Why is Anchorage's crime so bad?

ask roger

Prob has something to do with the 4 months of darkness.

Because the cost of living is terrible. Booze is incredibly expensive, and it’s cold as shite half of the year.

Not to mention, a bear might eat your face off at any time

it's dark and freezing for many months of the year

that would drive myself insane

It’s where criminals go to find work with no questions asked.

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Poors and druggies I guess?

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Guessed right

Hispanic gangs, Samoan gangs, drunk natives, white dudes who drifted up there to get away from whatever they couldn't or wouldn't deal with at home. Lots of meth. Alaska is a paradise because of the scenery, not the people, many of whom are trashy AF.

Yep.

There's a ton of destitute and homeless there. My dad pointed out that if you go up there for manual labor and for whatever reason lose your job - drugs, crime, injury - it's not exactly easy or cheap to leave so you're just kind of stuck there until you die.

This means a lot of people whose life took hard turns are just stuck there doing what they feel they have to in order to survive.

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I suspect a lot of low life transients that are there because they're probably running from something(s)

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The same reason you find families who are generationally criminal elements living along state lines. Great great great Grandpappy was on the run, crossed the line and here we are. Bootleggers, dope growers, and now mostly methhead copper thieves.