总统乔·拜登在总统任期的头几个月里，他主要关注国内问题，包括犯罪和枪支暴力。
上个月，他公布了多层次战略关于枪支犯罪，包括向警察部门提供联邦资源，让社区使用大流行救济基金进行预防项目，包括雇佣顾问和社会工作者。
拜登当时说:“这不应该是红色或蓝色的问题——这是美国的问题。
但是，如何处理犯罪，特别是在正在进行的关于警务和替代性犯罪预防问题的对话中，往往会因党派而分裂，在党派内部也是如此。并非所有民主党人都与拜登的计划步调一致，一些共和党人也同意他们的观点。根据调查，大约26%的民主党人不赞成拜登在犯罪问题上的工作美国广播公司新闻/华盛顿邮报最近的一项民意调查，而只有6%的共和党人赞同拜登如何处理这个问题。
拜登的计划之一——增加资金，特别是在贫困地区，用于预防枪支犯罪——得到了两党的支持:61%的共和党人和90%的民主党人。
来自北卡罗来纳州的民主党选民贝利·多克里(Bailey Dockery)在告诉民调机构她不赞成后告诉美国广播公司新闻(ABC News)，“我觉得总有改进的空间”，但她补充说，拜登很可能会“尽力而为。”
Dockery说，“绝对需要控制谁可以拥有枪支”，但她不认为枪支控制法应该包括没收人们的枪支:“当有人告诉你不要做某事时，你会想做得更难10倍。”
“犯罪改革不是我认为应该的，有了惩戒系统、刑事司法系统...没有足够的康复，”来自俄亥俄州的民主党选民罗伯特·贝尔告诉美国广播公司新闻，他也表示不赞成。
他说，政府应该更加关注“犯罪的起始因素是什么”，包括缺乏住房和社区资源。
美国广播公司新闻/华盛顿邮报的民意调查是在美国犯罪率上升期间发布的，与2020年同期相比，2021年第一季度的凶杀案增加了24%，枪支袭击增加了22%，根据一项研究新冠肺炎和刑事司法全国委员会。地方和联邦政府也在讨论针对犯罪根源的治安替代方案。
关于犯罪和相关问题的联邦政策也受到了密切关注。
纽约大学法学院无党派的布伦南正义中心智库表示:“如今，人们逐渐认识到，联邦资金帮助加深了当今警察与其声称服务的社区之间的毁灭性裂痕。”书写在最近的一项分析中。
但是，尽管大多数接受调查的共和党人表示，他们不赞成拜登政府在犯罪问题上的工作，但一些人表示，他们支持他的努力。
来自宾夕法尼亚州的共和党选民保罗·布拉泽奇(Paul Brazezicke)在接受美国广播公司新闻(ABC News)的后续采访时表示:“自他掌权以来，暴力事件似乎减少了。
来自密西西比州的共和党人桑德拉·布坎南(Sandra Buchanan)表示，她赞同拜登对犯罪的处理，因为“我认为他在做的每件事上都做得很好”，并认为犯罪不是总统的错，而是个人的错。
接受美国广播公司新闻采访的其他共和党人表示，他们对警务以外的一些替代方案持怀疑态度，包括雇佣更多社会工作者与警察一起工作，但他们确实认为改善服务不足地区的经济机会会有所帮助。
来自康涅狄格州的选民大卫·巴顿说:“我只是认为，如果有人正处于犯罪的边缘”或者处于类似的高风险情况，他们不会被社会工作者说服。
但他确实认为增加对社区的资助会产生影响。巴顿说，他是弗里托-雷的司机，负责向市中心社区送货，在“一个城市里，他们做了一些很好的工作...(它)让人们对这个地区更加尊重，因为没有更好的词了。”
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密西西比州的希拉·塔朋曾经是共和党人，但现在是注册的独立人士，她说她觉得利用社会工作者来减少犯罪是行不通的，“因为在很多情况下，这太少了，太晚了。”
她说，她当了6年的精神病护士，有时会关注社区中患有精神疾病的人，并补充说，“我们没有资源让这些人生活。”
在谈到资助社区时，Tabone说“在没有计划的情况下向一个问题扔钱是行不通的”，但她支持资助和培训警察部门的计划，以及“帮助想要过上体面生活的人过上体面生活”的计划。
民主党选民在犯罪问题上与政府或全国民主党人的观点不一致，这与最近纽约市民主党市长初选获胜者、布鲁克林区区长、前警官埃里克·亚当斯的观点相呼应。周一，在接受美国有线电视新闻网(CNN)记者杰克·塔珀(Jake Tapper)采访时，他称全国民主党在枪支犯罪问题上的优先考虑是“错位的”，称应该更加关注手枪的传播，而不仅仅是突击步枪。
但亚当斯也是周一在白宫与拜登会面讨论减少枪支犯罪计划的社区领袖和执法官员之一。他后来告诉记者，“为什么过了这么久我们才听到枪声，每个家庭每天晚上都在听。...这位总统说，这不是我们将要生活的美国。”
Biden said crime isn't 'a red or blue issue -- it's an American issue.' What do Americans think?
