Americans less likely to say crime is a national problem: Gallup [thehill.com]

Alicia Doktor 11/9/1812:00 PM

The percentage of Americans who say that crime is an extremely or very serious problem in the U.S. dropped to under 50 percent in 2018, the first time respondents have been below that threshold since 2005, according to a Gallup poll released Wednesday.

Forty-nine percent of those surveyed said that the problem of crime was extremely or very serious, a drop of 10 percent from last year and one of the sharpest decreases on record.

The percentage of Americans who say crime is increasing nationwide remains high at 60 percent, but that number is an 8-point drop from 2017 and the lowest percentage since 2004, according to Gallup's survey.

[For more on this story by JOHN BOWDEN, go to https://thehill.com/blogs/blog...ional-problem-gallup]

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