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Alana Wise

A quarter of U.S. adults fear being attacked in their neighborhood, a poll finds

A person walks down a street in Philadelphia, Pa. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

A quarter of American adults say they live in fear of being attacked in their own neighborhoods, according to a poll by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

The poll, conducted between June and July of this year and including a sample of 4,192 adults, found that Americans of color were more likely than white Americans to say they feared being threatened or physically attacked.

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