THREAD: According to a Washington Post-ABC News poll, a majority of Americans support the Black Lives Matter movement and a record 69 percent say black people and other minorities are not treated as equal to white people in the criminal justice system. 1/10
But the public generally opposes calls to shift some police funding to social services or remove statues of Confederate generals or presidents who enslaved people 2/10
Top Findings:
Americans’ confidence in police appears shaken after a wave of national protests following Floyd’s killing. Compared to 2014, fewer Americans say they are confident that police are adequately trained to avoid using excessive force 3/10
The share of Americans saying that black people and other minorities do not receive equal treatment in the criminal justice system has risen by 15 percentage points from 2014 — and this year marks the first time a majority of whites has held this view 4/10
Larger shares of virtually every demographic group now say that minorities do not receive equal treatment as white people in the criminal justice system 5/10
Today, that view is held by 62% of white people, up 18 points from 2014. Among black people, 97% now assert there is unequal treatment of minorities, up from 89 percent in 2014. Over two-thirds, 68 percent of Hispanic people, say the same, roughly similar to 2014 6/10
The partisan split in views of how police treat black people has expanded. Republicans are now 60 points more likely than Democrats to have confidence that police treat white and black people equally (80% vs. 20%), compared with a 43-point gap in 2014 (77%vs. 34%) 7/10
Almost 8 in 10 black Americans say black people experience racial discrimination in their communities, including half who say it happens “often” 8/10
There is far less support for some other high-profile proposals that have been in the forefront of public debate recently. Ex. On issue of police funding, for 55% of Americans oppose moving funds from police departments to srvs — and 43% say they oppose it “strongly” 9/10
The majority of Americans oppose removing public statues honoring Confederate generals. 52 percent of Americans oppose removing public statues honoring Confederate generals, while 43% support their removal. 10/10
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