Major violent and property crime in the mid-Hudson region has declined 42 percent from 1990 to 2015 despite a growing population, mirroring a national trend.
The question is: Do you feel safer?
A recent national poll suggests people don’t. The Gallup poll done in October 2016 found that Americans’ direct experience with crime was at a 16-year high, reflecting a gradual increase in the percentage who said they or a household member had been the victim of a robbery, vandalism or violent crime in the past year.
In the same poll, Americans’ perceptions of the seriousness of crime nationally and in their local area was unchanged from 2015. But it has worsened slightly since 2001…
Eric L. Piza, Ph.D. 