researchers on the questionnaire and oversaw the technical administration of the survey. The Center retained final editorial control over the questionnaire, the analysis of the survey and the contents […]
Government restrictions on religion and social hostilities involving religion increased in 2015 for the first time in three years. Government harassment and use of force surged in Europe, as did social hostilities against Muslims.
Most of the data in this report come from online interviews completed by 7,917 law enforcement officers from 54 police and sheriffโs departments across the United States. Of these, 6,795 interviews came from 43 municipal police departments and 1,122 interviews came from 11 county sheriffโs departments. The surveys were administered between May 19 and Aug. […]
Tell us how you think police would answer each of five questions in a Pew Research Center nationwide survey of 7,917 police officer then weโll tell you how officers actually answered each question i
While the main focus of this report is the prevalence and impact of specific harassing behaviors, the phenomenon of online harassment takes place within a broader context of negative experiences. This chapter documents three other categories of invasive or inappropriate behaviors people might encounter online: nonconsensual sexual imagery, untrue information and โemergentโ forms of invasive […]
Most Democrats are dissatisfied with the nation’s progress on gender equality, while more than half of Republicans say it has been about right.
In 2016, European Union countries, Norway and Switzerland received more than 1.2 million asylum applications, below the record 1.3 million applications received in 2015.
Experts are split on whether the coming years will see less misinformation online. Those who foresee improvement hope for technological and societal solutions. Others say bad actors using technology can exploit human vulnerabilities.
The more hopeful among these respondents cited a series of changes they expect in the next decade that could improve the tone of online life. They believe: Technical and human solutions will arise as the online world splinters into segmented, controlled social zones with the help of artificial intelligence (AI). Anti-harassment is a technologically solvable […]
A noteworthy share of these respondents focused on the enormous systemic and structural realities that confront those trying to plan for the future of work and workers. Many of the least hopeful in this expert canvassing look into the future and see a world where most of the work is done by robots and automated […]
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