The recent stories out of Ferguson, Mo., and Staten Island, N.Y., have highlighted the distrust that exists between African-Americans and the police, but a new data release from Gallup shows just how deep that distrust goes – and how African-Americans in big cities in particular lack confidence in police. CONT. […] Read more »
Growing Public Support for Gun Rights
For the first time in more than two decades of Pew Research Center surveys, there is more support for gun rights than gun control. Currently, 52% say it is more important to protect the right of Americans to own guns, while 46% say it is more important to control gun […] Read more »
Sharp Racial Divisions in Reactions to Brown, Garner Decisions
The public has very different reactions to the recent grand jury decisions in two police-related deaths that have sparked protests in cities across the country. By 50% to 37%, Americans say a grand jury made the right decision not to charge former Ferguson, Mo., police officer Darren Wilson in the […] Read more »
Video: Injustice in the Justice System?
A new NBC News/Marist Polling that shows that confidence in the legal system has decreased. Meet the Press Read more »
Video: Are race relations better or worse under Obama?
Jeanne Cummings, David Ignatius, Charles Blow, and Gerald Seib discuss a new Bloomberg poll with some surprising findings on race in America under the country’s first black president. Face the Nation Read more »
Poll Shows Deep Racial Divide in Confidence in Law Enforcement
Americans are deeply split along racial lines in their level of confidence that police officers will treat white and black people equally and refrain from using excessive force, a new NBC News/Marist poll shows. In the wake of the deaths of unarmed black men in police confrontations in New York […] Read more »