An increase of drugs pouring across the border and theft crimes in the local communities continues to raise concerns. Monmouth Police Chief Joe Switzer attributes a portion of the increase to inflation:
“There is a whole host of different things that are leading to that. The drugs are pouring across the southern border and all that is doing is allowing those drugs to be filtered through the interior of the nation. We are just as susceptible to that as any other location. I think inflation is playing a big role in the crime realm. People need money; they need quick money and they need items to sell or trade for different things and I think that is what has picked that up.”
