We have a 25 percent reduction in rates of violent crime in 2025, per the US Attorney General and the U.S. DOJ's Bureau of Justice Statistics, using the National Crime Victimization Survey.
The FBI reports a 9 percent reduction in violent crime in 2025 based on crimes reported to law enforcement.
Rates of property crime are down for both indexes.
Gallup and additional data continue to document high rates of U.S. citizens' fear or concern about crime.
We have pundits telling us that we have entered a new era of plummeting crime and that America has never been safer.
I'm not sure that most Americans are buying those observations.
The Majority of American Voters Are Expressing High Levels Of Concern About Crime
Yes, the economy, the war with Iran, and gas prices rank higher than crime, but 61 percent of American voters state that their concerns about crime are extremely or very important.
Sixty-seven percent of voters express high levels of concern about immigration. Many Americans connect the immigration issue with crime.
The measurement Gallup uses is "Extremely Important" or "Very Important." Gallup and other polling companies often use a moderate level of concern in their polls, thus indicating that American concern about crime exceeds the levels mentioned above.
There are criminologists and crime writers suggesting that concern or fear of crime is far more important to most Americans than declining crime statistics.
These results are based on registered voters interviewed in an Oct. 1-19 Gallup survey, which asked Americans to say whether each issue is extremely important, very important, moderately important or not that important to their vote for Congress this year. Majorities of voters rate every issue except climate change as at least very important.
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