The Role Of Crime In America

It seems from a political point of view, that crime policy is more important to the Democratic party than the Republican party or independents. “Democrats who were more likely to say that reducing crime was “the most important issue” for the President and Congress to address. Nearly 30% of Democrats (28.8%) gave this answer, compared with 17.9% of Republicans and 26.2% of independents.”

Given the steady flow of news agency reporting being focused on rapes, murders and other various types of violent crime, this creates a notion among the American public that crime is seemingly out of control. But is it really? Or is it that because of the advent of increased media outlets such as Facebook, and countless news websites that it is just that we now can see, twenty four hours and seven days …show more content…
“The measurement of crime is a complex exercise, considerably complicated by the lack of internationally comparable data. The best data on crime come from standardized victim surveys, such as those conducted under the International Victims of Crime Surveys (ICVS) program. Unfortunately, only one Caribbean country—Barbados—has conducted such a survey. Other victim surveys are helpful, but suffer from a lack of international comparability, due to differences in methodology.” This would give the American public a much clearer and precise perception of crime in the country and more importantly to them, in their specific community. Also, it would allow the possibility of these policies to eventually become legislation therefore having a greater impact on the prevention of crime. This of course is a focus of the law enforcement community as a whole. Although it is a good thing that crime is being fought and criminal arrests are being made, the community might feel better about a crime being completely prevented rather than the crime already having been