Racist policing is making Black and White Americans question police authority
Jackson, J.
, McKay, T., Cheliotis, L., Fine, A., Trinkner, R. & Bradford, B.
(14 July 2020)
Racist policing is making Black and White Americans question police authority.
USApp-American Politics and Policy Blog.
, McKay, T., Cheliotis, L., Fine, A., Trinkner, R. & Bradford, B.
(14 July 2020)
Racist policing is making Black and White Americans question police authority.
USApp-American Politics and Policy Blog.
In new research based on a nationwide survey of 1,500 Americans, Jonathan Jackson and co-authors find that years of racially targeted policing is leading people to question the fairness and legitimacy of the police, such that 40 percent believe that the police should be defunded. Regardless of respondents’ race, they find that concerns about the under-protection and over-regulation of Black communities may be threatening the public support that police fundamentally rely upon.