[aliasxneo]

> I think part of the challenge is that, when we talk about crime, what do you mean by crime?

As I was processing the article, I was subconsciously asking this in my head. My first thought on whether I believe crime was going up was yes, but for me, it related more to the increase in public overdoses in my town. Naturally, I would assume if I see more overdoses, then more illicit drugs must be getting sold, and therefore crime must be going up. But this raises a lot of questions:

Are the same overdoses increasingly spilling out into the public? Are the illicit drugs getting stronger and thus causing more overdoses?

Answering yes to either of these may mean the actual crime rate hasn't changed. Anyway, it was just a rabbit hole I went down in my head that I think speaks to what is being said here.