1.Violent crime in Portland surged starting around 2020.

2.Homicides jumped from an annual average of ~26 (2016-2019) to ~81 in 2020-2023.

3.Car thefts in Portland reached among the highest per capita of major U.S. metro areas in recent years

4.Reports of vandalism also increased significantly in that period.

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5.Portland Police Bureau has had staffing shortages, exacerbating response times to high-priority calls

6. There have been cuts to parts of the police budget, including units that address property crimes and narcotics

7. Fill in Public concern over crime is high: large percentages of Portland residents disapprove of how crime is handled.ome text

8. Oregon’s violent crime rate rose by ~16.6% from 2019 to 2022.

9.Certain federal or state operations contend that nightly coordinated attacks on federal property have occurred during protests.

10. Some federal deployments are justified by law to protect federal property under statutes like 40 U.S.C. § 1315