Divide between blacks and whites on police runs deep

In discussions with the US police and ethnic issues, there is a constant how blacks and whites think about this issue.

In the opinion poll of the Pew Research Center, blacks and whites have consistently found that they are totally different views of every aspect of race, from trust in police to progress in racial equality. For example, according to a survey conducted by Martin Luther King Jr. in March of Washington's 50th anniversary, 48% of whites said that they made significant progress since 1963, compared to 32% of blacks.

However, the view on how the police are coping with minority issues is particularly relaxed. In a survey shortly after Ferguson's shooting, 80% of blacks said that the incident caused important race related issues, whites accounted for 37%.

This survey is in agreement with a survey conducted one week later that the blacks showed much lower confidence than confidence that they handled two games equally than local white police Caucasians. Approximately one-seventh of whites (71%) showed quite confidence that the local police handled black and white equal, but only 36% black. These differences are long-term. When problems were raised in 2009 and 2007, the gap was about the same.

In public opinion polls, there are differences in the performance indicators of other police between blacks and whites. Seven out of 10 black people said police officials nationwide demanded police officers to take responsibility for cheating and white people accounted for 27%. Approximately 6/6 (57%) of blacks think that police use is poor when exercising adequate military force in each case compared to 23% of whites holding this view I will.

A similar situation is also drawn in a public opinion poll by recent presses including the ABC News / Washington Post poll and the McLaught - Marister opinion poll conducted in December. According to McClatchy - Marist 's survey, 76% of blacks and 33% of whites think that there is a problem with the judicial system on law enforcement agencies and ethnic issues. Also, surveys show that half of whites are merely 22% of African Americans, whereas they have great confidence in the police to gain the trust of the people they serve.

According to a survey by the Pew Research Center, there is still a pessimistic feeling about whether things improve. Approximately half of blacks (52%) predicted that the relationship between local police and ethnic minority will deteriorate next year, 31% said there is no change, only 16% expecting improvement . The relationship between Caucasians (34%) is getting smaller and smaller, but only 21% are expecting improvement, 43% think that the situation will not change.

The biggest cause of racial tension is also the oldest, the difference between white and black, which is shown in economic differences and law enforcement views, is very different. Most white people trust the police, but only 30% of African Americans have this trust. I feel that the black people are still facing discrimination, but I think most white people are not. However, other groups are fully integrated into American society more than expected. Asian Americans who have been faced with strong prejudice are more likely to marry and live in a mixed-race ethnic community than any other group. Their average household income is also higher than that of the white family.

As PRRI's Robert Jones wrote in the Atlantic, American social circles have influenced events in Florida State Ferguson in the past few weeks. Poll shows a deep disagreement between blacks and whites, and reactions from Ferguson's racial role to protesters and police are appropriate. The numbers above give us insight into why so many white people are dissatisfied with protesters' response to Michael Brown's shooting. The history between many black communities and the police forces they serve is characterized by a long, complex, often violent, extreme power imbalance. But as Robert Jones pointed out, most Caucasians are not "socially positioned" to understand this history - the reason they know that a few people have experienced this history Just by.