Page 6 Portland O bserver, April 1,1982
Ronnie Herndon, co-chairman of the Bieck
United Front, ie presented with BUF "Men of the
Year" award by co-chairman Reverend John Jack-
son. Josephine Mayes and Dr. Derrick Bell. Dean
of the University of Oregon Law School, join in the
applause.
(Photo: Richard Brown)
Jimmy "Bang-Bang" Walker was honored on
his 50th birthday with a surprise party. Among
those who toasted the man of the hour were Bill
Hilliard and John Davis. Walker—fighter, publish
Noelle explains "S tre e t Crime U n it" agenda
by Harris Levon McRae
As part o f P o rtla n d ’ s “ war on
crim e” plan. M ayor Ivancie and
C hief o f Police Ron Still are devel
oping a street crime unit. The unit
will consist o f one police lieutenant,
two sergeants and ten officers to pa
trol ‘ high-crime trouble areas.” The
unit is to be headed by Lt. Dan N o
elle.
“ We intend to work all over the
city and to try to deal with some o f
the real serious ongoing problems.
Burglary, robbery, rape, theft, and
assault at the street level. We hope
to be very flexib le in our opera
tion,” L t. Noelle said.
M an y citizens w onder how the
street crim e unit would be able to
deter crime that other police officers
haven’t been able to stop in the past.
“ The way the situation is now, in
order to have any special police
work done like having decoy female
officers to stop guys from h arass
ing w om en, or having unm arked
burglary patrol cars, it draws from
the existing manpower o f that par
ticu lar precinct. This street crime
u n it w ill allo w us to do flexib le
things with officers. We should be
capable o f coming in and not inter
fering w ith existing o p erations,”
said the lieutenant.
According to M ayor Ivancie the
street crime unit is being implement
ed “ to step up enforcement o f all
crimes and disorderly acts by film
ing street activity, arresting perpe
trators and im pacting significant
crime patterns in Portland.”
“ Portland has the fourth highest
reported crime rate in the U .S ., and
to me that is a frightening statistic. I
think o f Portland as a livable city,
but I ’m over six feet tall and almost
200 pounds, so I feel safe. I f I was
75 years old and 130 pounds, I
might not feel as safe. We obviously
have a serious crime problem that
we have to deal with. I f Portland is
slipping into that crime m old, we
had better act pretty quickly before
dow ntow n P o rtla n d becomes a
ghetto,” Lt. Noelle said.
The Street C rim e U n it is part o f
C h ie f S till’ s and M ay o r Ivan cie’s
five-po in t crim efig h tin g program
that has been months in the making.
Other highlights o f the program
include proposals for more immedi
ate jail space and a “ process center”
that is supposed to be designed to
in te rru p t the cycle o f repeated
crimes being committed by unpun
ished habitual offenders. The effort
includes a letter from Mayor Ivancie
to President Reagan requesting
funds, land or existing facilities un
der federal c o n tro l that could be
used to give P o rtla n d m ore ja il
space immediately.
Ivancie said that he had already
received an indication o f willingness
from the W hite House to volunteer
federal resources for local crime-
fig h tin g e ffo rts . H e said that he
hoped his letter to President Reagan
would “ spur a specific response”
but “ regardless o f President Rea
g an ’s reaction , we w ill develop a
definite program to solve Portland’s
ja il space crisis as soon as possible.”
Other points in the “ battle plan”
propose a “ com m u nity a lert and
s u p p o rt” emphasis on providing
crime prevention leadership to busi
ness people, community groups and
individual citizens, and a package of
seven city ordinances prohibiting
specific forms o f disorderly and har-
rassing conduct, drinking in certain
public areas, loitering and danger
ous weapon possession, and an or
dinance calling for m andatory ja il
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sentences for those convicted o f vio
lating certain ordinances.
Some citizens refer to M ay o r
Ivancie, C h ief S till, and their pro
posed ordinances as being like “ the
Gestapo.” Stevie Remington o f the
A m erican C iv il Lib erties U n io n
doubted the c o n s titu tio n a lity o f
some o f the proposed ordinances.
Ivancie and S till acknowledged
that questions probably would be
raised about the constitutionality o f
some o f the proposals. The feeling
was, however, that those questions
should not stop the C ity C ouncil
from approving the ordinances.
“ I f we always worry about whe
ther or not an ordinance is constitu
tional, we would never pass a law,”
the Mayor said.
L t. Noelle elaborates: “ As far as
the constitutionality o f these ordin
ances, they will be reviewed by the
C ity Council and the City Attorney
before becoming C ity Ordinances.
A lot o f the ordinances are similar
to ones we have used in the past. I
Woman judges
meet topic
don’t think we were Gestapo in the
past when we used those ordinances.
People tend to forget that police o f
ficers are citizens that live in the
com m u nity to o . 1 d o n ’ t w ant the
Gestapo but I want my w ife and
kids to be safe to go to the park or
school without being robbed or as
saulted.”
“ As far as Stevie Rem ington is
concerned, there are a lot o f other
things that I w ould ju m p up and
down about, like the economy’s ef
fect on w hat’ s happening in crime.
Less than four per cent o f the total
misdeamonors arrested serve sen
tenced jail time, because no facility
is a v a ila b le — th a t’ s what I would
shout about. I f the City Council de
cides that they are ordinances that
shouldn’t be passed, that’s fine; in
the meantime we still have to go out
and face and deal w ith the crim e
problem.”
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