City: Fatal police shooting, most other calls, not a good fit for Portland Street Response
In order for dispatchers to send Portland Street Response, the person in question has to, among other things, be possibly experiencing a mental health crisis. Author: Maggie Vespa Updated: 9:07 PM PDT April 19, 2021
PORTLAND, Ore. In the wake of Friday’s fatal police shooting in Southeast Portland’s Lents neighborhood, heads of a new, alternative first response program say they’ll be reviewing the details of that initial 911 call to see if their staff should have been dispatched instead of or alongside officers.
For now, reps for Portland Street Response (PSR) agree with the city’s Bureau of Emergency Communications (BOEC) and the Portland Police Bureau (PPB): that callers’ assertions that the man in question was armed left emergency dispatchers with no other choice but to send police.
Jonathan Levinson
Originally published on April 16, 2021 6:00 pm
Portland police shot a person at Lents Park in Southeast Portland just after 9:30 a.m. Friday. Police confirmed that the victim, a white man who has not been identified, died at the scene.
Sgt. Kevin Allen said officers from the bureau’s East Precinct dispatched to a “suspicious circumstance involving a weapon.” Acting Police Chief Chris Davis, who is filling in for Chief Chuck Lovell during Lovell’s vacation, said that the call was for a “white man pointing a gun in the park.” When asked if police recovered a gun from the scene, Davis said he could not answer that question yet.
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