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July 22 2021
A 12-bureau task force has been formed following the late June heat wave suspected of killing 71 city residents.
The city of Portland will open more cooling centers in civic buildings staffed with public employees during the next heat wave. It also will improve communications so that more people know they are available and how to reach them.
Those are among a series of preliminary recommendation proposed by a task force convened by Mayor Ted Wheeler and the City Council following the late June heat wave suspected of killing 71 Portlanders. The task force included 12 city bureaus and plans to have a heat emergency operational guideline completed by July 30, and also will update plans on other environmental events.
Police union blasts proposed Portland budget May 13 2021
The Portland Police Association blames the increase in shootings on the elimination of the Gun Violence Reduction Team.
The head of the union representing most Portland Police Bureau employees criticized the City Council for considering cutting its funding hours before the scheduled vote on next year s budget.
In an email press release, Portland Police Association President Daryl Turner blamed the surge in shootings and killings that began last year on the council s elimination of the bureau s Gun Violence Reduction Team during social justice protests. The team had been accused of disproportionately focusing on the Black community.
May 11 2021
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler and Commissioners Mingus Mapps and Dan Ryan call for studying a crisis-intervention program before expanding it.
In late 2019, Portland s City Council unanimously and enthusiastically approved a game-changing plan to create a new branch for our city s first responder system called Portland Street Response. The program is currently operating as a one-year pilot in the Lents neighborhood.
The idea behind this new service is: instead of sending armed police officers to respond to 911 calls involving a houseless person experiencing a mental health crisis in a public space, the city will send out a team of mental health specialists, who will try to connect the person in crisis to the services they need to heal.
May 11 2021
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler and Commissioners Mingus Mapps and Dan Ryan call for studying a crisis-intervention program before expanding it.
In late 2019, Portland s City Council unanimously and enthusiastically approved a game-changing plan to create a new branch for our city s first responder system called Portland Street Response. The program is currently operating as a one-year pilot in the Lents neighborhood.
The idea behind this new service is: instead of sending armed police officers to respond to 911 calls involving a houseless person experiencing a mental health crisis in a public space, the city will send out a team of mental health specialists, who will try to connect the person in crisis to the services they need to heal.