Americans perceive a plethora of troubling trends in the U.S., but they are particularly worried about the recent upsurge in violent crime rates across the nation.
While crime was the top concern, Americans' anxieties appear to be broadly spread out, with no single issue looming large among their biggest fears.
The poll, conducted by TechnoMetrica Market Intelligence, is part of an ongoing monthly effort by Issues & Insights and our polling partner to gauge Americans' beliefs about key issues.
In the case of violent crime, a year-and-a-half of "Defund the Police" followed by actual budget cuts for police forces has been accompanied by an upsurge in violent crime, especially murder, and crime's emergence as a renewed concern for many Americans.
In a 2019 Pew Research survey before last year's BLM-Antifa-Defund the Police movement swept major American cities, crime ranked 11th out of 18 major concerns for Americans.
Today, as the I&I/TIPP Poll shows, it's No. 1.
Some 22% of them called "Right-wing terrorists" the nation's top threat, ahead of the 18% of Democrats who said crime was the biggest issue.
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