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Portland housing bond: Why is the city taking so long to create new homes? Updated 7:30 AM; Facebook Share As winter wound down in 2018, Chardonai Jones and her young son bounced between living in a hotel room and her car. She was 18 with another baby on the way, had no credit or rental history, and her fiancé had an eviction on his record. Portland landlords didn’t think they were reliable tenants. But she and her family found home at The Ellington, an affordable housing complex that the c...

Portland leaders hope sweeping $6 million plan stems historic shooting surge Updated 6:28 PM; Facebook Share Portland’s mayor and commissioners Wednesday unanimously approved a $6 million plan they say is the best option to combat a dramatic rise in shootings and gun deaths that’s placed the city on track for a record number of homicides. It also provides millions of new dollars to community organizations for anti-violence work and authorizes the addition of two dozen unarmed rangers to pa...

by Alex Zielinski • Apr 7, 2021 at 4:36 pm DRAFTFOLIO / GETTY IMAGES Portland City Council responded to an alarming uptick in local gun violence by unanimously passing a $6 million emergency budget package on Wednesday. The proposal finances grants for community-based organizations that work directly with Portlanders impacted by gun violence, significantly expands Portlands park ranger program, and funds crime data collection and analysis. It does n...

The plan proposes the following: • The Portland Police Bureau will internally realign resources to gain the patrol, analytic and investigative capacities PPB says it needs to combat gun violence. • PPB will immediately add six additional assault investigative detectives and one sergeant to coordinate gun-related investigations working in partnership with the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office. • The city’s new community safety transition director will lead the development of ...

Editorial: Portland’s gun violence surge needs dedicated police team Updated 6:15 AM; Today 6:15 AM An investigation is underway after one person was fatally shot in March near a North Portland park, police say.Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian Facebook Share Contemplating the 266 shootings and 25 homicides in just the first three months of this year, Antoinette Edwards was struggling to understand how Portland city commissioners could oppose the mayor’s proposal to restart a Portland Police gu...

Font Size: Democratic Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler submitted a request to the Portland City Council on Thursday for a one-time $2 million expenditure for police, months after the council voted to cut nearly $16 million from the police bureau’s budget. Wheeler, who previously advocated for the Portland Police Bureau’s budget to be cut, cited a dangerous surge in gun violence throughout the city as the primary reason for requesting the funds, according to the Oregonian. Portland Mayor Ted Wheel...

Radio host Jason Rantz joins Tucker Carlson Tonight to explain what is happening on the West Coast The mayor of Portland, Ore., called for nearly $2 million in additional funding for the city’s police force and other agencies Friday, citing a rise in homicides and other violent crime. But members of the city council were either mum or not fully committed so far on whether they’ll back the plan, according to reports. The request by second-term Mayor Ted Wheeler came Friday during his State o...

March 11, 2021 On behalf of Multnomah County, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, Local Public Safety Coordinating Council, Multnomah County District Attorneys office, Portland Police Bureau, Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office, Gresham Police Department, and the Inter-Faith Peace and Action Collaborative, we share a sense of urgency regarding gun violence on our streets. Words cannot adequately describe the immeasurable toll gun violence exacts on families and our community. As of March 8, 2021 there ...

by Alex Zielinski • Mar 11, 2021 at 5:50 pm A photo from 2017 show Portland police officers with a now-dissolved gun violence team making a traffic stop. City of Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler plans on asking his fellow city council members to okay $1.7 million in emergency city funds to immediately re-establish a police patrol similar to the dissolved Gun Violence Prevention Team (GVRT). In a proposal sent to Wheelers office by the Portland Police Bure...

Portland mayor seeks $2 million to stem rampant gun violence by Sara Cline, The Associated Press Posted Mar 11, 2021 8:56 pm EDT Last Updated Mar 11, 2021 at 8:58 pm EDT FILE - In this Aug. 5, 2019, file photo, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler poses for a photo outside City Hall in Portland, Ore. Wheeler announced Thursday, March 11, 2021, he would seek $2 million in one-time funding from a reserve contingency account to invest in the Portland Police Bureau as well as other agencies and programs in h...