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·Black, H~spanic trust ·in police declines
By Beth Laski
Daily News Staff Writer
Brewer, director of the UCLA
Institute for Social Science Re­
'search.
Telephone interviews of Los
Angeles County residents
Confidence in Los Angeles
police dropped sharply among
blacks and Hispanics following · showed that those who had exthe
videotaped beating of an pressed "a lot" of confidence in
unarmed black motorist by of- .local police dropped from 44
ficers in the Foothill Division, percent before the beating to 39
according to a UCLA survey percent afterward, Brewer said.
released Tuesday.
The number of black and
However, the March 4 beat- Hispanic respondents expressing
of Rodney King did not ing "a lot" of confidence in lochange
the attitudes of white cal police fell from 38.1 percent
Southern Californians toward before the beating to 28.2 perpolice,
according to the 1991 cent afterward.
UCLA Southern California So- The number of whites who
cial Survey.
said they had "a lot" of confi-
1 "The study suggests that Los dence in police stayed at a con-
Angeles isn't the same 'home for stant 47.6 percent before and
everyone," said Marilynn after the incident. '
DAILY NEWS
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Title:
BLACK, HISPANIC TRUST
IN POLICE DECLINES
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