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Municipal agency in Portland, Oregon, United States
Paid agitators at political demonstrations have been alleged in multiple contexts, but the available documents and reporting in the provided dataset show , while falling short of definitive, documente...
A months‑long series of protests at the Portland ICE facility began in June 2025 and continued into January 2026, drawing mostly small nightly demonstrations that occasionally swelled and produced con...
Local activists, small grassroots groups and loose coalitions—not a single formal leadership team—have driven the months-long protests at the ICE facility in Portland. Reporting identifies neighborhoo...
Portland residents are portrayed in recent reporting as divided about the police response to protests and violence: city officials and the Portland Police Bureau emphasize crime reductions and planned...
Law enforcement uses online “honeypots” and sting operations to detect and identify people seeking or distributing child sexual abuse material (CSAM); academic and agency sources say honeypots can col...
The protests in Portland during 2020 began as part of the national outpouring after George Floyd’s murder on May 25 and escalated over months due to recurring nightly demonstrations, clashes with loca...
Reporting from local and national outlets confirms videos and eyewitness accounts showing force used during recent Portland protests at the ICE facility — including at least one published video of a P...
Portland’s response to Oregon’s 2025 gun laws has been sharply divided: community-based violence-prevention groups and victims’ advocates have pushed for the bills as tools to reduce shootings and fun...
Portland’s adopted general fund budgets show the Public Safety service area — which includes the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) — receives the largest share of discretionary General Fund dollars; PPB al...
ICE publicly framed the October incidents as targeted enforcement actions against individuals it called “illegal aliens,” stressing public-safety rationales and claiming firearms and other violations ...
Portland’s 2025 approach mixes expanded police “missions” and data-driven directed patrols with growing investment in community violence-prevention programs such as Portland Ceasefire and the Service ...
Walmart closed its final Portland stores in March 2023, and company statements and many news reports link the decision to underperformance after a period of rising retail theft nationwide; Walmart’s C...
Federal agents were present at the Portland Labor Day–era protests and multiple official accounts and court filings say their tactics contributed to clashes; however, responsibility for the , with cit...
Two reliable pieces of evidence show there is no authoritative, contemporaneous count of how many people attended the “No Kings” event in Portland on October 18, 2025; contemporary reporting ahead of ...
Local law enforcement in Portland has begun administrative and procedural adjustments in response to recent Oregon gun laws—primarily the statewide ban on rapid-fire conversion devices and changes to ...
Federal officers have been embedded among crowds in multiple U.S. protests and riots in recent years, with documented instances ranging from plainclothes FBI agents at the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capito...
The FBI compiles crime statistics for cities like Portland primarily through voluntary data submissions from local law enforcement into federal systems and by using victimization surveys, but . Recent...
The immediate dispute centers on whether deploying the National Guard to Portland is necessary to protect federal property or whether it risks inflaming largely peaceful protest activity; recent offic...