A person was carjacked and pistol-whipped in Anchorage, it was front-page news. It would not be front page news in any major city in the US. Crime has gone up in Anchorage but it is important to keep things in perspective. To suggest that Anchorage is this crime-ridden cesspool as so many on here have done is delusional. Go hang around Baltimore for a few weeks, come back and tell me how bad it is here.