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Public Opinion Quarterly Advance Access originally published online on March 18, 2009
Public Opinion Quarterly 2009 73(1):199-220; doi:10.1093/poq/nfp015
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The Polls—Trends Confidence in Law Enforcement

Greg M. Shaw and Kathryn E. Brannan

Address correspondence to Greg Shaw; e-mail: gshaw{at}iwu.edu.

Public confidence in law enforcement remains high but showed some signs of slight decline from the late 1990s to the middle of this decade. Confidence in law enforcement fluctuated some in apparent response to the terrorist attacks of September 11 and has not been particularly strong when viewed through a racial lens. In keeping with falling crime rates through the first part of this decade followed by a recent rise, the percentage of the public that believed anticrime spending to be too little declined slightly from the late 1990s to 2005 but rebounded in 2006.

GREG M. SHAW AND KATHRYN E. BRANNAN are with the Department of Political Science, Illinois Wesleyan University, 303 East Emerson Street, Bloomington, IL 61701, USA. The authors thank Brett Strand, Megan Kokontis, Chelsea Schafer, Leah Strege, and Bailee Soltys for their assistance, and Nancy Mathiowetz, Jamie Druckman, and an anonymous reviewer for helpful comments. Thanks also to Gary Langer at ABC News, Maura Strausberg at Gallup, Sarah Dutton at CBS, and Jon Rochkind at Public Agenda for assistance with documentation.


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