The poll's margin of error is 3.4 percentage points. Look what happened yesterday. They had a raid on the high school. It's not violent, but it could be,'' she said, referring to a drug sting last week at Gahanna Lincoln High School. Her neighborhood is safer than parts of Columbus, said Sarah, who lived on the East Side for 20 years before moving to Gahanna four years ago.
People say things are getting really violent.
This country was founded on violence,'' said Allen, referring to the persecution of American Indians. Black respondents were much more likely to perceive crime as a problem both in the city and the suburbs. And while 59 percent of black poll participants said police were doing an excellent or good job, blacks were twice as likely as whites to say police are doing a poor or very poor job. Allen sided with about 20 percent of respondents who said police officers do neither a good nor poor job. They spend a little too much time looking for petty incidents instead of greater incidents,'' said Allen, a television picture-tube technician and Marine Corps veteran.