Crime goes up, solution is more cops.  Anchorage has been an under-policed city compared to comparable sized cities for years now (even before Danny Boy tried to earn his spurs as a union buster by strangling the police department of personnel and resources).  Cops cost money, and can't be mass produced once you're in an emergency, to borrow a phrase from the military special operations community.  Anyone furious about crime in Anchorage telling the mayor or their assembly members it's time to issue bonds, raise taxes, or otherwise find the dollars to put another hundred or two hundred cops on the street and detectives on the case?