GenForward Poll: Young black adults less trusting of police

WASHINGTON – Young African-American adults are much more likely than other young Americans to say they are arrested or harassed by police.

This is despite white, Hispanic and Asian-American adults saying they encounter police at about the same rate, a new GenForward poll says.

Twenty-eight per cent of blacks 18-30 say they have been arrested, 24 per cent say they have been harassed by police, and 53 per cent say they know someone who has been.

Twenty-two per cent of Hispanics, 15 per cent of whites and 10 per cent of Asians-Americans say they have been arrested. Sixteen per cent of Hispanics, 8 per cent of whites and 4 per cent of Asian-Americans say they’ve experienced harassment.

About three-quarters of young whites and African-Americans say they’ve been stopped, as do 7 in 10 Latinos. About 6 in 10 Asian-Americans say so.