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Sending more people to prison, deporting illegal immigrants, cracking down on marijuana use — those are some of the things the Trump administration has said will make America safer.
But what do crime victims think about all this? It is a group whose views are rarely measured, but a poll commissioned by the Alliance for Safety and Justice sought to find out.
A few notes of caution: The group supports criminal justice reform, including incarcerating fewer people, and seeks to promote the voices of victims who agree. And the random survey, which has a margin of sampling error of 3.4 percent, was taken in May, before President Trump repeatedly criticized Jeff Sessions, the attorney general, on Twitter.
But it is a rare chance to hear from victims, more than 800 of whom were asked about their views on the administration’s criminal justice policies. By and large, their priorities appear very different from the president’s.
Half of respondents said they felt less safe since Mr. Trump took office, though it was not clear that this was because of his approach to criminal justice. Only 39 percent said they felt less safe when Mr. Trump discussed crime or criminal justice. But when the…
