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    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.

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    Methodology

    Most of the data in this report come from online interviews completed by 7,917 law enforcement officers from 54 police and sheriff’s departments across the United States. Of these, 6,795 interviews came from 43 municipal police departments and 1,122 interviews came from 11 county sheriff’s departments. The surveys were administered between May 19 and Aug. […]

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    1. Views of Trump

    Ratings of Trump’s job performance remain more negative than positive: 54% say they disapprove of the job he is doing, while 39% approve. Public evaluations of Trump’s job performance are about the same as they were in February. Ratings of Trump continue to trail those of recent presidents at similar points in their presidencies. In […]

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    3. Police and the community

    Police officers routinely deal with people behaving at their worst. Frequent encounters with verbally abusive and sometimes physically combative citizens also come with the badge. Despite these experiences, the Pew Research Center survey finds that a majority of officers retain a generally positive view of the public. About seven-in-ten reject the assertion that most people […]

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    Appendix B: Methodology for this report

    This report is part of the Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures population projections project that produced the 2015 report “The Future of World Religions: Population Growth Projections, 2010-2050.” The figures described in this report, including estimated  births and deaths by religion and 2015 global population sizes, have not been previously reported. This report also presents results […]

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    Methodology

    The analysis in this report is based on a Pew Research Center survey conducted in association with A+E Networks’ HISTORY. The survey was conducted June 16-July 4, 2016, among a sample of 2,025 adults, ages 18 and older. The survey was conducted by the GfK Group using KnowledgePanel, its nationally representative online research panel. KnowledgePanel […]