State Leaders and Legislative Approval: Handling of Police misconduct (June 2021)
category | Total |
---|---|
Approve strongly | 12% |
Approve somewhat | 17% |
Neither approve nor disapprove | 23% |
Disapprove somewhat | 11% |
Disapprove strongly | 21% |
Don't know | 15% |
Category | Democrat | Independent | Republican |
---|---|---|---|
Approve strongly | 4% | 8% | 21% |
Approve somewhat | 5% | 10% | 29% |
Neither approve nor disapprove | 17% | 21% | 29% |
Disapprove somewhat | 20% | 17% | 3% |
Disapprove strongly | 42% | 23% | 3% |
Don't know | 12% | 21% | 16% |
Category | Lean Democrat | Not very strong Democrat | Strong Democrat |
---|---|---|---|
Approve strongly | 5% | 2% | 5% |
Approve somewhat | 6% | 6% | 4% |
Neither approve nor disapprove | 13% | 27% | 15% |
Disapprove somewhat | 29% | 15% | 17% |
Disapprove strongly | 40% | 32% | 48% |
Don't know | 7% | 18% | 12% |
Category | Lean Republican | Not very strong Republican | Strong Republican |
---|---|---|---|
Approve strongly | 21% | 12% | 23% |
Approve somewhat | 29% | 26% | 29% |
Neither approve nor disapprove | 27% | 34% | 29% |
Disapprove somewhat | 6% | 5% | 1% |
Disapprove strongly | 2% | 4% | 2% |
Don't know | 15% | 19% | 15% |
Category | Liberals | Moderates | Conservatives |
---|---|---|---|
Approve strongly | 2% | 9% | 21% |
Approve somewhat | 3% | 13% | 26% |
Neither approve nor disapprove | 12% | 25% | 29% |
Disapprove somewhat | 20% | 14% | 4% |
Disapprove strongly | 49% | 21% | 4% |
Don't know | 14% | 17% | 15% |
Category | Lean liberal | Somewhat liberal | Extremely liberal |
---|---|---|---|
Approve strongly | 2% | 1% | 4% |
Approve somewhat | 4% | 2% | 4% |
Neither approve nor disapprove | 15% | 10% | 12% |
Disapprove somewhat | 26% | 20% | 14% |
Disapprove strongly | 36% | 51% | 56% |
Don't know | 16% | 15% | 10% |
Category | Lean conservative | Somewhat conservative | Extremely conservative |
---|---|---|---|
Approve strongly | 13% | 17% | 28% |
Approve somewhat | 27% | 29% | 24% |
Neither approve nor disapprove | 24% | 29% | 32% |
Disapprove somewhat | 15% | 3% | 1% |
Disapprove strongly | 11% | 3% | 2% |
Don't know | 10% | 19% | 14% |
Category | White | Black | Hispanic |
---|---|---|---|
Approve strongly | 13% | 7% | 13% |
Approve somewhat | 19% | 9% | 17% |
Neither approve nor disapprove | 24% | 22% | 24% |
Disapprove somewhat | 10% | 14% | 13% |
Disapprove strongly | 17% | 36% | 20% |
Don't know | 17% | 12% | 12% |
Category | Male | Female |
---|---|---|
Approve strongly | 13% | 12% |
Approve somewhat | 19% | 14% |
Neither approve nor disapprove | 24% | 23% |
Disapprove somewhat | 11% | 12% |
Disapprove strongly | 20% | 22% |
Don't know | 13% | 17% |
Category | Urban | Suburban | Rural |
---|---|---|---|
Approve strongly | 9% | 12% | 18% |
Approve somewhat | 14% | 17% | 18% |
Neither approve nor disapprove | 23% | 24% | 24% |
Disapprove somewhat | 13% | 12% | 7% |
Disapprove strongly | 28% | 20% | 14% |
Don't know | 13% | 15% | 19% |
Category | 18-29 | 30-44 | 45-64 | 65+ |
---|---|---|---|---|
Approve strongly | 8% | 12% | 14% | 13% |
Approve somewhat | 11% | 12% | 18% | 22% |
Neither approve nor disapprove | 16% | 24% | 23% | 28% |
Disapprove somewhat | 16% | 12% | 10% | 9% |
Disapprove strongly | 25% | 23% | 21% | 17% |
Don't know | 24% | 17% | 13% | 11% |
Category | No HS | High school graduate | Some college | 2-year | 4-year | Post-grad |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Approve strongly | 6% | 13% | 15% | 15% | 9% | 12% |
Approve somewhat | 10% | 18% | 16% | 16% | 16% | 18% |
Neither approve nor disapprove | 37% | 26% | 22% | 20% | 24% | 18% |
Disapprove somewhat | 14% | 7% | 12% | 14% | 13% | 14% |
Disapprove strongly | 6% | 20% | 20% | 17% | 25% | 25% |
Don't know | 27% | 16% | 15% | 17% | 13% | 14% |
Category | Extremely important | Somewhat important | Not very important | Not at all important |
---|---|---|---|---|
Approve strongly | 17% | 9% | 8% | 10% |
Approve somewhat | 20% | 17% | 16% | 8% |
Neither approve nor disapprove | 23% | 31% | 17% | 18% |
Disapprove somewhat | 9% | 12% | 19% | 10% |
Disapprove strongly | 16% | 15% | 26% | 35% |
Don't know | 15% | 15% | 15% | 18% |
Category | The Bible is the actual word of God and is to be taken literally, word for word. | The Bible is the word of God but not everything in it should be taken literally, word for word. | The Bible is a book written by men and is not the word of God. | Don't know. |
---|---|---|---|---|
Approve strongly | 19% | 12% | 8% | 6% |
Approve somewhat | 22% | 19% | 9% | 12% |
Neither approve nor disapprove | 28% | 23% | 16% | 37% |
Disapprove somewhat | 9% | 11% | 15% | 10% |
Disapprove strongly | 12% | 18% | 37% | 16% |
Don't know | 11% | 18% | 15% | 19% |