Whoa whoa whoa everyone this crime increase is by very expensive design to scare the populace into paying TAXES.  Look at the pattern here:  Cut off funding for the AST, close AST posts, limit hours and staffing at all crime and justice levels, employ judges that have no sense of right and wrong, hamstring those that do, and lastly deny there is anything wrong out there. This is nothing more than an orchestrated and a conspiracy to fit the mold of "they have had enough"  and will pay taxes to fix it.  I call BS on the gov. and the mayor of ANC, those two could not manage their way out of a Target store.