Second headline murder in the Whiteaker in 13 months. The first was the drug dealer that the community literally begged EPD to help rid us of for months before he was gunned down in the street next to residences that house children. That one is still unsolved. Who knows how many other homicides didn't make the headlines? Just these two put the Whiteaker at over three times the national murder rate, per capita.

No police presence, no police response to calls for service be it for attempted break-ins, assault, menacing, drunk driving or attempted murder - what can one expect? Add in a thousand homeless (the site of this latest homicide appears to be the Mission, a source of much trouble in the area) and it's a recipe for a mess.

Two Eugenes isn't working. I'm seeing small and mid-sized businesses pull up roots and go elsewhere because of our broken police department. Some of these were looking at expansion; now that expansion will benefit other locales.