If you feel less safe on the streets and are worse off financially than you were four years ago, you are not alone.
Six in 10 Americans think the country has become more dangerous since President Joe Biden took office, and a paltry 14 percent say his administration has done a good job fighting crime.
About 56 percent of Americans, including 51 percent of independent voters, also think the economy has worsened in another damning indictment of Biden’s leadership.
The results of a DailyMail.com/JL Partners poll come as stores in major cities are closing due to rampant shoplifting and days after Philadelphia was hit by looting.
The majority of Americans feel less safe now than when President Joe Biden took office and believe he has not done a good enough job fighting crime, a new DailyMail.com poll shows.
Last month, the US also reached the grim milestone of 500 mass shootings in a year for the third time.
Of the thousand likely voters surveyed, only one in ten said they feel safer on the streets since Biden was inaugurated in January 2021.
Only 28 percent of independent voters — a group crucial to Biden’s 2024 victory — gave the White House good marks for tackling crime.
The results will increase pressure on Biden, who faces poor approval ratings and ongoing questions about his age.
His gamble to convince the public that he has changed the economy with ‘Bidenomics’ also does not seem to be paying off.
Democrats are reportedly trying to pressure the White House to change its message as the US gradually recovers from historic inflation.
The president has also continued his war on guns with the creation of a federal Office of Gun Violence Prevention.
But his actions have struggled to appeal to a skeptical American public, who believe violence on their doorstep is increasingly becoming a problem.
“There is no doubt that Donald Trump is galvanizing the Democratic base to support Joe Biden,” said Scarlett Maguire, director at J,L, Partners.
However, it would be a mistake for the sitting president to think he can rely on Trump’s divisiveness and extreme unpopularity with part of the electorate to secure a second term.
“As doubts about Biden’s leadership continue to grow, 2024 could turn into a referendum on his presidential record.
‘If so, he would be in big trouble. Six in ten Americans feel less safe on the streets than they did four years ago, and only one in ten Americans think it has become safer.
‘Let’s put that in context: only one in ten people you meet on the street every day thinks that street is safer than four years ago. That is a record that Biden will have to carry.”
Trump told the Republican Convention in California on Friday that he would stop the “looting and theft” and vowed to shoot looters.
“Quite simply,” the ex-president explained, “if you rob a store, you can be sure that you will be shot as you leave the store. Shot.’
The crowd of about 1,500 Republicans responded to the proposal with chants of, “Trump!”
His comments came 48 hours after shocking images emerged of Philadelphia stores being looted.
Dayjia Blackwell, 21, who calls herself ‘Meatball’, has live-streamed her crime spree.
It was the latest shocking indictment of the way cities and local businesses are being decimated.
Retail giants in the US are closing stores and suffering critical losses due to shoplifting,
Target said last week it was closing nine U.S. stores because theft and crime were contributing to “unsustainable business performance.”
And CVS said it would close 900 stores by the end of 2024.
According to a recent National Retail Federation study, inventory shrinkage or unexplained inventory losses will cost U.S. retailers an estimated $112 billion in 2022, or about 1.6 percent of their total sales.
And with as much as 70 percent of shrinkage due to theft, that means retailers lost approximately $78.4 billion to shoplifters last year.
A study published in April by WalletHub found that homicide rates in America’s largest cities have increased by 10 percent.
Memphis, New Orleans and Richmond rank as America’s homicide hot spots, with scholars linking their rising murder rates to soft Democratic leadership and low police morale.
Shocking footage from the City of Brotherly Love shows Fine Wine And Good Spirits being smashed apart in latest flash robbery crime
Shoplifting has gotten so bad in San Francisco that some stores now padlock their freezers and attach metal chains to ensure the doors stay closed at night
A map shows the major companies that have left or are planning to leave San Francisco in recent months
Photos obtained by DailyMail.com show addicts shooting up in broad daylight, standing hunched over or passing out on the street
New Yorkers are also increasingly alarmed by crime, with millions saying they have never been more concerned and are turning to guns, pepper spray and self-defense classes to make themselves feel safer.
Polling from the Siena College Research Institute (SCRI) showed shocking levels of fear across the Empire State, where 87 percent say crime is a serious problem and 61 percent fear becoming a victim themselves.
In the center of the looting, Philadelphia, crime has also increased.
The latest figures, up to last Sunday, show that there have been 302 murders in the city so far this year.
There have also been 402 reported cases of rape, 58,759 cases of property crimes, 3,701 cases of aggravated assault and 1,314 shooting victims.
The city suffered two flash mob incidents last week when masked looters looted Footlocker, Apple, Lululemon and a shuttered liquor store.