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Citizen poll results: Do you support a human rights inquiry into police use of force in BC?

The poll ran from January 30 to February 9. Of the 794 votes, we can determine that 438 are from within the community.
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Prince George RCMP detachment on Victoria Street.

Prince George Citizen polled 794 Prince George Citizen readers and asked the question: Do you support a human rights inquiry into police use of force in BC?

The poll ran from January 30 to February 9. Of the 794 votes, we can determine that 438 are from within the community. The full results are as follows:

Yes, so overdue 17.12% local, 19.27% total    
Mostly yes, but will it actually lead to change? 15.75% local, 14.48% total    
Not sure 6.16% local, 6.05% total    
Mostly no, just another finger pointing exercise 17.35% local, 19.27% total    
No, police officers need more authority to do their jobs, not less 43.38% local, 40.93% total    
  Local   Total

Results are based on an online study of adult Prince George Citizen readers that are located in Prince George. The margin of error - which measures sample variability - is +/- 3.46%, 19 times out of 20.

Prince George Citizen uses a variety of techniques to capture data, detect and prevent fraudulent votes, detect and prevent robots, and filter out non-local and duplicate votes.