{"id":160895,"date":"2015-06-22T17:37:38","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T17:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=160895"},"modified":"2015-06-22T17:38:14","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T17:38:14","slug":"confidence-us-police-lowest-22-years-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/confidence-us-police-lowest-22-years-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Confidence in US police lowest in 22 years: Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>Confidence in police in the United States has plummeted to the lowest level in 22 years, with only half of Americans expressing confidence in the institution, according to a new poll.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just 52 percent of Americans express &#8220;a great deal&#8221; or &#8220;quite a lot&#8221; of confidence in police, a Gallup poll released on Friday found.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, 16 percent of Americans say they have &#8220;very little&#8221; confidence in the police and 2 percent have &#8220;none&#8221;, while 30 percent have &#8220;some&#8221; confidence, 25 percent have &#8220;a great deal&#8221; and 27 percent \u201cquite a lot\u201d of confidence.<\/p>\n<p>The historically low confidence level in police matched the level seen in 1993, when Gallup first began measuring it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/06\/22\/417019\/Gallup-poll-police-Confidence\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confidence in police in the United States has plummeted to the lowest level in 22 years, with only half of Americans expressing confidence in the institution, according to a new poll. Just 52 percent of Americans express &#8220;a great deal&#8221; or &#8220;quite a lot&#8221; of confidence in police, a Gallup poll released on Friday found. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":160896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18,1616],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-160895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news","9":"category-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}