45%
2026 (latest)
CONFIDENCE IN THE POLICE
percent with a great deal or quite a lot of confidence · 1993–2026 · higher is better · Gallup, Confidence in Institutions
52%
1993
64%
high · 2004
43%
low · 2023
−7.0 pts
since 1993
┊ dashed lines mark 2001 Dot-com bust & 9/11 · 2008 Global financial crisis · 2020 COVID-19 pandemic
Method & caveats. Gallup's annual June Confidence in Institutions poll (telephone, ~1,000 adults): "Please tell me how much confidence you, yourself, have in each one — a great deal, quite a lot, some, or very little?" Value is great deal + quite a lot. Asked every year since 1993 and irregularly before; where Gallup polled twice in one year (1991) the later poll is kept.
Sources
Every value on this page is read from the publisher below. Current and historical source documents:
- https://news.gallup.com/poll/1597/confidence-institutions.aspx
- https://github.com/danielmiessler/substrate/tree/main/Data/US-Societal-Health
Data
| Year | Confidence in the Police | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 45% | +0.0 pts |
| 2025 | 45% | −6.0 pts |
| 2024 | 51% | +8.0 pts |
| 2023 | 43% | −2.0 pts |
| 2022 | 45% | −6.0 pts |
| 2021 | 51% | +3.0 pts |
| 2020 | 48% | −5.0 pts |
| 2019 | 53% | −1.0 pts |
| 2018 | 54% | −3.0 pts |
| 2017 | 57% | +1.0 pts |
| 2016 | 56% | +4.0 pts |
| 2015 | 52% | −1.0 pts |
| 2014 | 53% | −4.0 pts |
| 2013 | 57% | +1.0 pts |
| 2012 | 56% | +0.0 pts |
| 2011 | 56% | −3.0 pts |
| 2010 | 59% | +0.0 pts |
| 2009 | 59% | +1.0 pts |
| 2008 | 58% | +4.0 pts |
| 2007 | 54% | −4.0 pts |
| 2006 | 58% | −5.0 pts |
| 2005 | 63% | −1.0 pts |
| 2004 | 64% | +3.0 pts |
| 2003 | 61% | +2.0 pts |
| 2002 | 59% | +2.0 pts |
| 2001 | 57% | +3.0 pts |
| 2000 | 54% | −3.0 pts |
| 1999 | 57% | −1.0 pts |
| 1998 | 58% | −1.0 pts |
| 1997 | 59% | −1.0 pts |
| 1996 | 60% | +2.0 pts |
| 1995 | 58% | +4.0 pts |
| 1994 | 54% | +2.0 pts |
| 1993 | 52% | — |
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