A“disaster.” A “radical experiment in lawlessness.” A “five-alarm fire of drug abuse, addiction and death.” This is a taste of the hyperbolic reaction to Oregon’s three-year-old law that decriminalized drug possession. The criticism was so intense that the state legislature voted las...
particularly my childhood one, Lithgow, in Augusta, I probably wouldn’t be a mystery writer, or any kind of fiction writer. I’m always astounded at how hard librarians work, how committed they are to bringing good programing and events to their town. In many cases, the library...
CNBC used public record requests and law enforcement sources to obtain crime statistics and 911 call data for 21 Target stores in New York City, Seattle, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Portland, Oregon — the four areas where the retailer closed stores. The data includes the nine stores Tar...
An eclectic mix of activists take a stand to protect an old growth forest from logging at Warner Creek in the Willamette National Forest of Oregon, blockading the logging road and repelling the State Police. Over months a community builds around the illegal blockade as it develops into the Casc...
Similarly, Hodgen and Wuschke (2023) find that parks in Portland Oregon tend to have a concentration of drug crimes in their vicinity, but this is the only crime Portland's parks might stimulate. Despite the corpus of research indicating fringe banking establishments increase crime in their ...
was posted on April 16, 2025. The greatest challenge that I face in life is time management. I am such a pantser that it borders on Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. I start doing something, and something else catches my attention, and then it’s “Hello, Rabbit Hole!”and down it I go!
The same can not be said about the state of Oregon; the number of forcible rapes reported in Oregon since 2002 has remained between 1,140 and 1,283 each year, for the last ten years. The reason behind the steady decline in forcible rape crimes reported in California could be due in ...
James Woods Slams Obama Over Oregon School Shooting Reaction Actor James Woods has ripped into President Obama over the chief executive’s response to the deadly shooting at Oregon’s Umpqua Community College. The “Once Upon a Time in America” star took to Twitter and lambasted the president ...
On the other hand, 311 calls are a potential source of information about physical disorder in a neighborhood (Wheeler, 2018). The use of 311 data in criminology research has been theoretically underpinned by its association with “broken windows theory”.2 Physical disorder has been hypothesised ...
They also have more than 100 Student Police Aides who patrol the campus, work as contract security personnel, provide walking escorts, control special events, or aid in traffic direction. Corban University Salem, Oregon This is a private Christian university in Oregon that provides roadside assistanc...