No effect for me either, I guess, except for ever higher car insurance rates, and our rates are already awful.
I have a statistically lower probability of being a crime victim again, as our house has already been burglarized and we've already had other property smashed in a "smash and grab", so I should be okay.
Unless somebody I care about becomes lost on the mountain or in the woods...
Or somebody I care about becomes mentally ill...
...or one of my kids or their kids becomes a victim of any kind of crime.
...or there is a bird-flu outbreak or the start of some other pandemic... (Because I see the DA can no longer staff the Medical Examiner's office for 24/7 response, so police officers will be the only response to unattended/unexplained death on two or three days per week. ...but there are only 700 of those deaths per year, and very few of them are homicides.)
My last trip to Portland I noticed that the stream of traffic was running at almost 80 miles per hour. I didn't see a state trooper until I got to Salem. That seems dangerous. Oh well.
We're in the worst 5% to 10% for property crime in the USA and we're getting worse, but most folks don't seem to care. Lane County is blazing new ground. Maybe it's possible for a community to function without a jail or any meaningful enforcement of the law. As Badger suggests, we'll see.
