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Questions - Justice Department - March 2-3, 2015

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National Survey of 1,000 Likely Voters
Conducted March 2-3, 2015
By Rasmussen Reports

 

1* Do you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, somewhat unfavorable or very unfavorable impression of the U.S. Justice Department?

 

2* When the Justice Department decides to investigate a local crime independent of the local police, is it more concerned with making sure justice is done or is it more concerned with politics?


3* Do you regard the U.S. Justice Department more as a protector of the legal rights of most Americans or a threat to those legal rights?

 

4* Is it too hard or too easy now for the Justice Department to charge people with civil rights violations? Or is the legal standard about right?

 

5* Which is a bigger problem in America today – police discrimination against minorities or the level of crime in low-income inner city communities?

 

NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence