Portland police chief reacts to this weekend's shooting horror, stresses recruitment for new gun violence unit
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Portland’s police chief reacted Monday to this past weekend’s record-breaking gun violence, again stressing the need for his department to recruit officers for its newly resurrected gun violence unit, which over the summer saw little interest from cops a year after the defund police movement.
"The ongoing tragedy of gun violence is on my mind tonight after a terrible weekend of violence in our city. A double murder this weekend. Nineteen shootings in 54 hours. Stunning," Lovell tweeted Monday.
"I know this violence causes trauma for our whole community, and our first responders are no different," the chief in Oregon’s largest city wrote. "I want to acknowledge the incredible work from PPB members who responded, investigated, made arrests, and seized illegal guns.
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