Support for requiring police officers to wear body cameras that record all of their on-duty activities, asked identically in 2020 and 2022.
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Latest: 91% answered “Support” in CES: Require police body cameras, 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: Require police to wear body cameras | Require police to wear body cameras Do you support or oppose each of the following proposals? [Require police officers to wear body cameras that record all of their activities while on duty.] Caveat: Wording truncated in the 2020 record, but the item appears the same as 2022. | identical | Support → Support; Oppose → Oppose |
| CES: Require police body cameras | Require police body cameras Do you support or oppose each of the following proposals? [Require police officers to wear body cameras that record all of their activities while on duty] Caveat: Reference wording; binary support/oppose with no middle option. | identical | Support → Support; Oppose → Oppose |