Last night about twenty minutes before midnight we had eleven shots fired near the Mission. The number of shootings in this city is getting more than a little outrageous, and yet our police are completely at sea. That's one of the many problems with allowing 80% of the police force to live outside the city that employs them; they just don't really care about what happens here.

I guess I should add that after decades of having about one homicide per year, we've now had 17 in the past three years, a nearly six-fold increase sustained for several years. Not coincidentally, Eugene has seen a huge increase in homeless drug addicts over the past few years. They provide demand for drugs, the suppliers bring the guns. Add in a DA's office that has all but ignored drug offenses for years and the outcome is predictable.