Title: How black, white Americans differ in views of criminal justice system | Pew Research Center
Headings: From police to parole, black and white Americans differ widely in their views of criminal justice system
From police to parole, black and white Americans differ widely in their views of criminal justice system
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Content: How black, white Americans differ in views of criminal justice system | Pew Research Center
From police to parole, black and white Americans differ widely in their views of criminal justice system
By John Gramlich
Activists in New York City march in July 2016 in response to fatal shootings of two black men by police. ( Yana Paskova/Getty Images)
Black Americans are far more likely than whites to say the nation’s criminal justice system is racially biased and that its treatment of minorities is a serious national problem. In a recent Pew Research Center survey, around nine-in-ten black adults (87%) said blacks are generally treated less fairly by the criminal justice system than whites, a view shared by a much smaller majority of white adults (61%). And in a survey shortly before last year’s midterm elections, 79% of blacks – compared with 32% of whites – said the way racial and ethnic minorities are treated by the criminal justice system is a very big problem in the United States today. Racial differences in views of the criminal justice system are not limited to the perceived fairness of the system as a whole. Black and white adults also differ across a range of other criminal justice-related questions asked by the Center in recent years, on subjects ranging from crime and policing to the use of computer algorithms in parole decisions. Here’s an overview of these racial differences: Crime
Black adults in the U.S. consistently express more concern than white adults about crime. In last year’s preelection survey, three-quarters of blacks – compared with fewer than half of whites (46%) – said violent crime is a very big problem in the country today. And while 82% of blacks said gun violence is a very big problem in the U.S., just 47% of whites said the same.