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Community members continue to voice concerns about gunshot-detecting technology being considered in Portland. At a recent Inter-Faith Peace and Action Collaborative meeting, opponents of the technology known as ShotSpotter pointed out its weaknesses. Jonathan Manes, attorney at the MacArthur Justice Center in Chicago, where the ShotSpotter surveillance system has been implemented, said there are no published studies about how the technology responds to loud noises, and notes every time it is triggered, police are expecting to find someone armed and potentially dangerous. ...

After a record 96 shooting in 2022, Dr. J.W. Matt Hennesee leader of the Interfaith Peace and Action Collaborative would like more to be done in 2023 in Oregon.

Many Oregon schools are not successful in identifying homeless students and connecting them with food, shelter and academic support.

After a spate of shootings at or near Portland schools, the school district is in talks with police over whether to reinstate school resource officers.

Portland Street Response (PSR) has experienced a surge in demand following the first response team's citywide expansion in April 2022. In the six-month window following the expansion, PSR workers responded to 717 percent more calls than they did during the same time period in 2021, according to a Portland State University study released Thursday. While the demand following the expansion illustrates the city's clear need for the alternative emergency response program, it also exposed cracks...