. Other hard-hit Western cities include the Albuquerque, New Mexico, metro area, which has about 679,000 residents and has seen a record 97 homicides this year.
Insufficient manpower and funds have forced officials to implement nontraditional ideas in an attempt to hinder gun violence. In addition, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler announced in June that officers are no longer being directed to stop drivers for low-level traffic violations. “This past year has shattered anything that I’ve ever witnessed,” said Irving, the outreach worker and a former gang member. He said he does not see gun violence slowing without more officers on the street and a specialized gun violence unit, along with investments in community-based organizations.a letterThe increasing violence and pleas for cities to do more have compelled some areas to switch from defunding police departments to restoring funding to them.
nderi_j Umm 🤔 what is wrong with the human sociological stature? Are the citizens being perceived by other forces scenarios,situations, what is leading to such grossly behaviour of the human mind ?
Oregonians are well aware of what needs to be done to fix the problems It starts with a change in city leadership. Goodluck dont take to long in making the changes. Your citizens lives depend on it.
Portland OR population 645k and homicides 67. Memphis TN population 651k and 221 homicides.
Ptld Police do 1 thing, & 1 thing only: Serve & protect out-of-town Proud Boys & Patriot Prayer thugs as they speed thru town spraying mace on locals having coffee & lunch, shoot paint balls at ppl & businesses, hit ppl walking across st in crosswalks, smashing parked cars.
The comments below are ridiculous. Police don't prevent crime? Silly statement. Population increase? 200,000 people did not move to Portland last year. We would have seen crime grow in pace with the population over time. Why the recent spike? What has changed? 'Defund'
SaraLCline what does massive mean to you? no need to cite sources or include a per capita rate? how many people lived in Portland in the 1980s? lazy research
Maybe you can’t let criminals out of jail without consequences? Maybe you can’t wish away crime by being nice to criminals? Just some thoughts
So how’s all that defund the police crap workin out for ya? 😂
The population of Portland has more than doubled since 1987.
Police dont PREVENT murders or any other crime, and they very rarely actually solve crimes. So why would a bigger budget help?
How exactly do police prevent murders?
Keep up with? Yeah those unsolved murders aren't going to file themselves
How many lives will we lose in cities across the country until we change our gun laws? NRA instead of your canned 2nd amendment response how are you helping?
What’s interesting, the PPB hasn’t found one fingerprint on any of the thousands of shell casings at the crime scenes.
Defund the police, said no one with a brain ever
Read the article. Defunding & not supporting = less cops = more murders. Effective programs stopped due to a perception of “racism” despite the fact most perps are indeed POC (can you name a white gang?). Drugs are legal. Anarchy been permitted for years. Who’s been in control?
Very misleading.. has nothing to do with budget cuts .. just away to make it seem like police do need more funding.. 🙄😒 and they DONT
Incredibly misleading. What happened to journalistic standards ? I kinda expect this from the NYT but not the AP
I live in Birmingham, AL and we are at 99 for the year with a third of Portland’s population so forgive me if I don’t think this is a problem.
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Let’s go Oregon!
Biden has destroyed America, worse than Trump ever could.
Cops are a huge problem in Portland. They intentionally let nazis rampage through the streets of Portland
DEFUND THE POL.... oh.
BLM should take pride on this along with their buddies in democraKs.
So, tell us, what was the Portland police’s case closure rate for homicides and other violent crimes prior to all this? Because if it’s anything like that of police in other areas, lack of funding is not and was never the problem.
Be careful what you wish for! ❄🧚♂️😂🖕
Vampires back in the northwest.
Great job tedwheeler OregonGovBrown RonWyden SenJeffMerkley Wonderful work for the citizens of Portland.
tedwheeler is a wonderful mayor and all the blame belongs to Donald Trump. Alas, I still remember his historic stand against the great tyrant.
Worth noting that the population doubled during that time.
Who gave all the chuds the orders to comment “social workers” on this tweet
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