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Support for decreasing the number of police on the street by 10 percent and increasing funding for other public services, asked in the CES in 2020, 2022, and 2024 with the same wording; the 2024 item sat in the gun regulation battery.
AI-matched An AI model grouped these questions and mapped their answers onto shared categories, and a second AI review checked and corrected the grouping and mapping. No person has checked it: compare the question wordings and the answer mapping below before reading the lines against each other.
Latest: 27% answered “Support” in CES: Decrease police by 10 percent, fund other services, 2024.
Shares of people whose answer maps onto these categories (non-answers and answers outside the scale are left out), because surveys differ in whether they offer “don’t know.” Each point is one survey wave at the middle of its field period. Lines from different surveys are never spliced together.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| CES: Decrease police by 10 percent and fund other services | Decrease police by 10 percent and fund other services Do you support or oppose each of the following proposals? [Decrease the number of police on the street by 10 percent, and increase funding for other public services] Caveat: Reference wording; no mention of funding for other services | identical | Support → Support; Oppose → Oppose |
| CES: Decrease police by 10 percent and fund other services | Decrease police by 10 percent and fund other services Do you support or oppose each of the following proposals? [Decrease the number of police on the street by 10 percent, and increase funding for other public services] Caveat: Adds 'increase funding for other public services' to the proposal | equivalent | Support → Support; Oppose → Oppose |
| CES: Decrease police by 10 percent, fund other services | Decrease police by 10 percent, fund other services On the issue of gun regulation, do you support or oppose a proposal that would do the following? [Decrease the number of police on the street by 10 percent, and increase funding for other public services] Caveat: Adds funding for other services; asked in a gun regulation context | similar | Support → Support; Oppose → Oppose |