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Mayor Ted Wheeler Will Seek to Bring Back Police Patrols to Reduce Portland Shootings Is this the Gun Violence Reduction Team again? He says no, but it looks familiar. Portland police officers converse with racial-justice protesters in June 2020. (Wesley Lapointe) Updated March 11 Mayor Ted Wheeler is asking the Portland City Council to reestablish a uniformed police squad to patrol communities impacted by fatal shootings. On Thursday, Wheeler joined a group of religious leaders seeking to reduce shootings in Portland s Black community in backing a proposal, drafted by police, to create a uniformed patrol team to prevent gun violence, increase funding to shooting investigations, and create an independent oversight committee to watchdog the new police patrol.
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