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Portland City Council approves $6 million gun violence reduction package April 07 2021
UPDATE: The package of new programs and funding takes effect immediately following the unanimous Wednesday vote.
The City Council unanimously approved a multi-part, nearly $6 million package to reduce gun violence in Portland on Wednesday, April 7. It takes effective immediately. Today I have hope, and you should, too, Commissioner Dan Ryan said.
The package is in response to the surge in shootings and killings that began in the middle of last year. It is intended to create a collaborative response to the increase in violence involving multiple jurisdictions and organizations in the Portland area. It declares gun violence is more of a public health crisis than a law enforcement issue.
Can Portland stem the gun violence without adding police? Beat Check Podcast
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Portland is on pace to hit 100 homicides this year, an unprecedented tide of violence that many other cities also are facing. Last week, the City Council unanimously acted, funneling millions to violence prevention groups and creating a new police unit.
On the latest episode of Beat Check with The Oregonian, City Hall reporter Shane Dixon Kavanaugh and cops and courts reporter Maxine Bernstein talk about Portland’s new plan to tackle gun violence without boosting spending on police.
We discussed how the deal came about; how it compares to the Portland Police Bureau’s Gun Violence Reduction Team disbanded last year; what the money will allow these groups to do, and much more.
The Oregonian, Oregon’s largest local newspaper, retracted its previous endorsement for defunding the police when it published an editorial calling for the
“While we supported the move at the time, we – and all Portlanders – should recognize what has also been lost. The Gun Violence Reduction Team responded to every shooting, identifying incidents that were connected and helping disrupt potential retaliatory action,” wrote
“Officers had established relationships with many of those considered high-risk for being involved in gun violence, connecting people with resources in the community as well as communicating with them about ongoing disputes to keep violence down,” continued the article. “And as part of their work, they took dozens of guns off the street.”
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