3:,?t $lortlanò (Observer Diversity Special Edition
August 22, 2012
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Curtailing a hangout for loitering and a spot where drugs were bought and sold, Portland Community
College installed a fence on top of an old foundation wall along North Mississippi Street that
borders a campus parking lot.
Crime Fight
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PCC-Cascade teams up for success
S ummer
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A be P roctor
The area around Portland Com
munity C ollege’s Cascade C am
pus in north Portland - particu
larly in the vicinity of the intersec
tio n o f A lb in a A v e n u e and
Killingsworth Street - has long
held a reputation as a rough neigh
borhood. But a new report released
by the Portland Police Bureau
shows that this reputation may
soon be a thing of the past.
D etails o f the extraordinary
progress made to reduce street crime
and other undesirable activity in the
north Portland community was made
public on Thursday during a news
conference attended by the police
bureau, campus officials and busi
ness owners and residents.
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Serious crimes like murder, ag
gravated assault, and robbery are
down 27 percent in the vicinity of
the campus from 2007 to 2011. Even
in the last year and a half, as violent
crime rose 9 percent citywide, it fell
by 16 percent along the Albina and
Killingsworth corridors.
The report largely attributes this
progress to the work of the Albina-
Killingsworth Safe Neighborhood
Commission, a community safety
group founded by Cascade Campus
President Algie Gatewood in 2006, of
which the police bureau is a member.
The commission heard from resi
d e n ts, stu d e n ts, w o rk ers and
businesspeople alike who shared a
concern about repeated incidents
of loitering, theft, drug possession
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and dealing graffiti and, sometimes,
gang violence.
Gatewood asked the community
to find ways to make the neighbor
hood a safer and more livable place.
He tapped local residents, business
owners, the police bureau, Jefferson
and R osem ary A nderson high
schools, and representatives from
government agencies in the area,
such as the Multnomah County Li
brary and TriMet. They began to
meet regularly, and the Albina-
Killingsworth Safe Neighborhood
Commission was bom.
“Since the commission began,
we have made tremendous strides
toward making this a safer, warmer,
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Added Enforcement on Flash Mobs
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C alendar
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A new protocol will send juveniles to detention if
they are caught stealing from stores or committing
thefts and robberies on transit as part of a social media-
organized criminal flash mob.
Local convenience stores and the Lloyd Center
Mall have been recent targets of flash mobs of young
people.
In the past, prosecutors would not pursue misde
meanor charges and police would not take the youth
to jail after they’re caught.
The new protocol by Multnomah County allows
police to make an immediate intervention and pursue
prosecutions.
The tougher enforcement was adopted to curb an
emerging problem. Once the youth are taken to juve
nile detention, authorities can detain the youth over
night, or contact their parents to try to ensure the
behavior is addressed at home.