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Attorney General Loretta Lynch will put Portland’s community policing strategies in focus during an
upcoming visit.
Community Policing Tour
Attorney General Lynch plans Portland visit
(AP) - Attorney General Loret-
ta Lynch plans to visit six cities,
including Portland, in the coming
months to highlight police depart-
ments she sees as role models for
law enforcement.
The locations were chosen be-
cause they embody a particular
trait of successful policing, such as
effective use of data, strong com-
munity relationships or a commit-
ment to oficer safety, Lynch said
Monday.
The irst visit is planned for
Thursday and Friday to Mi-
ami-Dade County in Florida,
where Lynch is scheduled to rec-
ognize the Doral police depart-
ment for its community policing
strategies. She’ll also host a youth
town hall and a community polic-
ing discussion in Miami, among
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other events.
The date of the Portland vis-
it has not yet been inalized, but
Lynch is scheduled to highlight
the city’s community policing ef-
forts and crime reduction during
her stop here.
“It really is our hope to high-
light the areas where police and
community members are sitting
down together and iguring out,
‘How do we all make this work?’”
she said.
The visits represent the second
phase of a community policing
tour that Lynch, a former federal
prosecutor in New York, began
last year after being sworn in as
the nation’s top law enforcement
oficial.
In that irst phase, she visit-
ed cities where police forces are
working to overcome troubled
relationships with their commu-
nities.
Now, the focus turns to depart-
ments that are seen as successful
in implementing “pillars” of po-
licing identiied in a White House
report last May. Each city on the
tour represents a different pillar,
which include building commu-
nity trust, community policing,
crime reduction and oficer train-
ing and education, Lynch said.
The initiative is part of a nation-
al discussion on police use of force
and effective law enforcement tac-
tics, a topic that’s taken on new ur-
gency amid a series of high-proile
police shootings of unarmed young
black men in places including Fer-
guson, Mo.; Cleveland; and North
Charleston, S.C.
Embracing Jeff’s Gains and Future
Self Enhancement, Inc., the social services
organization and public charter school serving
Portland’s black community, will host a commu-
nity-wide celebration honoring Jefferson High
School for recently achieving an 80 percent grad-
uation rate.
The celebration in the SEI auditorium, 3920 N.
Kerby Ave., on Wednesday, Feb. 10 at 6 p.m., will
feature a brief program to highlight the pivotal role
a partnership between SEI, Jefferson High School,
and the Cascade Campus of Portland Community
College has had on lifting Jefferson’s graduation
rate in ive years, from 55 percent to 80 percent.
Around 200 people including past alumni, current
students and families, and members of the commu-
nity at large are expected to attend.
Since Jefferson is the only predominantly Afri-
can-American high school in the state, there will
also be some discussion on the future of the school
and how Portland’s black community can rally
around it to make sure the school stays accessible to
African-American students.
Speakers will include Tony Hopson, SEI presi-
dent and chief executive oficer; Margaret Calvert,
Jefferson High School principal; and other staff
from SEI, Jefferson and PCC.