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Community
Participation is Great
Communities work best when the School Zones - and the in
everyone has a stake. It is not enough creased severity of punishment for
simply to live someplace or work crimes committed within them - will
someplace - in order to be a true serve as a deterrent to illegal activ
member of a community, you have ity.
to be an active agent in its growth
The commission moved on to the
and development. And most of all, installation of a network of surveil-
you have to,watch your neighbor’s lance cam eras alo n g N orth
back.
Killingsworth Street where it runs
Not so very long ago - before our past Cascade Campus. The cameras
lives became so compartmentalized, proved their worth immediately, and
before electronic media were able to their footage continues to be used
keep us on the couch instead of on by the Police Bureau to apprehend
the stoop or the sidewalk - this suspects in the area.
notion of community was accepted
As the commission’s work gath
instinctively. Of course everyone ered momentum and recognition,
had everyone else’s back, no ques the level of collaboration between
tion about it.
its members broadened and deep
But today, in an age when it seems ened. The Police Bureau decided to
communities are as often virtual as build on the group’s success by
they are real, it can take a little extra stepping up its presence and vis
effort to ensure that everyone has a ibility in the vicinity, and even formed
stake, that we are all active agents in a special Street Crimes Unit dedi
our collective development. That’s cated to the Albina-Killingsworth
why Portland Community College ’ s area. The Police Bureau and PCC
Cascade Campus has joined forces Public Safety collaborate and share
with our neighbors - residents, information at a higher level than
businesses, government agencies, ever before.
and community groups - to take
All of these measures, and those
steps to make sure our common still to come, are making the envi
neighborhood remains a vital, en rons around Cascade Campus safer
gaged, and safe community.
and more secure for everyone who
Founded in 2006, the Albina- uses them - be they a resident, a
Killingsworth Safe Neighborhood student, or an employee. More than
Commission - named for the inter anything else, though, the commis
section of the two thoroughfares, sion has been a success because it
the center of Cascade Cam pus’ has drawn the diverse elements of
“neighborhood” - counts among our neighborhood together for a
its m em bers Cascade Cam pus, common purpose. People know each
Jefferson High School, the Portland other better, communicate more, and
Police Bureau, TriMet, the North are more invested in one another’s
Portland Library, the PCC Public safety and prosperity.
Safety Department, the Piedmont
Will the commission continue be
and Humboldt Neighborhood As successful? I believe that it will,
sociations, and a host local busi provided that the members of the
nesses and residents.
Our aim is neighborhood continue to be ac
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quite sim ple-to work cooperatively tive agents on one another’s behalf.
to address issues of safety and liv The commission has shown that
ability in the area that sustains us. In with a little effort, people from all
other words, to be active agents in walks of life can come together as
our community.
one. Such a thing has a value that in
The commission began simply, many ways can’t be measured.
with the formation of a neighbor When neighbors collaborate to work
hood graffiti response team and the toward a common goal, to make their
establishment of clearly marked neighborhood a better place, they
School Zones in a 1,000-foot perim become more than the sum of their
eter around Jefferson High School, parts - they,are a community.
Ockley Green Middle School, and
Algie C. Gatewood, Ed.D., is
the other public school campuses in president of Portland Community
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