<p>As riots raged in Portland, Oregon, over the summer of 2020, the Portland City Council last summer acceded to critics of the police department who wanted to defund the police, with Mayor Ted Wheeler <a href="https://www.wweek.com/news/2020/06/09/mayor-ted-wheeler-agrees-to-disband-the-portland-police-bureaus-gun-violence-reduction-team/">announcing</a> the Portland Police Bureau would dissolve its Gun Violence Reduction Team as the Council voted to cut $15 million from the police department. In the process, the city disbanded the 38-person gun-violence team.</p>
<p>But now that the city’s homicide rate is soaring, with 53 homicides already in 2021 — the record for Portland for an entire year is 70 in 1987 — and the city suddenly wants to resurrect a version of the Gun Violence Reduction Team, virtually no one wants to apply for the job. “Since 14 job openings were announced in May, only four police personnel have applied to work with the new version of Portland’s Gun Violence Reduction Team,” <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/portland-ore-cant-find-police-for-unit-to-fight-rising-murder-rate-11627896601">The Wall Street Journal</a> reported on Monday, adding, “None have yet been assigned.”</p>

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