Loading…
Support for increasing the number of police on the street by 10 percent, even if it means fewer funds for other public services; the 2024 item was asked within a 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: 57% answered “Support” in CES: Increase police on the street by 10 percent, 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: Increase police on the street by 10 percent | Increase police on the street by 10 percent Do you support or oppose each of the following proposals? [Increase the number of police on the street by 10 percent, even if it means fewer funds for other public services.] Caveat: Reference wording; no trade-off mentioned | identical | Support → Support; Oppose → Oppose |
| CES: Increase police on the street by 10 percent | Increase police on the street by 10 percent Do you support or oppose each of the following proposals? [Increase the number of police on the street by 10 percent, even if it means fewer funds for other public services] Caveat: Adds 'even if fewer funds for other services' trade-off; likely lowers support | equivalent | Support → Support; Oppose → Oppose |
| CES: Increase police on the street by 10 percent | Increase police on the street by 10 percent On the issue of gun regulation, do you support or oppose a proposal that would do the following? [Increase the number of police on the street by 10 percent, even if it means fewer funds for other public services] Caveat: Funding trade-off added and asked in gun regulation context | similar | Support → Support; Oppose → Oppose |