18 June 2017, 06:01 GMT
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — In June 2015, the US public's confidence in police dropped to a two-decade low of 52 percent, the Gallup poll showed. This figure reflected the sentiment felt about the numerous deaths of African-Americans and women at the hands of police officers across the United States, the poll continued.
Despite the improvement in 2017, the poll indicated that confidence remains lowest among African-Americans, with only 30 percent saying that they "have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in the police" from 2015-2017.
Police shooting incidents triggered a wave of mass protests, including the Black Lives Matter movement, throughout the country between 2015 and 2016.
