Lane County’s struggling criminal justice system has left unincorporated residents with little patrol

Lane County’s struggling criminal justice system has left unincorporated residents with little patrol

When Tracy Sandahl stopped by her home on her lunch break last November, something felt off.The back door of Sandahl’s rural Florence-area home was open, something she, or her husband would never forget. The front door, she discovered moments later, had been forced open.“I just started panicking. I thought, ‘what is going on?’” Sandahl said. “I went to my bedroom, because I looked around the living room and didn’t see anything amiss. So I went t…