Separate Police Taxing District could Solve Rural-Urban Conflict (Local Opinion) (Lane County's Rural Community Needs a Stable System for Public Safety‪)‬

Byline: Gary Crum For The Register-Guard Surely every resident of rural Lane County is aware of the limited service we receive from the Lane County Sheriff's Office. Reports of crimes, short of a violent felony, will not result in a deputy showing up, and there will be no follow-up investigations of crimes such as burglary. You will be sent a form to return by mail to the sheriff's office so you will have met the legal requirements for reporting the crime and can claim any loss with your insurance company. Deputy patrols are so thinly spread that response time to a crime in progress would likely be half an hour or more.