{"id":206478,"date":"2023-11-09T06:11:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T10:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=206478"},"modified":"2023-11-09T09:23:59","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T13:23:59","slug":"crime-identified-as-major-issue-to-tackle-in-dr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2023\/11\/09\/crime-identified-as-major-issue-to-tackle-in-dr\/","title":{"rendered":"Crime identified as major issue to tackle in DR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Gallup-delincuencia-Diario-Libre-1024x498.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-206543\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Gallup-delincuencia-Diario-Libre-1024x498.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Gallup-delincuencia-Diario-Libre-300x146.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Gallup-delincuencia-Diario-Libre-768x373.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Gallup-delincuencia-Diario-Libre-1536x747.png 1536w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Gallup-delincuencia-Diario-Libre.png 1950w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The three main problems that affect the Dominican Republic today are linked to citizen security, the high cost of living and unemployment, according to the Gallup-RCCMedia survey, Diario Libre reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The percentage of Dominicans mentioning crime as the nation\u2019s most important problem was 62.6%. Robberies, assaults, gangs, and crime in general for the first time are identified as the country\u2019s main problem. Economic issues \u2013 inflation, cost of living (61.2%) and unemployment (19.5%) follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When persons eligible to vote in the 2024 general election were asked how things are going in the Dominican Republic, 52.0% said the country is headed in the wrong direction; 38.2% said it was on the right path, 7.9% said it was on neither the right nor the wrong path and 1.9% don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regarding the national economic situation, 46.9% consider it bad, 18.6% average, 17.3% very bad, 15.5% good and 1.4% very good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The poll was carried out from 25 to 29 October 2023 2023 with 1,200 persons eligible to vote surveyed in person. The poll has a 2.8% error margin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/politica\/2023\/11\/08\/encuesta-gallup-trae-principales-problemas-de-rd\/2518038\">Diario Libre <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9 November 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The three main problems that affect the Dominican Republic today are linked to citizen security, the high cost of living and unemployment, according to the Gallup-RCCMedia survey, Diario Libre reports. The percentage of Dominicans mentioning crime as the nation\u2019s most important problem was 62.6%. Robberies, assaults, gangs, and crime in general for the first time &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2023\/11\/09\/crime-identified-as-major-issue-to-tackle-in-dr\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[319,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206478"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206545,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206478\/revisions\/206545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}