While crime has been on a steady downward decline from 1990s, 2020 saw a strong reversal in this trend. COVID related? Unclear.
Whatever the ultimate cause, Americans are worried about crime again. As our latest polling with USA Today shows, America sees law and order as the answer to the problem.
But America has changed. Indeed, underlaying this focus is a new awareness of racial inequality in policing and the criminal justice system. CONTINUED
Clifford Young, Ipsos
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