CIRCLE has released a detailed report on young people’s trust in various institutions, broken down by demographics and partisanship. They have also published an array of responses to their data by young leaders.

I recommend the whole product. As a teaser, I’m sharing one graph with this post. Note that the police are the second-most trusted institution, below “peers and neighbors” but above nonprofit organizations. White youth trust police at about twice the rate of Black youth.

Also interesting is the extremely low level of trust for social media and technology companies, which turns out to be driven by white youth. (Black youth trust social media somewhat more.)

Whether people should trust these institutions is a different question that is worth some reflection. CIRCLE shows that higher trust is related to voter turnout, so one drawback of deep distrust can be disengagement.

See also: CIRCLE report: How Does Gen Z Really Feel about Democracy? (April 9); to restore trust in schools and media, engage people in civic life