Scott Rasmussen's Number of the Day for February 18, 2022
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February 18, 2022: Eighty percent (80%) of voters see police officers as generally good people doing a difficult job to the best of their ability. A Scott Rasmussen national survey found that view is shared by 85% of white voters, 72% of Hispanic voters, and 60% of black voters.[1]
Just 16% of all voters disagree with that assessment.[1]
The survey also found that 56% believe America’s biggest cities are being destroyed by prosecutors who refuse to follow the law.[1]
By a 53% to 35% margin, voters believe that America’s legal system cares more about criminals than victims.[1]
Methodology
The survey of 1,200 registered voters was conducted online by Scott Rasmussen on February 15-16, 2022. Fieldwork for the survey was conducted by RMG Research, Inc. Certain quotas were applied, and the sample was lightly weighted by geography, gender, age, race, education, internet usage, and political party to reasonably reflect the nation’s population of registered voters. Other variables were reviewed to ensure that the final sample is representative of that population.
The margin of sampling error for the full sample is +/- 2.8 percentage points.
Note: Neither Scott Rasmussen, ScottRasmussen.com, nor RMG Research, Inc. have any affiliation with Rasmussen Reports. While Scott Rasmussen founded that firm, he left nearly a decade ago and has had no involvement since that time.
Each weekday, Scott Rasmussen’s Number of the Day explores interesting and newsworthy topics at the intersection of culture, politics, and technology.
- February 17, 2022- 61 percent of voters believe public health officials followed the politics, not the science
- February 16, 2022- 59 percent of voters say it's time to put the pandemic behind us; return to normal life
- February 15, 2022- 40 percent of voters think the worst of the pandemic is behind us
- February 14, 2022- 54 percent of voters believe that more freedom leads to more equality
- February 11, 2022- 54 percent of voters say it’s important to have a black woman on the Supreme Court
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