{"id":580395,"date":"2021-07-02T19:35:15","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T23:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=580395"},"modified":"2021-07-02T19:35:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T23:35:17","slug":"poll-americans-give-biden-dismal-ratings-on-his-handling-of-crime-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-americans-give-biden-dismal-ratings-on-his-handling-of-crime-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Americans Give Biden Dismal Ratings On His Handling Of Crime Surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpoll-americans-give-biden-dismal-ratings-on-his-handling-of-crime-surge%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=580395&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1325123211-scaled-e1625264963824.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Americans gave President Joe Biden a poor rating regarding his handling of the ongoing crime surge in American cities in a July 2 poll.<\/p>\n<p>An ABC News\/Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.langerresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1221a1CrimeandRacialJustice.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">poll<\/a> revealed that only 38% of Americans surveyed approve of Biden\u2019s handling of the surge. Overall, 48% disapprove of the president\u2019s job on crime.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/23\/joe-biden-strategy-crime-gun-violence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Biden<\/a> administration has placed emphasis on stricter <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/06\/20\/special-forces-association-rejects-calls-for-gun-control-from-petraeus-mcchrystal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gun control<\/a> efforts in order to combat the crime surge, announcing his plan to use a \u201ccomprehensive strategy\u201d that intends to end the use of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/05\/09\/washington-state-gun-laws\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ghost guns<\/a>&nbsp;and hold firearm dealers accountable for violating federal gun laws. The president has also announced a strategy to invest in community violence interventions. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/16\/joe-biden-approval-rating-putin-summit-g7-kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>(RELATED: Biden\u2019s Approval Rating Drops Below 50%)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In regards to solutions, 51% of Americans believe \u201cstricter enforcement of current gun laws\u201d will decrease crime rates and only 46% argue that \u201cstricter gun control laws\u201d will solve the problem, according to the poll. Out of the Democrats surveyed, 81% believe gun control will reduce the crime surge in contrast to 13% of Republicans that agree, the poll showed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"10.571428571429\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">JUST IN: The number of Americans seeing crime as an extremely serious problem in the United States is at a more than 20-year high, President Joe Biden is underwater in trust to handle it, according to a new ABC News\/Washington Post poll. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YL0ShXtflQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/YL0ShXtflQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ABC News (@ABC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABC\/status\/1410904505340895233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 2, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Additionally, 75% of those surveyed believe \u201cincreasing funding for economic opportunities in poor areas\u201d and 65% believe \u201cusing social workers to help police\u201d will reduce crime, according to the poll.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past year, major U.S. cities have recorded drastically higher numbers of homicide, shootings, and robberies than in previous years. The number of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/23\/baltimore-chicago-milwaukee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">homicides<\/a> have spiked by 18% across the country in comparison to 2020, particularly in Chicago that had a total of 317 homicides between Jan 1 and June 22, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>New York City\u2019s overall crime rate surged by 22% in the month of May compared to the same time last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.nyc.gov\/site\/nypd\/news\/pr0603\/nypd-citywide-crime-statistics-may-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to the New York Police Department (NYPD).&nbsp;Between October 20, 2020 and June 21, 2021, the percentage of Americans viewing crime as an \u201cextremely serious\u201d problem surged from slightly below 20% to 28%, the poll showed.<\/p>\n<p>Out of those surveyed, 55% believe funding the police is the solution to combating crime, according to the poll. Cities that defunded their police departments suffered spikes in <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/06\/violent-crime-surge-black-lives-matter-police-accountability-minneapolis-george-floyd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">violent crime<\/a>, including Minneapolis neighborhoods that saw a 36% increase in violent crime in 2020 and New York City\u2019s murder rate increased by 39% that same year in comparison to 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the poll revealed that 36% of people surveyed trust Republicans over Democrats to handle the crime surge, while another 35% trust the Democratic party. One-fifth of Americans reportedly trust neither party to handle the increasing rates of crime.<\/p>\n<p>The poll surveyed 907 adults on June 27-30 with a 3.5% margin of sampling error. The poll surveyed 30% registered Democrats, 24% of Republicans, and 37% of independents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans gave President Joe Biden a poor rating regarding his handling of the ongoing crime surge in American cities in a July 2 poll.An ABC News\/Washington Post poll revealed that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313952,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1325123211-scaled-e1625264963824.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Poll: Americans Give Biden Dismal Ratings On His Handling Of Crime Surge","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1325123211-scaled-e1625264963824.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Poll: Americans Give Biden Dismal Ratings On His Handling Of Crime Surge","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580395","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}