The present research explores the relationship between political conservatism and confidence in the police in the U.S. relative to the other industrialized societies. Data are from 17 national samples (N = 16,309) in the World Values Surveys. Controlling for sociodemographic variables, it is found that the higher the political conservatism the higher the confidence in the police. Further, compared with other members of the common law family, the U.S. public confidence is not high, but compared with continental western European countries and Japan, the U.S. public confidence in the police fares well.
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