O'Dea III added six police officers to GET and a non-sworn crime analyst, to assist with the effort to address gang violence. ![]() In the past five years, GET has investigated nearly 600 violent crimes associated to gang activity:ΔΆ015 - 121 (through 09/01/15 - compared to 89, same time, in 2014) This number is expected to rise and exceed 2014 (139 total) and 2013 (145 total) by year's end. So far this year, officers assigned to the Tactical Operations Division (which includes GET, the Gun Task Force and the multi-jurisdictional Metro Gang Task Force) have seized 137 firearms as evidence in criminal cases. While it is not possible to accurately compare 2015 to the mid-1990s, when gang violence was rampant in the City of Portland, we know that this year communities are experiencing gunfire on a regular basis. This exceeds all previous years in which this type of record has been kept by the Portland Police Bureau, and there are still four months to go in the year. In 2015, the Portland Police Bureau's Gang Enforcement Team (GET) has responded to investigate 121 incidents of gang violence, with the overwhelming majority of these incidents involving gunfire. Posted on FlashAlert: September 2nd, 2015 3:40 PMDownloadable file: GANG VIOLENCE INVESTIGATIONS SURPASS PREVIOUS RECORDS - COMMUNITY HELP NEEDED TO STOP THE VIOLENCE (PHOTO) This could have been stopped over 30 years ago. The gangs won't stop until the people get fed up enough to make government stop it, or the citizens just do it themselves. They cannot get those passed with putting the fear into the people. Watch now in the near future there will be another tax levy coming down for Police or Jails. ![]() They actually could stop it but they do not. We get the reports daily and there is a shooting every day if not more than one in North and NE Portland, Gresham, Troutdale.
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