Figure 2 Confidence in Equal Treatment by Police, How confident are you that police officers in your community will Treat Hispanics fairly Treat blacks and whites equally Note: Responses of Don't know" and "Refused not shown Whites
Six-in-ten (61%) Hispanics say they have a great deal or a fair amount of confidence that the police in their local communities will do a good job enforcing the law, compared with 78% of whites and 55% of blacks. Just under half (46%) of Hispanics say they have confidence that police officers will not use excessive force on suspects, compared with 73% of whites and 38% of blacks. Similarly, just under half of Hispanics say they are confident that police officers will treat Hispanics fairly (45%) and that courts will treat Hispanics fairly (49%). In comparison, 74% of whites and 37% of blacks say they have confidence that the police will treat blacks and whites equally (Pew Social & Demographic Trends, 2007).
Figure 2  | Confidence in Equal Treatment by Police,  | by Race and Ethnicity  | (94. saying "A great deal" or "A fair amount")  | How confident are you that police  | officers in your community will  | Treat Hispanics fairly  | Hispanics  | 45  | Treat blacks and whites equally  | Whites  | 74  | Blacks  | 37  | Note: Responses of Don't know" and "Refused not shown Whites  | include only non Hispanic whites Blacks include only non Hispanic  | blacks  | Source: Hispanic results from Pew Hispanic Center 2008 National  | Survey of Latinos: white and black results from Pew Social &  | Demographic Trends "Blacks See Growing Values Gap Between  | Poor Demographic and Middle Class; Optimism about Growing Black Progress Gap Declines,"  | November 2007 