Times are good. They don't care about the President as long as everything is running smoothly. Some people are not not as concerned with the President's success but with his failures. Some think his moral standards have brought the country's values to an all time low. Considering crime is significantly down, maybe the country's morals are at a high.
Crime exists when society decays.
This would lead us to believe society is better today than it was just a few years ago. It's all in how you look at things. Some would argue that drug use is up under the Clinton watch. Of course that stands to reason. If crime is down and the economy is strong, people have money from work and not crime to spend on luxuries.