Anchorage as many other cities and communities in the US it has come down to show me the money. If residents don't like the idea of contributing more taxes to maintain or increase the funding for public safety they just will get less of it. There was a 1000 pound bear June in Bird Creek area that was involved in many encounters with humans in an area populated with homes, business's, campgrounds, tourists and the Seward Hwy. After the bear approached us several times, once in the dark we called the AK State Troopers, Chugach State Park Rangers and the Police in Anchorage to report this big and dangerous brown bear we got a real response from the Anchorage Police Dispatch who said, " do you have a gun and know how to use it" and since the answer was "yes" it appears we were good to go. The state law says if we kill the bear ourselves we have to fill out a report, harvest the skull and hide for F&G and get rid of the big beast. Since we don't own a front end loader we declined to kill it