Republicans are more likely to believe crime is a significant problem in large cities, with 96% answering as much. Meanwhile, 68% of Democrats think so.<\/p>\n

When respondents were asked to think more locally, crime wasn’t as big an issue. Less than 25% said crime was a major problem in their community, and 20% said the same in their small towns or rural areas.<\/p>\n

<\/iframe><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\">!function(){\"use strict\";window.addEventListener(\"message\",function(a){if(void 0!==a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"]){var e=document.querySelectorAll(\"iframe\");for(var t in a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"])for(var r,i=0;r=e[i];i++)if(r.contentWindow===a.source){var d=a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"][t]+\"px\";r.style.height=d}}})}(); <\/script> <\/p>\n<p>The poll’s findings come as Trump uses the National Guard and federal agents to crack down on crime in the district and beautify it. Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3785017\/muriel-bowser-credits-trump-dc-crime-drop-police-takeover\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">credited Trump<\/a> on Wednesday with a major decrease in homicides and carjackings since the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/black-lives-matters-most-prominent-chapter-launches-drive-targeting-police-unions\/\" title=\"Black Lives Matter\u2019s Most Prominent Chapter Launches Drive Targeting ... Unions\">local police force<\/a> was federalized, although she did signal her discontent with the National Guard members deployed from Republican states.<\/p>\n<p>More than half of people, according to the poll published Wednesday, also favor the use of the military and National Guard to assist local police. However, that support goes down when respondents are asked if the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-judge-grants-gop-lawmaker-standing-to-sue-biden-administration-over-unrwa-funding-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Texas judge grants GOP lawmaker standing to sue Biden administration over UNRWA funding - Washington Examiner\">federal government&rsquo<\/a>;s takeover of police departments in large cities is acceptable.<\/p>\n<p>Only 32% overall said it’s acceptable compared to 55% who said otherwise. Partisan voters were unsurprisingly divided on the issue, with 51% of Republicans backing federal intervention and 78% of Democrats opposing the idea.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Trump’s handling of crime garnered majority support. Overall, 53% approved of his job performance on the issue, with 88% of Republicans and 16% of Democrats contributing to the approval rating. About 46% of independents also approve.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3785275\/trump-crime-bill-congress-readies-dc-measures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TRUMP PITCHES ‘COMPREHENSIVE’ CRIME BILL WHILE CONGRESS READIES DC MEASURES<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump has vowed to bring the crime crackdown in Washington, D.C., to other blue cities. Chicago and New York are expected to be the next targets in the near future. Baltimore may also eventually see similar treatment after the president got into an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3780476\/trump-wes-moore-baltimore-crime-national-guard-deployment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">online spat<\/a> with Gov. Wes Moore (D-MD), who argued that the state and city have seen notable decreases in violent crime this year despite Baltimore’s ranking as the fourth most dangerous U.S. city in a <em>U.S. News & World Report<\/em> survey.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Associated Press<\/em>-NORC conducted its poll from Aug. 21 to 25 with 1,182 respondents, and the overall margin of error was plus or minus 3.8 percentage points.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most view crime in US as a ‘major’ problem, poll shows<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2159,"featured_media":2480139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AP25240669324161.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[50403,36174,50822],"class_list":["post-2480138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-crime-2","tag-public-perception","tag-us-2"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AP25240669324161.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2480138"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2480142,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480138\/revisions\/2480142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2480139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2480138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2480138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2480138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}