text: This is just another example of the unreported, undocumented, and officially denied 'crime problem' that is sweeping through Anchorage and the Mat-Su, fueled by drugs, ignored by lawmakers, aided & abetted by such as SB91, and routinely placed at the bottom of the Response List for higher-income producing responses. Low-level crime is the Base, and if you neglect it, it ratchets up the scale until it does indeed hit the level of Murder. Abandoned houses where the squatters have more rights than the public, Pawn Shops willing to take anything (again with more rights) , catch-and-release 'responding' by Police for serial shoplifters that now have impunity for anything they can get their hands on, homeless encampments here they can't be removed, it escalates until someone gets dead. Then they come pick up the pieces, and who does that help?
  
  Base-level policing is what does the most good, not revenue-generating enforcement. And our so-called representatives have their priorities reversed.