Minorities in Wisconsin say they feel safe around cops, an Aug. 31 Marquette University Law School poll reveals.
The school polled 803 registered Wisconsin voters concerning the civil unrest in Milwaukee, also asking about feelings towards law enforcement in the wake of recent violence.
Eighty-six percent of those polled said that they feel “mostly safe” with police in their community, while only 12 percent said that the police made them feel “mostly anxious.”
And a full 57 percent of Hispanics and blacks polled said that they felt safe around police, with only 37 percent saying that they felt “mostly anxious.”
Ninety percent of non-Hispanic whites said that the police made them feel safe, while 9 percent said they felt “mostly anxious.”
Concerning the recent riots in Milwaukee, 48 percent said that the unrest was mainly because of a lack of respect for the law, while 37 percent attributed the unrest to general anger at the lack of opportunities for black people over the past few decades.
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