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Support for ending the Defense Department program that sends surplus military equipment to police, asked identically in 2020 and 2022.
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: 44% answered “Support” in CES: End surplus military equipment program for police, 2022.
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: End program sending surplus military gear to police | End program sending surplus military gear to police Do you support or oppose each of the following proposals? [End the Department of Defense program that sends surplus military weapons and equipment to police departments.] Caveat: Wording truncated in the archive text, but the same item as 2022. | identical | Support → Support; Oppose → Oppose |
| CES: End surplus military equipment program for police | End surplus military equipment program for police Do you support or oppose each of the following proposals? [End the Department of Defense program that sends surplus military weapons and equipment to police departments] Caveat: Full wording; asked in a different year (2022). | identical | Support → Support; Oppose → Oppose |