On Police Treatment, Asian-Americans Show Ethnic, Generational Splits
Younger Asian-Americans are more likely to cite unequal treatment by police than older generations, according to a survey of Asian-American voters who are also split on the issue along ethnic lines.
by Hansi Lo Wang
Apr 18, 2017
1 minute
Last November, exit pollsters asked almost 14,000 Asian-American voters for the first time, "Do you think that police departments treat racial and ethnic groups equally?"
It was one of four questions the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Other topics included gun control, LGBT discrimination and immigration, but the issue of police accountability resulted in the most divisive answers.
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