Voters blame crime on drugs, breakdown of family among others

Nearly 30% of voters suspect drugs and substance abuse are the root causes of crime in their communities, but voters’ answers were scattered across several possible causes in a new NewsNation/Decision Desk HQ poll. 

Nearly 17% of voters chose the breakdown of family units as the root cause. Fewer attributed crime to lack of adequate mental health and treatment programs, and underfunded law enforcement. 

Those views are strongly divided along party lines.

Republican voters were about three times as likely as Democrats to say the breakdown of the family unit and...