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Survey data on public perceptions of honesty and ethics of police officers and lawyers
Laws related to the legality of semi-automatic guns
Recently released by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention: Juvenile Arrests 2009.
Police officers are rated more than two times higher than lawyers in a recent survey of the honesty and ethical standards of various professions.
In a recent Gallup Poll, just 32% of those surveyed reported that they beleive the death penalty acts as a deterrent to committing murder; this marks a substanial decrease from the mid-1980s when almost two-thirds reported that they beleive the death penalty is a deterrent.
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