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New Portland police data shows steady decline in gun violence"
"PORTLAND, Ore. (KPTV) - It’s encouraging news about a problem plaguing the City of Roses.
New crime data from the Portland Police Bureau shows the number of deadly shootings has dropped by 56% compared to this time last year. Overall shootings have also dropped by 34% in Portland too. Community-based organizations that have spent a lot of
time over the last year to try and prevent gun violence said this data shows what their doing is working. Lionel Irving, CEO of Love is Stronger G.V., said the community should take this as a small win because there is still a lot of work to do.
“It makes me optimistic that we’re headed in the right way but it also makes me cautious that I don’t think we got the problem solved,” Irving said.
He credits much of his organization’s success over the last few months to the millions of dollars given out to non-profits through Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler’s Safe Summer PDX program."
PORTLAND, Ore. (KPTV) - It’s encouraging news about a problem plaguing the City of Roses.
https://www.kptv.com/2023/03/22/new-portland-police-data-shows-steady-decline-gun-violence/
"Auditor Finds Police Lack Data to Judge Effectiveness in Curbing Gun Violence A follow-up report says the police bureau still has work to do to implement audit recommendations from 2018."
https://www.portlandmercury.com/cops/2023/03/21/46413756/auditor-finds-police-lack-data-to-judge-effectiveness-in-curbing-gun-violence
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