Multnomah County DA also urges the Biden administration to take action against gun violence.
As gun violence continues to make headlines in Portland, Mayor Ted Wheeler said he supports moving more Portland Police Bureau resources to gun violence response. And Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt was one of 46 prosecutors nationwide that urged the Biden administration to take action against rising gun violence.
At a regional gun violence response coordination meeting Friday morning, Feb. 5, Wheeler said he supports the deployment of a sergeant, four officers and two detectives to be on call to respond 24/7 to shootings to assist in crime scene processing.
February 05 2021
The mayor talks about how the city is working to reduce gun violence, stop protest violence and more.
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler sat down (remotely) with KOIN 6 News on Thursday to answer our questions about skyrocketing gun violence in the city, protests, livability issues, and the increasingly hostile political climate that has resulted in the mayor hiring security to accompany him when he s out in public.
Editor s note: KOIN 6 is a news partner of Pamplin Media Group. Answers during the Feb. 4 interview have been edited for length and clarity.
Q: At various times in the past couple months there have been talks about bringing the Gun Violence Reduction Team or something similar back. Where do those talks stand now and do you believe the disbanding of the GVRT had anything to do with the spike in shootings?
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He can tell you who was shot here.
Driving along W. Broadway in north Minneapolis, Farji Shaheer talks about a woman who took a bullet through her Dodge Durango in this very spot. He tells the story of a 10-year-old who was shot in the back seat of his mother s car. He speaks of the teenager who was about to leave for college when rivals shot up his house.
Shaheer, 41, is on his way to visit yet another man recovering from gunshots at North Memorial Health Hospital in Robbinsdale. In a few hours he will go home to his great-nephew, who survived a shooting of his own. All the while, he fields calls from others shattered by gunfire.
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Three Minneapolis City Council members introduced a proposal Thursday that would nix the city s police department and replace it with a new Department of Public Safety, while still keeping officers in the city.
The plan proposed by Phillipe Cunningham, Steve Fletcher and Jeremy Schroeder said the new setup would also include additional divisions . to provide for a comprehensive approach to public safety beyond law enforcement.
The council has been pushing for sweeping reforms to the police department after protests rocked Minneapolis for months following the death of George Floyd in late May. Floyd died in police custody after an officer could be seen on video kneeling on his neck for more than 8 minutes while other members of law enforcement stood by without intervening.
Minneapolis councillors float new plan for police department
by The Associated Press
Last Updated Jan 28, 2021 at 6:14 pm EDT
MINNEAPOLIS Three Minneapolis City Council members who pledged to dismantle the city’s police department in the wake of George Floyd’s death announced a new proposal Thursday that they say would keep officers in the city but remove a requirement that calls for a minimum number of them.
The plan by Phillipe Cunningham, Steve Fletcher and Jeremy Schroeder calls for the city to replace its police department with a new Department of Public Safety that would include police officers and “additional divisions … to provide for a comprehensive approach to public safety beyond law enforcement.”