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General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org
Question 232. Are there any situations you can imagine in which you would approve of a policeman striking an adult male citizen?
For further details see the official GSS documentation.
Counts by year:
| year | iap | don't know | no | no answer | yes | skipped on web | Total |
| 1972 | 1613 | - | - | - | - | - | 1613 |
| 1973 | - | 33 | 378 | 2 | 1091 | - | 1504 |
| 1974 | 1484 | - | - | - | - | - | 1484 |
| 1975 | - | 52 | 343 | 15 | 1080 | - | 1490 |
| 1976 | - | 57 | 300 | 4 | 1138 | - | 1499 |
| 1977 | 1530 | - | - | - | - | - | 1530 |
| 1978 | - | 52 | 308 | 5 | 1167 | - | 1532 |
| 1980 | - | 45 | 351 | 11 | 1061 | - | 1468 |
| 1982 | 1860 | - | - | - | - | - | 1860 |
| 1983 | - | 44 | 310 | 19 | 1226 | - | 1599 |
| 1984 | - | 37 | 414 | 7 | 1015 | - | 1473 |
| 1985 | 1534 | - | - | - | - | - | 1534 |
| 1986 | - | 41 | 368 | 17 | 1044 | - | 1470 |
| 1987 | - | 91 | 467 | 23 | 1238 | - | 1819 |
| 1988 | 484 | 44 | 224 | 10 | 719 | - | 1481 |
| 1989 | 502 | 60 | 240 | 17 | 718 | - | 1537 |
| 1990 | 473 | 48 | 222 | 12 | 617 | - | 1372 |
| 1991 | 500 | 43 | 305 | 8 | 661 | - | 1517 |
| 1993 | 549 | 49 | 234 | 4 | 770 | - | 1606 |
| 1994 | 981 | 61 | 517 | 13 | 1420 | - | 2992 |
| 1996 | 979 | 84 | 549 | 8 | 1284 | - | 2904 |
| 1998 | 921 | 82 | 574 | 9 | 1246 | - | 2832 |
| 2000 | 921 | 65 | 613 | 17 | 1201 | - | 2817 |
| 2002 | 1853 | 63 | 250 | - | 599 | - | 2765 |
| 2004 | 1936 | 52 | 242 | 4 | 578 | - | 2812 |
| 2006 | 2521 | 116 | 632 | 1 | 1240 | - | 4510 |
| 2008 | 1343 | 39 | 197 | 1 | 443 | - | 2023 |
| 2010 | 667 | 76 | 423 | 3 | 875 | - | 2044 |
| 2012 | 636 | 58 | 399 | 1 | 880 | - | 1974 |
| 2014 | 851 | 77 | 546 | 1 | 1063 | - | 2538 |
| 2016 | 911 | 75 | 584 | 5 | 1292 | - | 2867 |
| 2018 | 785 | 78 | 539 | 4 | 942 | - | 2348 |
| 2021 | 2719 | 2 | 410 | 1 | 890 | 10 | 4032 |
| 2022 | 2353 | 17 | 406 | 3 | 761 | 4 | 3544 |
| Total | 30906 | 1641 | 11345 | 225 | 28259 | 14 | 72390 |
1 yes
2 no
NA(d) don't know
NA(i) iap
NA(j) I don't have a job
NA(m) dk, na, iap
NA(n) no answer
NA(p) not imputable
NA(q) not imputable
NA(r) refused
NA(s) skipped on web
NA(u) uncodeable
NA(x) not available in this release
NA(y) not available in this year
NA(z) see codebook