Americans Are Right to Be Worried About Crime

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

A new Gallup poll shows 53% of those surveyed said they “worry a great deal” about crime and violence and another 26% worry about it a “fair amount.” 

The intensity of concern is the highest at any time since 2001 and represents a fourteen percent increase over the previous year’s data.  What could possibly be prompting such worry? 

Maybe it’s the growing evidence that jihadists – perhaps including some President Obama is determined to import from Guantanamo Bay – will kill more of us here at home. Maybe it’s the sustained, disabling assault on America’s cops. Maybe it’s the crazy bipartisan insistence on freeing tens of thousands of violent drug felons, even though over 70% of them typically return to crime. 

Americans are right to be worried – and to insist on a course-correction. 

This is Frank Gaffney.