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We need to be talking about the gang problem in Portland.  It's been over a year since the last show on gangs, and shootings are happening almost everyday.  The GET and HEAT police divisions are small in number and working overtime, to plug the longtime gap in the funding of outreach programs.  Today there was a brief mention of a domestic shooing last Friday, but none about the gang shooting earlier that same night that was a retaliation to a shooting the night before.  As measure 11 inmates are being released and new orphans are being created, we need to address this issue.

posted 3 years ago
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