National Poll Report for IOG Sept 2014

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‣ A strong majority, 81.4%, considered an identification requirement for voting was reasonable. ‣ Instances where an identification requirement was seen as least reasonable included: buying an M-rated video (40.3%), wearing ID at work (38.8%), adopting a pet (32.3%) and holding a protest or rally (21.8%). ‣ In a follow-up question specific to voting, a large majority (80.3%) indicated they strongly (58.9%) or somewhat (21.3%) supported a voter identification requirement. ‣ Under one-quarter said taxpayer dollars should be used to pay for transportation and childcare to help those without secure government identification. ‣ Just over one-half of Americans surveyed, 51.8% indicated they believed that voter fraud in the country is either very serious (18.6%) or somewhat serious (33.2%). ‣ Under half of all those surveyed, 47.2%, trusted the reliability of today’s identification measures given counterfeiting that occurs. ON CROSS TABULATIONS… Cross tabulations of data provide a view of the issues covered within the survey (core questions) by the various demographics collected such as age, race, ethnicity, education, rural/suburban/urban, gender, with/without children, marital status, income and political party inclination. Readers are encouraged to review the nine crosstab tables held within the appendix to this report. The following are some observations based on a review of these cross tabulations. Age Generally, younger respondents (18-39) feel less safe in their neighborhoods and communities during both day and night than their older peers. Younger respondents are significantly less likely to provide positive ratings (57.4%) for local police than those 40-64 years of age (73.0%) and those 65+ (80.9%). The same holds true for community police departments, the State Police and TSA. Institute of Government Polling Center Page 10
Younger respondents are significantly less supportive (46.4%) than 40-64 and 65+ peers of “Stop and Frisk” – 62.4% and 70.9% respectively. Younger respondents are similarly less supportive of other policing strategies such as community policing, foot patrols and providing local police departments with used military weaponry. Older respondents, 65+, are nearly twice as likely to report trusting their local police, police departments and the judicial system as those 18-39 years of age. Younger respondents are three and four times as likely to report being verbally abused and profiled by police than those 65+ and significantly more likely than those aged 40-64. Those 40-64 and 65+ were significantly more likely, 84.6% and 81.4% respectively, to suggest they supported voter ID laws than younger (18-39) respondents at 70.5%. Race/Ethnicity Hispanics (61.4%) were less likely to report feeling safe downtown at night than either whites (73.4%) or African-Americans (71.1%). Whites were more likely (38.4%) to report knowing a police officer than African- American respondents (29.8%). On rating local police, community police departments, the State Police, and TSA, African-Americans provided significantly lower positive ratings than whites or Hispanics surveyed. On rating local police, the positive ratings among Hispanics, whites and African-Americans was 65.6%, 79.3% and 49.0% respectively, for example. While “Stop and Frisk” was supported by 68.1% of whites surveyed, just 36.8% of African-Americans supported the same. Among Hispanics the percent was 56.4%. Further, African-Americans were much less likely to support (38.6%) the transfer of used military weapons to local police departments than whites (63.6%) or Hispanics (55.7%). Trust, overall, for officers, police departments and the judicial system was significantly stronger among whites and Hispanics than African-Americans. For the judicial system, trust was recorded for Hispanics, whites and African-Americans at 48.6%, 61.9%, and 38.6% respectively. Even on a composite level (55.6%) trust in the judicial system in the U.S. would be considered poor. Institute of Government Polling Center Page 11
Page 1 and 2: NATIONAL POLL REPORT THE POLLING CE
Page 3 and 4: TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 SECTION Introdu
Page 5 and 6: 2 METHODOLOGY Using a quantitative
Page 7 and 8: 3 HIGHLIGHTS ON LAW ENFORCEMENT…
Page 9: ‣ There exists varying levels of
Page 13 and 14: Party Affiliation or Inclination Re
Page 15 and 16: 4 SUMMARY OF FINDINGS Readers are r
Page 17 and 18: Ratings Law enforcement organizatio
Page 19 and 20: Trust and Confidence Survey partici
Page 21 and 22: Issue Statements The survey include
Page 23 and 24: Over three-quarters of Americans wh
Page 25 and 26: Firearm Statements / Issues A numbe
Page 27 and 28: Identification History Nearly all r
Page 29 and 30: DEMOGRAPHICS Rural, Suburban or Urb
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