Crime policy has not been a central issue in this year's presidential race, Berkeley law professor Barry Krisberg pointed out today in the blog The Crime Report.
While crime dropped recently for the fifth year in a row, several U.S. cities are among the most dangerous in the world. There was also a spate of mass shootings over the summer.
So, what do Obama and Romney propose to do to lower crime rates even more?
Here's where they stand on major crime issues:
Death penalty
Obama doesn't state his position on the death penalty on his website. He has advocated for death penalty reform while saying he still favors it for heinous crimes, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
Romney seems to be a more fervant supporter of the death penalty and even pushed to have it restored in Massachusetts when he was governor there, according to Boston.com.
Federal funding for law enforcement
The president has defended the DOJ's role in helping out local and state law enforcement, and would continue substantial funding for the DOJ, the FBI, and other federal agencies, according to The Crime Report.
Romney has proposed big cuts to federal law enforcement and the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Krisberg writes in the crime report. But, according to Krisberg, Romney has been short on details on that front.
Guns
Obama has pushed for reinstating the assault weapons ban but promised in 2008 that he wouldn't "take away" citizens' guns, according to the Washington Post.
For his part, Romney signed an assault weapons ban when he was governor of Massachusetts in 2004.
But the Washington Post reported Romney subsequently back-pedaled and told a group of conservative bloggers he didn't support "any gun-control legislation" – including an assault weapon ban.
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