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Roy Moore Calms Wounded People Before They Seek Revenge. Portland City Hall Is Betting His Work Can Curb a Wave of Shootings. His job is central to City Council s hope of slowing a vicious shooting war without turning to Portland’s most politically toxic solution: more cops. OPEN ALL NIGHT: Roy Moore keeps a phone by his bed so Legacy Emanuel Medical Center can contact him if shooting victims arrive overnight. “It’s hard to unplug,” he says. (Sam Gehrke)
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By Stephanie Kanowitz
Apr 06, 2021
In the two years since an executive order from Philadelphia Mayor James Kenney established the SmartCityPHL program, the two women who run it have laid plans to improve food distribution, the built environment and roads.
“We are locally inspired. We are not Silicon Valley, we are not New York City. We are Philadelphia,” SmartCityPHL Director Emily Yates said. “We have a lot of amazing assets and resources that we want to leverage to make sure that the work we push forward is representative of Philly and the needs that we have. We also want to make sure that we’re collaborative, innovative and, most of all, equitable.”
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Crime in Portland, Oregon has gotten to the point that police say they can’t keep up with the number of reported shootings, stabbings, and other acts of violence, but three of the newest city council members are still resisting Mayor Ted Wheeler’s call to spend $2-million dollars to put a team of police officers on the streets dedicated to combat the rise in violent crime.
Instead, they’re proposing the city spend nearly $5-million on anti-violence programs and adding more patrols of park rangers in the city. Yeah, park rangers.
The memo, sent to Wheeler last week and obtained by
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Portland City Commissioners Make Counteroffer to Mayor: $4.9 Million to Fight Gun Violence but No Cops They suggest foot patrols by Portland park rangers “seven days a week, including graveyard shifts.” Memorials to Jennifer Garcia and Charlie Borbon-Lopez line Khunamokwst Park. (Brian Burk) Updated April 1 Newly obtained documents show that three members of Portland s City Council on March 26 countered Mayor Ted Wheeler s $2 million proposal for a team of uniformed officers to curb gun violence in the city with their own proposal: more money, but no police.