The following sites provide helpful community safety resources as of February 2021.
www.portlandoregon.gov/civic/28395
This site has information in multiple languages on the city’s Neighbors Together program that offers training in ways to bring neighbors together and promote community-building. It’s the city’s attempt to refine and replace the old Neighborhood Watch model.
Some goals of the program are to help citizens:
- meet with their neighbors;
- identify community safety interests;
- collaborate on safety efforts for the common good;
- coordinate block parties, street art, and improvements;
- promote pedestrian and personal safety awareness;
- host a youth empowerment class;
- identify safe routes to school; and
- learn to navigate public safety systems.
www.portlandoregon.gov/civic
This is the main link to Portland’s Office of Community & Civic Life. From here you’re a click away from assistance to access local government services, contact free neighborhood problem mediation resources, file liquor and noise complaints, find your community safety coordinator, get a block party permit, get neighborhood-based demographic information, join city boards and commissions, and other actions. Community & Civic Life also offers free, targeted daytime training sessions to groups, including:
- workshops on personal safety;
- emergency preparedness;
- apartment safety tips;
- business crime prevention strategies;
- bicycle theft prevention;
- vehicle prowl prevention;
- ways to recognize and report illegal drug activity;
- crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED);
- homelessness and urban camping impact reduction program (HUCIRP); and other topics.
www.portlandoregon.gov/police/article/255743
This is a police bureau site with information on how to report crimes.
www.portland.gov/civic/communitysafety/resources
This broad, comprehensive city site includes dozens of links in multiple languages about home safety and crime prevention tips, COVID-19 resources, mental health resources, resources for seniors, homelessness resources, emergency preparedness ideas, and much more.
www.portlandoregon.gov/police/71673
This is the site where you can check on reported crime statistics by neighborhood.
www.portlandoregon.gov/toolkit/70039
The city’s One Point of Contact Campsite Reporting System is the mechanism citizens can use to report issues of illegal camping, litter, and/or related concerns within Portland.
www.portlandoregon.gov/bts/article/637433
This is the access point to the city’s new “PDX Reporter” app for informing pertinent city bureaus about problems and issues that are not police and emergency related, such as abandoned autos, debris in a roadway, graffiti, illegal parking, park maintenance issues, plugged storm drains, potholes, sidewalk trip hazards, sidewalk cafe violations, street lighting problems, work zone concerns, and other issues.