Biden is Rated Poorly on Handling Crime;Alternative Approaches Win Broad Favor
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The number of Americans seeing crime as an extremely serious problem in the United States is at a more than 20-year high, Joe Biden is underwater in trust to handle it and broad majorities in anABC News/Washington Post poll favor alternative crime-fighting strategies to address it.A sweeping 75 percent in the national survey say violent crime would be reduced by increasing funding to build economic opportunities in poor communities. Sixty-five percent say the same about using social workers to help police defuse situations with people having emotional problems.These measures, aimed at underlying causes of crime, are most apt to been seen as effective, by substantial margins, of five that were tested. Among the others, 55 percent think increasing funding for police departments would reduce violent crime, 51 percent say the same about stricter enforcement of existing gunlaws and 46 percent say so about stricter guncontrollaws.
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