Monitoring the Future study, which surveys about fifty thousand high school seniors every year. What’s unique about these data is that the surveys are administered in schools and are done across the country in the forty-eight contiguous United States. Perhaps more importantly, they are completely anonymous, so these teenagers can feel comfortable telling the truth regarding how they feel about law enforcement.18 Using data from over a decade, Adam and his colleagues examined whether youths’ perceptions of law enforcement have changed in recent years. What we found was depressing but not
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