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\nScenic Portland, OR<\/p>\n
\nScenic Portland, OR<\/p>\n
In a flash of rationality Portland’s City Council has delegated 6 million USD to further the prevention of gun violence in the city. Gun crime has increased nearly threefold since last year when the same council disbanded the existing Gun Violence Reduction Team, for fear it was unfairly targeting minorities. The city police can certainly use the added funds, except they aren’t going to receive any. Of course.<\/p>\n
David sends.<\/p>\n
By ZACHARY EVANS<\/strong><\/p>\n The Portland City Council on Wednesday approved a $6 million plan to curb a rise in gun violence in the city, without adding funds to the city\u2019s police department.<\/p>\n The plan will provide $4.1 million in grants to non-profit groups that work with Portland\u2019s Office of Violence Prevention, as well as $1.4 million to the Parks and Recreation bureau to hire new park rangers, Oregon Public Radio reported. The new rangers would patrol city parks at least through the end of the year.<\/p>\n Portland has recorded 284 shootings since the beginning of 2021, compared with 100 over the same period in 2020.<\/p>\n The plan comes after the City Council voted last summer to disband the police\u2019s Gun Violence Reduction Team, which some council members said disproportionately targeted people of color. Mayor Ted Wheeler was able to gain approval from the council to reassign officers to form a new reduction team within the police.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat we\u2019re doing today is giving these young people a sense of hope,\u201d Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty said of the new plan. \u201cWhat we\u2019re doing today is starting a pathway to making sure we\u2019re investing dollars where they will make the most good.\u201d<\/p>\n Portland recorded 858 shootings in 2020, in which 224 people were hit and 52 died. The number of shooting deaths was the highest in Portland since 1993, when 54 people died.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n “A sense of hope” is meaningless, and somehow I doubt Portland’s parks are hotbeds of gun violence. Like Baltimore, the people get the government they elect. Read the entire article here: National Review<\/a>
\nThanks, David.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"