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Poll: Crime 2nd Highest U.S. Concern:  A just-released Gallup survey of top concerns in the U.S. ranked crime and violence as second highest concern, slightly under affordable health care.  78% of respondents said that their concerns about crime were either very high or a fair amount.  For most of the 1980s and the first half of the 1990s, when crime rates were very high nationally, Gallup surveys consistently ranked public concern about crime among the top three highest concerns.  It remains to be seen if the high level of concern reported this year is related to the recent Parkland, Florida shootings or about the overall level of crime and violence nationally.  

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