Crime-ridden blue city now hiring more police. Why they can’t get them on the streets fast enough
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The Portland Police Bureau is seeing a surge of applicants, but a backlog at the state's only training academy is keeping officers from hitting the streets.
The officer shortage has been blamed for unprecedented slow 911 response times. High-priority calls now wait about 20 minutes on average for a response, according to Portland Police Bureau data. Before 2020, that number was closer to 8 minutes. It's just a crush. It's really, really emotionally draining Hannah Ray Lambert is an associate producer/writer with Fox News Digital Originals.
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