Greater than 7 in 10 New Yorkers are involved they’ll grow to be a sufferer of violent crime, a brand new ballot has discovered.
About 76% of residents are “very involved”, or considerably involved, they’ll be focused amid the Huge Apple’s ongoing crime wave, in accordance with the Spectrum Information NY1/Siena School ballot launched Tuesday.
Solely 24% stated they weren’t involved — at the same time as crime charges proceed to surge.
The ballot additionally discovered that 70% of New Yorkers really feel much less secure now than earlier than the COVID-19 pandemic began.
It comes as the most recent NYPD information from final week confirmed gun violence had dropped by practically a 3rd in Might in comparison with the identical time final 12 months — however shootings have been nonetheless practically double pre-pandemic ranges.
Different main crimes continued to extend final month, in accordance with the NYPD information.
Of the New Yorkers polled, 45% stated Mayor Eric Adams was doing a poor job on combating crime throughout the town.
Adams, as just lately as Monday, has touted enhancements to addressing crime since he took workplace, saying of the NYPD: “Their job is to take harmful individuals off the road. My job and the job of my companies is to forestall individuals from being harmful. And that’s the partnership we’re creating.”
Practically 50% of these polled consider Adams can also be doing a poor job addressing homelessness.
Regardless of vowing to make unannounced inspections at homeless shelters within the scandal-scarred system, a Publish report on Sunday confirmed Adams had solely visited three services.
Solely 29% of these polled rated Adams’ general efficiency as mayor pretty much as good or wonderful, whereas 64% stated he’s doing pretty or poorly.
The ballot of 1,000 New York Metropolis residents was performed between Might 22 and June 1.
