Portland is one of at least four cities - among America’s 50 largest cities - without a team of police officers dedicated to proactive traffic enforcement during the entirety of its shifts, a KATU investigation has found.

Our reporting found at least 37 agencies in those cities have either a dedicated traffic enforcement team or patrol officers who provide proactive traffic enforcement during their shifts. This includes some agencies with over 100 sworn members dedicated to enforcement.

Despite speed racers, street takeovers, and sideshows becoming more common, the Portland Police Bureau repeatedly says it is unable to adequately respond due to staffing and the number of officers required to respond to events like that.

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A Baltimore man who pleaded guilty to torching his ex-girlfriend’s home said he was surprised by a plea deal he received, saying it sends the wrong message to criminals in the city. 

"I was just charged with 18 different counts, that was dropped to 10, that was dropped to one. When I shouldn’t be out right now. I disrupted somebody’s life. I traumatized somebody because of how I felt in a situation," Luther Trent said, according to WBFF. "Personally, yes, I want to be out but principally, no I shouldn’t be out because I could have done a lot more damage than I did. I was expecting to get time. People who were in that situation, they should expect to get time."

Trent pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree arson after setting his ex-girlfriend’s house on fire while she and her two roommates were inside in May of last year. He was released from jail after serving fewer than six months due to a plea deal from the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office. 

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Accusations and denials continue to fly in the Portland City Council race between incumbent Jo Ann Hardesty and challenger Rene Gonzalez after Gonzalez’ campaign headquarters was vandalized for the second time in a month.

The Gonzalez campaign said recent comments Hardesty made calling his staff Republicans has incited political violence toward them.

The Gonzalez campaign sent Hardesty’s office a cease-and-desist letter about her comments on his staffers and his ideology.

During the KOIN 6 News debate between the candidates, Hardesty said, “My opponent has only worked with Republican folks, all his staff are Republican folks, they’ve only worked for other Republican people who have been elected.”

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As Portland residents have started speaking out against far-left politicians over the homeless crisis and crime surge fueling an exodus from the city, a local real estate broker is describing the difficulty of offloading these for-sale properties.

"A lot of these spaces now are occupied by camps, and a lot of the homeowners now have changing circumstances," Dwell Realty broker George Patterson said on a "Mornings with Maria" panel Wednesday.

According to the housing market expert, homeowners and potential buyers are "full of concerns" about the growth of homeless camps within residential neighborhoods, and it’s also causing a pricing shift.

"They're looking at their lives and wondering, ‘How long do I continue to live here?’" Patterson noted. "And they're saying, ‘Should I live here? Should I find a home somewhere else?’ And they're picking somewhere else."

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Portland car theft victims are banding together to take on the crime crisis by volunteering to help reunite people with their stolen vehicles.

"I started a Facebook group called PDX Stolen Cars and it took wings of its own from there just through word-of-mouth," volunteer organizer Titan Crawford said on Monday's "Fox & Friends."

Crawford, who told Steve Doocy he founded PDX Stolen Cars after using social media to find a stolen vehicle's rightful owner, said the effort has experienced unprecedented success, garnering nearly 12,000 members.

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Local officials were set to gather on Wednesday in San Francisco's Noe Valley Town Square to celebrate their latest win: a single public toilet that will cost as much as $1.7 million to build and won't be completed until 2025. 

But the celebration was canceled after a San Francisco Chronicle columnist highlighted the "mind-boggling" and "maddening" details of the project. 

California Assemblyman Matt Haney told the newspaper that he now considers the price tag "inexplicable."

"When Rec and Park first told us the number, it sounded shockingly high to me," Haney told the San Francisco Chronicle. 

"I’m glad that Noe Valley will at some point get a bathroom, but it shouldn’t cost this much, and it shouldn’t take this long, and I’m angry about it. … It’s not something I want to celebrate right now."

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After years of unsanctioned camping, the City of Portland, Oregon, has cleared the Big Four Corners Natural Area.

KATU was there when cleanup crews pulled in two weeks ago and tracked the progress for days. They pulled out more than 150 stolen cars, tons of trash, and even live pigs from the area. It was one of the most extensive camp cleanups in the city's history, and the damage left behind is shocking.

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PORTLAND, Ore. — It’s 3:55 on a Thursday afternoon in the Mall 205 parking lot. I’m watching through the front windshield of our white Ford Explorer as unsuspecting shoppers zip in and out of the Target store and nearby Home Depot. 

The shopping mall, located near Interstate 205 in Southeast Portland, attracts a mix of construction workers, everyday shoppers and homeless people from nearby encampments.

I’m on the lookout. I want to find out how easy it is for shoplifters to steal in Portland and then see what happens to all that stolen merchandise.

Police, prosecutors, retailers, private security and neighbors complain shoplifting or organized retail crime is a citywide epidemic — largely fueled by drug addiction. Criminals are literally stealing merchandise off store shelves and walking out the front door with little or no fear of being arrested or prosecuted.

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According to a new report from the Seattle Auditors Office, there has been an alarming rise in deadly methamphetamine overdoses, leading city officials to ask what can be done to stop it.

The annual number of overdose deaths from meth has gone from 98 per year to 365 per year over the last five years. So far in 2022, there have been 318 meth overdoses in Seattle.

Overdose, suicide, homicides near record highs according to report from Medical Examiners office

A racial disparity can also be seen in the overdose rates. Overdoses for Black people have increased 255% and overdoses for American Indians increased 233%, while meth overdoses among white people increased 115%. This is consistent with national figures on meth overdoses.

The audit also highlights how much the overdose crisis impacts the homeless community, with an estimated 74% of all meth overdoses believed to be people experiencing homelessness.

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Apple has started work on a major overhaul of its downtown Portland store, with a new design that appears more resistant to vandalism. But people familiar with the company’s plans say work won’t be done until sometime after the holidays.

Apple’s downtown store has been obscured by imposing metallic fencing since February 2021. The fences protect the store’s signature tall, glass panels from vandalism but have become a symbol of Portland’s inability to restore normal functions after the upheaval that accompanied the pandemic and the protests that rocked downtown in 2020.

Apple unveiled the planned facade in a meeting with the Downtown Neighborhood Association in May. It features a “storefront security enclosure” that consists of dozens of clear, polycarbonate panels that form a barrier in front of the store’s glass walls.

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