What does Portland (Oregon?) have to do with Portugal?

> Crime — including robbery in public spaces — spiked 14 percent from 2021 to 2022

I wonder what else changed between 2021 and 2022 that could have caused robbery in public spaces to spike.

So many things have changed in Portugal over the last decade, Lisbon and Porto in particular, that looking just at drug policy is insufficient. In particular, cost of living and immigration from poorer countries (both correlated with “number of desperate people”) have risen significantly.