Broad support for several policing policies, including making it a crime for police to use chokeholds % who each of the following proposals about policing in this country Strongly Somewhat Somewhat favor deadly force
Several other policing proposals draw broad support as well: 90% of the public favors a federal government database to track officers accused of misconduct. Three-quarters support giving civilian oversight boards the power to investigate and discipline officers accused of misconduct, and similar shares favor requiring officers to live in the places they police and outlawing police use of chokeholds or strangleholds.
Broad support for several policing policies, including  | making it a crime for police to use chokeholds  | % who  | each of the following proposals about policing in this country  | Strongly Somewhat Somewhat favor  | oppose  | oppose  | Strongly favor  | NET  | Require police to be trained  | NET 73 22  | 71  | 92  | in nonviolent alternatives to  | deadly force  | Create a federal government  | database to track officers  | 10 3  | 90  | 27  | 62  | accused of misconduct  | Give civilian oversight boards  | power to investigate and discipline  | 24 9 15  | 32  | 43  | 75  | officers accused of inappropriate  | use of force or other misconduct  | Require officers to live  | 25 18  | 74  | 39  | 35  | in the places they police  | Make it a crime for police to use  | 74  | 25 8 17  | 25  | 49  | chokeholds or strangleholds  | Note: No answer responses not shown.  | Source: Survey of U.S. adults conducted June 16-22, 2020.  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 