I too remember the days when this kind of vandalism would have been unthinkable. I'm seldom in my hometown anymore, but when I am, I'm appalled at what I see as I drive around My Town. What can Alaska do, to become a healthier place? A safer place? (And I do think it's an Alaska problem, not an Anchorage problem.) Anchorage has become a place where raw vandalism - one among many ills, and Marty's citing of regular shootings and murders, not to mention the incessant panhandling  (and I'll add miscellaneous mayhem) - is the stuff of daily news, just something to be expected. But I'll have to say that this enormous act of vandalism, and our apparent powerlessness to prevent it, or apprehend the perpetrators, is shocking in the extreme. So we have to look further back: What are the root causes? Where does this come from? Mere security cam improvements aren't going to be the answer. Something has changed in the last 40-50 years, and we'd better figure out what it is.