Lents neighbors interested to learn details of TriMet’s security improvements

INCLUDES MEETING VIDEO | How safe is it to ride on TriMet? Discover the facts about what this transportation agency has been doing, and the results they say they’ve achieved …

Guests are invited to dine on savory ‘street tacos’ with all the fixings, cream puffs, and banana bread, before the June, 2025 Lents Neighborhood Livability Association meeting gets underway.

Story and photos by David F. Ashton

The summery weather didn’t divert 18 people from attending the June 12 meeting of the Lents Neighborhood Livability Association (LNLA), up on Mt. Scott.

As is their custom, the LNLA provided a light supper and snacks for attendees before the meeting, which also allows them time to converse with each other as they sat at tables.

Attendees listen intently as they learn about TriMet Security improvements.

After routine announcements, David Potts introduced the primary guest speaker – TriMet Executive Director of Safety & Security Andrew Wilson – and those accompanying him: Kittie Kong, TriMet Community Affairs/82nd Transit Project; and Miles Pengilly, Director, Government Affairs.

Introducing himself and the program he manages, it’s TriMet Executive Director of Safety & Security Andrew Wilson.

TriMet’s Director of Safety & Security Andrew Wilson began by informing the guests that there are five separate groups composing TriMet’s Safety and Security organization:

Transit Police
Transit Security Officers
Customer Safety Supervisors
Customer Safety Officers
Safety Response Team members

After describing the scope and work of each of these teams, Wilson shows graphics illustrating how TriMet’s Safety and Security’s workforce has doubled since 2022.

Wilson then told how assigning more “people on the platforms” – and using more technologically-sophisticated video surveillance equipment – has reduced crime, and improved safety.

See the entire presentation, and listen on the informative question-and-answer session in this video produced by the LNLA:

UPCOMING at the July 10 LNLA meeting: Crime and Punishment?
Their live and in-person meeting is from 6:30 until 8:30 p.m. A light dinner will be served from 6:30 to 7 p.m.

Join with neighbors at the July 10 Lents Neighborhood Livability Association meeting.

This month, their guest speakers will be Multnomah County District Attorney Nathan Vasquez, and Deputy District Attorney Kelly Burris – and it’s being titled, “Crime and Punishment?”

It will take place at the Community Connection Center, located on the grounds of New Hope Church, at 10603 SE Henderson Street. [Enter through the church’s front doors, turn right, go down the first hallway. Signs will point the way.] For more information, email lnla2018@gmail.com.

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