Parks and their parking lots off table for new homeless shelters March 31 2021
The Portland City Council pares back homeless shelter options when approving Street to Shelter Continuum Project on Wednesday.
The City Council voted on a number of measures related to homelessness in Portland including amending the city s proposed Shelter to Housing Continuum Project to explicitly prohibit outdoor shelters in natural areas, parks or park parking lots on Wednesday, March 31.
The council s housing emergency declaration was also extended for another year.
The council voted to amend and approve the Shelter to Housing Continuum Project, which is intended to expand shelter and housing options throughout the city by changing zoning codes to allow for more managed homeless camps, among other things. This would allow organizations and nonprofits to provide hygiene services, trash collection and wrap-around social services.
Homicide detectives can t keep up with Portland killings March 31 2021
Homicides overwhelm Portland Police Bureau in 2021, with more deaths so far than most years total. These homicide detectives are buried under their cases. They just keep coming, Portland police Lt. Greg Pashley said on the heels of a grizzly night in the city that left three people dead.
Pashley spoke Wednesday. March 31, to address two separate shootings and a stabbing just hours earlier.
The first incident a shooting was reported near the 600 block of Northeast 131st Place shortly after 10 p.m. March 30. One person was injured and hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries. Officers found the suspect a short time later inside a pickup truck, but he fled and a chase ensued. The chase ended in a dead-end parking lot and, after hours of negotiations, the man took his own life.
Pedestrian killed by MAX train
A pedestrian died Wednesday evening after being hit by a MAX train in Southeast Portland.
The name of the victim was not immediately announced.
The Multnomah County Sheriff s Office said the person was struck near the Clinton Street and Southeast 12th Avenue station on March 32. Detours and shuttles were used in place of the Orange Line MAX train.
Transit police were investigating the crash. Deputies said the investigation was being treated as a suicide. No other details were immediately available. is a news partner of the Portland Tribune.
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Portland Tribune reporter admits to enjoying his guilty pleasure of the self-described entertainment sport.
Government restrictions to fight COVID-19 abruptly shut down nearly every live performance event in the country early last year, including concerts, plays, dance performances and such guilty pleasure as monster truck races and, my personal favorite, professional wrestling.
I can hear the howls of protest now. How can possibly like professional wrestling? It s so crude and fake!
Then why is it so enduringly popular, even spawning spinoffs like Young Rock, the new semi-autographical comedy series on NBC about Dwayne The Rock Johnson, the former professional wrestler who is now arguably the most popular actor in the world?
Portland protest arrests through February 2021
Prosecutors received 294 demonstration-related cases over the past 10 months.
As protest-related vandalism continues in Portland, the Multnomah County District Attorney s Office said they re continuing to prosecute criminal cases that involved property destruction and physical violence over the past year.
Between May 28, 2020, and Feb. 26, 2021, the DA s office said they received 294 civil unrest demonstration-related cases that fall into four categories: arson burning, person crimes, property crimes, weapons crimes.
Those four categories account for only 28% of all the arrests, the DA s office said. Data shows the breakdown between charges filed and sent back to police for follow up:
• Arson burning: 54% charged, 7% sent back