Fully three‐quarters of Americans support the Equal Act. After being told that “under the current criminal justice system, someone who sells crack cocaine is punished the same as someone who sells 18 times more powder cocaine,” an overwhelming majority of voters support the proposal being debated in Washington that “would reform the criminal justice system to treat crack cocaine the same as powder cocaine.”

Conducted between January 15 and January 18, 2022, a poll of 500 likely voters in Missouri found broad bipartisan agreement that the state’s criminal justice system needs reform. The sentiment was shared across key demographic groups, including majorities of Republicans (62%), households which include victims of violent crime (79%), as well as law enforcement households (70%).