http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/26/1366982/-Large-Majorites-of-Whites-Say-Blacks-Treated-Equally-by-Police-etc-but-Objective-Data-Shows-Bias
In a recent poll, while 70% of African-Americans believe blacks are treated less fairly by the police, only 37% of whites feel the same way.
Obviously, the rash of media coverage of police killings of
African-Americans has had little if any effect in how the majority of
white Americans view police mistreatment of minority populations. This
mirrors results in other areas in which whites do perceive
discrimination against blacks: For example, 73% of whites do not believe
blacks are treated unequally by the courts; 84% think they are treated
equally in the workplace; and 87% of whites do not think
African-Americans are discriminated against when it comes to voting.
Obviously, most whites, a large majority whites in every case, do not
subjectively believe that any bias against African-Americans exists in
our society. A large majority of people of color just as obviously
subjectively perceive that our society does treat people differently
based on the color of their skin, rather than the content of their
character, to paraphrase Martin Luther King, Jr. And this perception
holds consistently across different regions of the country:
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