In 2026, what share of Americans told Gallup they have confidence in the police?
Answer45%
That combines Americans saying they have a 'great deal' (22%) or 'quite a lot' (23%) of confidence in police.
Source: Gallup news.gallup.com
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Adjusted for inflation, US cities spent about $82 per person on policing in 1951. By 2016, that had risen to about how much?
Answer$286 per person
That's more than triple the inflation-adjusted per-person policing spend from the mid-20th century.
Source: Wikipedia: Law enforcement in the United States (2016) en.wikipedia.org
Of the 13.1 million arrests the FBI recorded in 2010, about what share were of men?
Answer74.5%
Men have consistently made up roughly three-quarters of arrests in US crime statistics.
Source: FBI, cited in Wikipedia: Law enforcement in the United States (2010) en.wikipedia.org
That same 2008 census counted how many county sheriff's offices across the US?
Answer3,063 sheriff's offices
Sheriff's offices typically serve entire counties, unlike city police departments that cover just one municipality.
Source: US DOJ Bureau of Justice Statistics, cited in Wikipedia: Law enforcement in the United States (2008) en.wikipedia.org
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