Prince George Citizen polled 902 Prince George Citizen readers and asked the question: Do you believe the decriminalization of drugs has led to an increase in violent crime?
The poll ran from January 26 to February 4. Of the 902 votes, we can determine that 476 are from within the community. The full results are as follows:
Yes, no question 53.57% local, 54.77% total
Mostly yes, but there are many other contributing factors 22.90% local, 21.73% total
Not sure 3.78% local, 3.88% total
Mostly no, there are other more significant contributing factors 12.61% local, 11.97% total
No, little to no connection between the two 7.14% local, 7.65% total
Local Total
Results are based on an online study of adult Prince George Citizen readers that are located in Prince George. The margin of error - which measures sample variability - is +/- 3.24%, 19 times out of 20.
Prince George Citizen uses a variety of techniques to capture data, detect and prevent fraudulent votes, detect and prevent robots, and filter out non-local and duplicate votes.