Trump is leaning into his crackdown on city crime. The GOP sees it as a winning issue

Crime shouldn’t be looked at through a partisan lens, but Trump has tapped into one of the most basic quality of life issues, said Jillian Snider, a member of the Council on Criminal Justice and retired New York police officer.

She said most people do not look online to see if crime is up or down. They instead walk down the street.

“That is the real problem here, that general community members, they don’t care as much to be schooled by what the stats show us,” said Snider, who also teaches at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. “They just care about how they feel in their communities.”