A recent poll shows that the rate of normal crime in the country is on the rise even as the number of Kenyans who consider the Al Shabaab a security threat decreases.
In the latest results released by research firm, IPSOS Synovate, the rate of ordinary crime in the country seems to be on an increase.
Evidence by a proportion of respondents polled in the survey show a slight increase of normal crime rate from 5% to 8%.
Of the incidents, those that involved violence have also increased from 40-48%.
The poll also found that only about half of such crime victims report them to the police arguing that they find the response from the police unsatisfactory; either weak response or no follow-up by the police.
In terms of the support of the continued presence of the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) in Somalia, 55% of Kenyans are said to be in favour of the policy.
In regard to the perceived level of security threat by the AL-Qaeda linked Al Shabaab to Kenya, 62% consider it a very serious threat, a decline from 3 months ago when 76% of Kenyans perceived it as constituting the highest threat level.
2,085 Kenyans in 41 counties were polled in this recent survey conducted between the 7th and the 19th of November 2015