Photos: Eagle River residents meet with APD about crime worries

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Eagle River resident for 26 years, Joan Hamilton (in the Boston sweatshirt), describes how she doesn’t feel safe in her community during a town hall meeting on May 3, 2016.

Anchorage police Sgt. Josh Nolder told a crowd of about 50 Eagle River residents that his department's data shows crime declining in the suburban community, but the official numbers did not curb their fears; they spent most of the two-hour meeting telling personal stories about witnessing criminal behavior or being a victim of it.

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