PresidentJoe Bidenhas focused the opening months of his presidency largely on domestic issues, including crime and gun violence.
Last month, he unveileda multi-tiered strategyon gun crime that includes giving federal resources to police departments and letting communities use pandemic relief funds for prevention programs, including the hiring of counselors and social workers.
"This shouldn't be a red or blue issue -- it's an American issue," Biden said at the time.
But how to deal with crime, particularly during ongoing conversations regarding the role of policing and alternative crime prevention matters, tends to splinter along party lines -- and within the parties themselves. Not all Democrats are in lockstep with Biden's plans, and some Republicans agree with them. Some 26% of Democrats disapprove of Biden's work on crime, according toa recent ABC News/Washington Post poll, while only 6% of Republicans approve of how Biden has handled the issue.
One of Biden's plans -- increased funding, especially in impoverished areas, for gun crime prevention -- has support across both parties: 61% of Republicans and 90% of Democrats.
"I feel like there's always room for improvement," Bailey Dockery, a Democratic voter from North Carolina, told ABC News after telling a pollster she disapproved, but adding that Biden is likely "doing the best he can."
Dockery said that there "needs to definitely be control over who's allowed to have a gun," but she doesn't think gun control laws should involve confiscating people's guns: "When somebody tells you not to do something, you want to do it 10 times harder."
"Crime reform is not what I think it should be, with the corrections system, criminal justice system ... not enough rehabilitation," Robert Bell, a Democratic voter from Ohio who also said he disapproves, told ABC News.
The administration should focus more on "what are the initiating factors in crime," he said, including a lack of housing and community resources.
The ABC News/Washington Post poll was released during an uptick in crime in the United States, with 24% more homicides and 22% more gun assaults in the first quarter of 2021 compared with that period in 2020,according to a studyby the National Commission on COVID-19 and Criminal Justice. There are also ongoing discussions in both local and federal government about alternatives to policing aimed at the underlying causes of crime.
Federal policy on crime and related issues has also been under the microscope.
"Today, there is an emerging recognition that federal dollars have helped deepen today's devastating fissures between police and the communities they purport to serve," the non-partisan Brennan Center for Justice think tank at New York University School of Lawwrotein a recent analysis.
But while most Republicans polled said they disapprove of the Biden administration's work on crime, some said they support his efforts.
"There seems to be less violence going on since he's been in power," Paul Brazezicke, a Republican voter from Pennsylvania, told ABC News in a follow-up interview.
Sandra Buchanan, a Republican from Mississippi, said she approves of Biden's handling of crime because "I think he's doing a good job on everything he's doing" and feels that crime isn't the fault of the president but of individuals.
Other Republicans who spoke with ABC News said they're skeptical of some alternatives to policing, including hiring more social workers to work alongside police, but they do believe improving economic opportunities in underserved areas would help.
"I just think, if someone's at the point where they're committing a crime" or in a similar high-stakes situation, they won't be talked out of it by a social worker, said David Patton, a voter from Connecticut.
But he does believe increased funding for communities could have an impact. Patton said he was a driver for Frito-Lay who delivered to inner-city communities, and in "one city where they did some nice work ... [it] made people more respectful to the area, for lack of a better word."
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Sheila Tabone of Mississippi, once a Republican but now a registered independent, said she felt that using social workers to reduce crime wouldn't work "because it's too little, too late in a lot of cases."
She said she was a psychiatric nurse for six years, and focused on individuals with mental illness in the community at times, adding, "We do not have the resources for these people so they can live."
When it comes to funding communities, Tabone said "throwing money at a problem without a plan doesn't work," but she supports plans to fund and train police departments, and plans "to help people who want to live a decent life to live a decent life."
The views of Democratic voters not in lockstep with the administration or national Democrats on crime echo those of recent New York City Democratic mayoral primary winner Eric Adams, the Brooklyn borough president and a former police officer. He called the priorities of national Democrats on gun crimes "misplaced" in an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper on Monday, saying more focus should be on the spread of handguns than on just assault rifles.
But Adams also was among the community leaders and law enforcement officials who met with Biden in the White House on Monday to discuss plans for reducing gun crimes. He told reporters afterward, "Why did it take so long before we heard the gunshots that families were listening and hearing every night. ... This president said, this is not the America we're going to live in."
