About Safer Summer PDX

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Safer Summer PDX operationalizes the Mayor’s Emergency Declaration to Address Gun Violence by focusing on the short-term task of reducing gun murders and shootings and creating a foundation from which longer-term gun violence prevention work can be built. While Safer Summer PDX nests its work in the important longer-term work of upstream violence prevention and community equity transformation, the focus of this effort is to direct resources to garner near-term results. 

The Safer Summer PDX plan is a living document that is intended to be adaptable to the needs of the community and the demands of addressing gun violence. This plan will continue to be reviewed, refined, and improved upon with feedback received from the public, Council offices, and other partners.  

This plan employs both law enforcement and social services leaning into a community violence intervention model, that uses an evidence-based approach, to reduce local gun homicides and shootings.

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