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How safe the police make the respondent feel, asked identically in the 2020 and 2022 CES.
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: 39% answered “Somewhat safe” in CES: Whether police make you feel safe, 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: Whether police make you feel safe | Whether police make you feel safe Do the police make you feel...? Caveat: Same wording and scale as 2022; different survey year | identical | Mostly safe → Mostly safe; Somewhat safe → Somewhat safe; Somewhat unsafe → Somewhat unsafe; Mostly unsafe → Mostly unsafe |
| CES: Whether police make you feel safe | Whether police make you feel safe Do the police make you feel...? Caveat: Same wording and scale as 2020; different survey year | identical | Mostly safe → Mostly safe; Somewhat safe → Somewhat safe; Somewhat unsafe → Somewhat unsafe; Mostly unsafe → Mostly unsafe |