I got really triggered by the crime reporting about Portland because I feel like it is motivated with a political bias. So, I went and looked at the crime repo

I got really triggered by the crime reporting about Portland because I feel like it is motivated with a political bias. So, I went and looked at the crime reports (which are from the police, and come with their own filters, of course) from Twitter. Almost all the homicides are in areas where significant homeless populations exist. And, very late at night. My takeaway is that it is currently very dangerous to live on the streets. You call them criminals, and I think that is the inevitable consequence of living on the streets, especially when more and more cities are outlawing homelessness, but that's probably more a perspective, and I still have a lot of fear of people living on the streets. Is that the message we see in the media? No, we see that it is more dangerous for the "common person living in a blue city." Random violence is not the root cause of the increase in the homicide rate. This makes me frustrated because the police could easily target those areas from midnight to 6 am and solve 80%+ of the homicides. Or, they could, if you believe that police can stop that kind of violence. Maybe they can, maybe they cannot. They should not be in the business of solving homelessness. The story that homicides in a liberal city were due to BLM protests is a much more bombastic and clicktastic story than that. Sound to me that what I found aligns with your experiences in many ways.