Poll: Bostonians trust police, fear discrimination
A poll of Boston residents taken this week revealed that 73 percent view police favorably, but one in three African-American residents does not believe that officers treat minorities fairly, reports The Boston Globe.
The poll was a live landline and cellphone survey of 301 Boston residents taken by the MassINC Polling Group and commissioned by The Boston Foundation as part of a town hall forum on policing that aired Thursday night on WCVB-TV.
The poll found that nearly half of the city’s residents believe Boston faces the same problems as other cities when it comes to race relations and police.
“That’s telling,” Michael A. Curry, president of the Boston branch of the NAACP, told the Globe. “We shouldn’t be shocked that tensions exist because we’re not immune to that. It’s a reality check.”
Read the full story in the Globe.
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