It looks like the new Portland Police Bureau Enhanced Community Safety Team is being kept busy – as shooting incidents kill, wound, and frighten East Portland neighbors …

After an unprecedented number of shootings, injuries, and deaths since June, 2020 – most of them in outer East Portland – see how the Portland Police Bureau hopes to stem the tide of bloodshed from shootings …

See why organizers call this 2021 event the ‘Winter Light non-Festival’ – and learn the East Portland locations that participated this year …

Here’s why an outer East Portland residential street was closed for a several hours, on Sunday …

Here’s what’s been learned about a commercial fire, at the edge of the Powellhurst-Gilbert neighborhood …

See how a wildly-driving tow truck operator, a shooting, and a knife combined to create a major ruckus in outer East Portland on Thursday …

There were many “Shots Fired” calls in outer East Portland this week. This one could have really been deadly. See how Portland Police Bureau officers deescalated the situation, and kept everyone safe …

Take a look at the astounding number of “Shots Fired” calls to which out Portland Police Bureau officers were called this week; two people were wounded …

Here’s why hundreds of outer East Portland neighbors in Hazelwood – and beyond – a are coming together, petitioning for crime reduction, on CHANGE.org …

Here’s why investigators are puzzling over this outer East Portland pedestrian hit-and-run death …

Take a look, and see what’s been learned about a single-family residence fire in outer East Portland this week …

Two of these incidents were in the Powellhurst-Gilbert neighborhood, whose residents wrote City Hall about the ‘shootings’ problem last week – and are still seeking answers – and help …