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The Portland City Council in Oregon has a new plan to fight a rising tide of gun violence: deploying unarmed park rangers who are not sworn law enforcement officers in some of the city's most dangerous quarters.
The city moved forward with the plan on Wednesday, giving the rangers a $1.4 million boost to "provide a positive, unarmed community safety presence in Portland’s parks and surrounding neighborhoods." People in the program can enforce park ordinances, and "when voluntary compliance cannot be gained, exclusions or ejections may be used, as well as civil penalties in limited cases."
Costing the city nearly $6 million, the plan does not allocate anything to bolster the Portland Police Bureau as the area has experienced roughly 250 shootings in 2021 so far, compared to 111 in the first few months of 2020. Instead, law enforcement officers have been directed to "realign internal resources to create six (6) additional assault investigative detectives and one (1) sergeant to coordinate on gun-related investigations."
"The devastating rise in gun violence in Portland and across the nation requires an urgent response and today the Portland City council took action," Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty wrote in a tweet. "This afternoon the City Council unanimously passed a comprehensive gun violence reduction proposal."
www.washingtonexaminer.com
LOL, how'd ya like to have that job? Unarmed park rangers going into Portland's most dangerous places. Anybody here want to sign up for that?
The city moved forward with the plan on Wednesday, giving the rangers a $1.4 million boost to "provide a positive, unarmed community safety presence in Portland’s parks and surrounding neighborhoods." People in the program can enforce park ordinances, and "when voluntary compliance cannot be gained, exclusions or ejections may be used, as well as civil penalties in limited cases."
Costing the city nearly $6 million, the plan does not allocate anything to bolster the Portland Police Bureau as the area has experienced roughly 250 shootings in 2021 so far, compared to 111 in the first few months of 2020. Instead, law enforcement officers have been directed to "realign internal resources to create six (6) additional assault investigative detectives and one (1) sergeant to coordinate on gun-related investigations."
"The devastating rise in gun violence in Portland and across the nation requires an urgent response and today the Portland City council took action," Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty wrote in a tweet. "This afternoon the City Council unanimously passed a comprehensive gun violence reduction proposal."
Portland deploying unarmed park rangers to combat surge in shootings
The Portland City Council in Oregon has a new plan to fight a rising tide of gun violence: deploying unarmed park rangers who are not sworn law enforcement officers in some of the city's most dangerous quarters.
www.washingtonexaminer.com
LOL, how'd ya like to have that job? Unarmed park rangers going into Portland's most dangerous places. Anybody here want to sign up for that?
