March 11, 2021
On behalf of Multnomah County, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, Local Public Safety Coordinating Council, Multnomah County District Attorney s 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 have been 278 shootings in the Portland region; 58 injury shootings, and 17 gun-related homicides.
Gun violence rates continued to increase amid the City of Portland s proactive response to community demands to invest and reexamine historic approaches to gun violence. As public officials, it is our responsibility to work in partnership with the community to galvanize every possible resource to prevent, intervene, investigate, and suppress gun violence.
The people most harmed by crime are the least helped, a new study finds
Updated Dec 10, 2020;
Posted Dec 10, 2020
The nonprofit Partnership for Safety & Justice, which advocates for public safety and criminal justice reforms, coordinated with local service groups to interview 40 Black, Indigenous and Latinx people affected by crime. The interviews occurred in 2017 and 2018.
LC- Mark Graves
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People of color who have been traumatized by violence in the Portland metro area are too often presumed to have committed a crime when they were the ones harmed and as a result are less likely to report crimes to police and get the services they need, a new study finds.