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Portland’s Mayor Wants to Buy the Questionable ShotSpotter System to Fix the City’s Endemic Violent Crime Problem

March 5, 2025September 26, 2022 by Grace Stevens

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler has decided to move forward with a controversial technology that claims to detect and pinpoint gunshots throughout the city. The Focused Intervention Team’s Community Oversight Group, or FITCOG, recommended the city adopt ShotSpotter in a July report. That report called the technology “a focused deterrence tool as part of the overarching … Read more

Portland Antifa Picks Fight With Bikers, Then Blame Police When They’re Shot [VIDEO]

March 5, 2025February 21, 2022 by John Boch

Imagine the irony when the very same violent Antifa militants who spent the last two years promoting “Defund the Police” now blame those same police for not protecting them when their intended victims fight back. Antifa in Portland apparently tried their bully tactics on the Gypsy Jokers motorcycle club over the weekend and things turned … Read more

Portland’s Image Has Been Trashed by 2 Years of Riots and Violence and the Far Left Doesn’t Like the Result

March 6, 2025October 6, 2021 by Dan Zimmerman

[S]ome Portlanders came to see the demonstrations as a threat to the city’s appeal to tourists and investors. “Lenders and purchasers have for all intents and purposes blacklisted Portland,” said John Russell, a longtime Portland real estate developer. Dramatic clashes between protesters and law enforcement provided the opportunity for right-wing politicians and media to … Read more

Mayor of Antifatown Has a Plan to Do Something About ‘Gun Violence’

March 6, 2025December 20, 2020 by Dan Zimmerman

With less than two weeks remaining in 2020, Mayor Ted Wheeler, Police Chief Chuck Lovell and Office of Violence Prevention Director Nike Greene announced preliminary plans to try and curb a dramatic increase in shootings and homicides. The plan, announced Friday evening, calls for more detectives to be assigned to investigate and follow up on … Read more

Could Have Been a Defensive Gun Use: Portland Man Attacks Women with Handsaw

March 6, 2025July 23, 2020 by John Boch

A lunatic armed with a hand saw attacked a number of people in Portland last Friday afternoon. Among his victims: two unarmed women at a laundromat. The suspect, Shane Vordelmicha Green, walked in and began using the saw as a slashing weapon upon two woman. He soon left and continued his rampage outside. As is … Read more

Portland Cop Chooses Bullets Over Taser

April 6, 2010 by Robert Farago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhkE3VTuPhk

A grand jury found “no criminal wrongdoing” in the case of a Portland police officer who shot a homeless man named Jack Dale Collins. According to the police report, Collins was approaching officer Walters with a knife—even though the officer repeatedly told him to drop it. So officer Walters shot and killed Collins. Which is fair enough. Or is it? Officer Walters didn’t tase Collins. Officer Collins claimed he didn’t use a Taser stun gun “because it wouldn’t have worked through the man’s heavy coat” (according to an investigative report released Monday, reported by tdn.com).

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