Support or Oppose requiring police officers to intervene if another officer is violating state law, federal law, or their own police department’s policy in their use of force against a civilian (April 2021)
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| category | Total |
|---|---|
| Strongly support | 64% |
| Somewhat support | 22% |
| Somewhat oppose | 3% |
| Strongly oppose | 2% |
| Don’t know | 9% |
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| Category | Democrat | Independent | Republican |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strongly support | 81% | 57% | 53% |
| Somewhat support | 10% | 15% | 33% |
| Somewhat oppose | 2% | 5% | 3% |
| Strongly oppose | 2% | 3% | 1% |
| Don’t know | 5% | 19% | 9% |
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| Category | Lean Democrat | Not very strong Democrat | Strong Democrat |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strongly support | 80% | 73% | 85% |
| Somewhat support | 14% | 14% | 6% |
| Somewhat oppose | 1% | 3% | 3% |
| Strongly oppose | 0% | 1% | 3% |
| Don’t know | 5% | 9% | 2% |
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| Category | Lean Republican | Not very strong Republican | Strong Republican |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strongly support | 53% | 53% | 53% |
| Somewhat support | 33% | 27% | 36% |
| Somewhat oppose | 3% | 7% | 2% |
| Strongly oppose | 2% | 0% | 1% |
| Don’t know | 9% | 13% | 7% |
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| Category | Liberals | Moderates | Conservatives |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strongly support | 78% | 69% | 53% |
| Somewhat support | 12% | 11% | 34% |
| Somewhat oppose | 2% | 6% | 3% |
| Strongly oppose | 3% | 1% | 1% |
| Don’t know | 5% | 13% | 9% |
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| Category | Lean liberal | Somewhat liberal | Extremely liberal |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strongly support | 74% | 76% | 83% |
| Somewhat support | 16% | 14% | 6% |
| Somewhat oppose | 2% | 3% | 1% |
| Strongly oppose | 0% | 2% | 6% |
| Don’t know | 8% | 5% | 3% |
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| Category | Lean conservative | Somewhat conservative | Extremely conservative |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strongly support | 54% | 53% | 52% |
| Somewhat support | 40% | 28% | 37% |
| Somewhat oppose | 2% | 5% | 1% |
| Strongly oppose | 0% | 1% | 2% |
| Don’t know | 4% | 12% | 8% |
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| Category | White | Black | Hispanic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strongly support | 62% | 71% | 65% |
| Somewhat support | 26% | 11% | 16% |
| Somewhat oppose | 3% | 4% | 4% |
| Strongly oppose | 1% | 6% | 1% |
| Don’t know | 7% | 8% | 15% |
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| Category | Male | Female |
|---|---|---|
| Strongly support | 61% | 68% |
| Somewhat support | 24% | 20% |
| Somewhat oppose | 4% | 3% |
| Strongly oppose | 2% | 1% |
| Don’t know | 9% | 8% |
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| Category | Urban | Suburban | Rural |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strongly support | 74% | 61% | 60% |
| Somewhat support | 12% | 26% | 24% |
| Somewhat oppose | 4% | 2% | 6% |
| Strongly oppose | 1% | 2% | 2% |
| Don’t know | 9% | 9% | 8% |
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| Category | 18-29 | 30-44 | 45-64 | 65+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strongly support | 66% | 60% | 67% | 65% |
| Somewhat support | 13% | 24% | 22% | 26% |
| Somewhat oppose | 5% | 4% | 3% | 3% |
| Strongly oppose | 5% | 0% | 2% | 1% |
| Don’t know | 12% | 11% | 7% | 6% |
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| Category | No HS | High school graduate | Some college | 2-year | 4-year | Post-grad |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strongly support | 49% | 61% | 72% | 57% | 66% | 65% |
| Somewhat support | 36% | 25% | 15% | 24% | 21% | 25% |
| Somewhat oppose | 0% | 2% | 3% | 7% | 4% | 4% |
| Strongly oppose | 0% | 1% | 2% | 5% | 1% | 1% |
| Don’t know | 15% | 12% | 9% | 7% | 8% | 5% |
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| Category | Extremely important | Somewhat important | Not very important | Not at all important |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strongly support | 64% | 58% | 69% | 68% |
| Somewhat support | 24% | 25% | 21% | 15% |
| Somewhat oppose | 2% | 5% | 6% | 3% |
| Strongly oppose | 1% | 2% | 1% | 4% |
| Don’t know | 9% | 11% | 4% | 10% |
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| 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. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strongly support | 60% | 64% | 75% | 47% |
| Somewhat support | 27% | 24% | 14% | 19% |
| Somewhat oppose | 3% | 3% | 3% | 8% |
| Strongly oppose | 1% | 2% | 4% | 0% |
| Don’t know | 9% | 7% | 5% | 26% |
