DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: The case in Philadelphia has raised questions about whether police officers sometimes do go too far. For a look at how Americans feel about the men and women who patrol our nation's streets, we turn go to Gallup Poll editor-in-chief Frank Newport. Frank, good morning.</s>FRANK NEWPORT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, GALLUP POLL: Good morning, Daryn. In fact, police are held in pretty relatively high esteem by the American public. We can look at our confidence in institutions measure that we've been taking in Gallup for a number of years. We just updated them several weeks ago. Here's the top five institutions out of a large number that we tested. It's the military and then the church, with high confidence and then there it is, the police actually comes in third place out of this long list. Fifty-four percent of Americans, on our scale, say that they have confidence in the institution of the police. Actually, you can see here, above the Supreme Court and even above banks. Now it hasn't changed much over this decade. Rodney King, as you were just talking about, in that piece that was in 1991, we started measuring them in 1993 at 52 percent. It kind of went up, and now it's back down to that 54. But basically not a lot of change, over at least the last decade. One thing however, is true in all of our data, whenever we look at anything relating to the police, like profiling, confidence in the police, there is a significance racial disparity. Now we've broken down here whites versus non-whites, a 20 point gap, not surprising, what we usually find. But very, very significant, nonwhites in America today, have much less confidence in police than do whites, obviously germane to both Rodney King and the situation in Philadelphia. One last fact here, age is also a factor. We are finding in our most recent poll that younger people have significantly less confidence in the police than those who are gone along in years in American society, perhaps, an alarming finding. That's where the public stands on police. Back to you, Daryn, in Atlanta.</s>KAGAN: Frank, thank you very much.
Gallup Poll: African-Americans, Youth Lack Confidence in Police