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Gallup: Urban Blacks in U.S. Have Little Confidence in Police
Gallup ^ | 12/08/2014 | Jeffrey Jones

Posted on 12/08/2014 3:28:26 PM PST by SeekAndFind

Edited on 12/08/2014 3:51:30 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

PRINCETON, N.J. -- As controversy continues to swirl about police officers' treatment of blacks, an analysis of Gallup data underscores how much less likely U.S. blacks are than whites or Hispanics to express confidence in the police. The analysis also reveals that blacks living in urban areas are significantly less likely than blacks in non-urban areas to say they are confident in the police.


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blacks; police; urbanblacks
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To: SeekAndFind

It is pretty obvious that the police have a higher confidence level of getting shot, deemed racist, or accused of racial profiling when they respond to that “urban” area. The fact that they respond at all into that no-win situation says legion about the general dedication of the LEOs. Remember the riots in Cincinnati? The police were damned if they responded and damned if they did not, the only difference being that if they did not respond, they were pretty sure they could go home after their shift.


21 posted on 12/08/2014 3:56:29 PM PST by Temujinshordes
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To: SeekAndFind

I would have low confidence in them if they kept arresting me.


22 posted on 12/08/2014 3:56:49 PM PST by Raycpa
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To: SeekAndFind

The blacks in my city say they don’t trust the police, they don’t like the police, and they want city government to send more police to their neighborhoods because crime is too high. (But they don’t say all three at the same time.)


23 posted on 12/08/2014 3:57:09 PM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: Bryanw92

Only goes to prove the cops aren’t racist. When a Black and White pulls over a black, the black doesn’t know know if the cops are black or white.


24 posted on 12/08/2014 4:01:09 PM PST by spawn44 (MOO)
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To: Raycpa

I would think you would have a high confidence in them if they kept arresting you every time you violated the law. How many times have you been arrested for not breaking the law?


25 posted on 12/08/2014 4:03:35 PM PST by Temujinshordes
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To: SeekAndFind

Give us another few years.....


26 posted on 12/08/2014 4:12:18 PM PST by Uncle Miltie ('The HERO of the (0bamacare) story is Mitt Romney' - "Stupid" Jonathan Gruber)
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To: SeekAndFind

I wonder what would happen if the headline was “U.S. and Police Have Little Faith in Urban Blacks”.


27 posted on 12/08/2014 4:12:23 PM PST by PittsburghAfterDark
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To: SeekAndFind

If I were part of a criminal class, I’d feel the same way.


28 posted on 12/08/2014 4:13:12 PM PST by Sans-Culotte (Psalm 14:1 ~ The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”)
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To: joshua c

Police arresting more criminals might interfere with their primary responsibility of raising revenue for the welfare state and getting home without incident.


29 posted on 12/08/2014 4:14:30 PM PST by Uncle Miltie ('The HERO of the (0bamacare) story is Mitt Romney' - "Stupid" Jonathan Gruber)
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To: SeekAndFind

Most have “no confidence” because they have criminal tendencies (upon which they often act).


30 posted on 12/08/2014 4:15:12 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: SeekAndFind

I have little confidence in urban blacks in US.


31 posted on 12/08/2014 4:23:29 PM PST by KevinB (Barack Obama: Our first black, gay, Kenyan, Socialist, Muslim president!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Solution: pull the police out of black neighborhoods and let them kill themselves.


32 posted on 12/08/2014 4:26:01 PM PST by Logical me
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To: SeekAndFind

Yet they seem to have the utmost in confidence in the Democratic party, the group most responsible for the wretched state of urban black Americans.


33 posted on 12/08/2014 4:37:44 PM PST by RC one (Militarized law enforcement is just a politically correct way of saying martial law enforcement.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I, even though being of Sicilian Heritage, would say that in the old says a lot of Italians would have said the same thing. Cops just get in the way of making a living; or beating down someone you just don’t like or even hate.


34 posted on 12/08/2014 4:40:24 PM PST by BilLies ( it isn't the color of the skin, but the culture embraced that degrades.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I have little confidence in police. They have become too militarized and too eager to disarm the citizenry. White, black, brown or pink.


35 posted on 12/08/2014 4:42:53 PM PST by jwalsh07
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To: SeekAndFind
Well, Urban Blacks may have little confidence in the police. OK...I understand that. Now how about that I believe Urban Blacks are a bunch of racist thugs that revel in barbarism and grievance by wrapping themselves in a cloak of victimhood.
36 posted on 12/08/2014 4:46:56 PM PST by MasterGunner01
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To: SeekAndFind

Police and America don’t have in any them either.


37 posted on 12/08/2014 5:26:28 PM PST by vpintheak (Keep calm and Rain Steel!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I don’t really give a **** what these people think.


38 posted on 12/08/2014 5:42:16 PM PST by grimalkin (We are a nation under God. If we ever forget this, we are a nation gone under. -Ronald Reagan)
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To: SeekAndFind

How many urban areas are governed by the Democrap Party?


39 posted on 12/08/2014 5:42:33 PM PST by leprechaun9
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To: SeekAndFind
And someone should care what the inner city thinks?

Perhaps if they contributed something to the country, their opinion might matter, but until then......

40 posted on 12/08/2014 6:39:26 PM PST by doorgunner69
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