Should authorities have right to search ppl in the street

stoprndm

Source

General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org

Details

Question Suppose the government suspected that a terrorist act was about to happen. Do you think the authorities should have the right to… C. Stop and search people in the street at random?

Values

• 1 definitely should have right

• 2 probably should have right

• 3 probably should not have right

• 4 definitely should not have right

• NA(d) can't choose / 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(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

Question Years and Ballots

year	ballots	availability
2006	D/-	partial
2016	A/B	partial

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See also

Other ISSP Role of Gov't: exploit, fewtrsty, givinffor, givinfusa, hlpinflu, polsfair, tapphone, wotrial, youinflu