When I moved to Idaho in 1990 there was one murder in the entire state that year. One. Next year the murder rate tripled, there were three murders in 1991.
Up until just a few years ago, meaning 2014 or 2015, it was nothing to walk around downtown or even the fringes late at night or through a large parking garage and not even think about personal danger. The only violence was college students sometimes getting in a drunken fistfight along a one or two block area of Main Street where the college bars are located. I hear there was a shooting (yep - a damned Norwegian) there a few months ago, first time I'd ever heard of that.
This is disheartening.
