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

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A quarter of U.S. adults fear being attacked in their neighborhood, a poll finds
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A quarter of American adults say they live in fear of being attacked in their own neighborhoods, a joint NPR poll finds. The reasons ranged from looming threats of violent racism to fears of societal collapse.

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.

Paul Ongtooguk, an Alaskan Inuit man living in Anchorage, has lived with this kind of fear for most of his life. "This one was really weird. I was in Philadelphia, somebody asked me if I was an octoroon," Ongtooguk said, referencing an offensive, outdated term for a person of 1/8th Black ancestry."I had to look it up."

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