Wide Racial Divides Persist over Fair Treatment of Blacks % saying blacks in their community are treated less fairly than whites In dealing with the police In the courts In stores or restaurants
Seven-in-ten blacks said blacks were treated less fairly in dealings with the police, versus 37% of whites who said so; almost as many blacks (68%) said blacks were treated less fairly in the courts. About half (54%) of blacks, versus 16% of whites, said blacks were treated less fairly at the workplace, a share that’s been rising since the late 1990s. And just over half (51%) of blacks, compared with 15% of whites, said their local public schools treated blacks less fairly.
Wide Racial Divides Persist over  | Fair Treatment of Blacks  | % saying blacks in their community are treated less  | fairly than whites  | In dealing with the police  | Whites  | 70  | Blacks  | Hispanics  | In the courts  | Whites  | Blacks  | 68  | 40  | Hispanics  | On the job or at work  | Whites  | 16  | Blacks  | 54  | 40  | Hispanics  | In stores or restaurants  | Whites  | 16  | Blacks  | 35  | Hispanics  | In local publicschools  | Whites  | 15  | Blacks  | 51  | Hispanics  | In getting health care  | Whites  | 14  | Blacks  | Hispanics  | 36  | When voting in elections  | Whites  | 13  | 48  | Blacks  | 30  | Hispanics  | Note: Blacks and whites include only non-Hispanics  | Hispanics Note: Blacks n=376; may and be for whites of Hispanics any include race For n=218, only whites non-Hispanics n=1,471; for  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER  | Q13 