<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=15t8Yx_0lQzRyeg00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=15t8Yx_0lQzRyeg00" width="1280" height="852" ></figure><p>Fourteen months after the city <a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2022/01/portland-police-bureaus-new-focused-intervention-team-hits-streets-to-address-gun-violence.html">deployed a new police unit to try to quash shootouts and gunfire,</a> Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler has largely rejected a series of tweaks suggested by the city auditor for the Focused Intervention Team.</p><p>In a <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23719496-portland-mayor-ted-wheeler-letter-to-city-auditor-simone-rede?responsive=1&amp;title=1">letter</a> to City Auditor Simone Rede, Wheeler said it would be “incongruous” to apply rehashed recommendations from a 2018 audit of the disbanded Gang Enforcement Team to the new team.</p></div></body>

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Portland mayor rejects auditor’s recommendations for police team targeting gun violence

Fourteen months after the city deployed a new police unit to try to quash shootouts and gunfire, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler has largely rejected a series of tweaks suggested by the city auditor for the Focused Intervention Team. In a letter to City Auditor Simone Rede, Wheeler said it would...