by Ty Davison | Aug 12, 2025 | News & Commentary
Rising crime, overdoses reflect pre-pandemic trends – not drug decriminalization – PSU study finds – Salem Reporter: Researchers from Portland State University’s Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice released their final report examining the impacts of...
by Ty Davison | Aug 8, 2025 | News & Commentary
This is the Pacific Northwest on Drugs-WSJA new study finds that Oregon’s and Washington state’s experiments with decriminalizing drug possession caused a surge in serious violent and property crime, especially in Portland and Seattle. The paper, a collaboration among...
by Ty Davison | Mar 2, 2024 | News & Commentary
The legislature is mildly re-criminalizing some drug use to the dismay of some progressive groups who seem inured to the increasing tragedy of fentanyl on the streets. Oregon’s saw 280 opioid overdose deaths in 2019, 956 in 2022, and we’re at 628 so far...
by Ty Davison | Jan 26, 2024 | News & Commentary
Latest data show overdoses continue to skyrocket in Oregon – Oregon Capital Chronicle: In 2019, 280 people died of a drug overdose in Oregon. Fatalities rose every year after, more than tripling by 2022, when 956 died. And last year, even more people died,...
by Ty Davison | Oct 31, 2023 | News & Commentary
Kotek plans to ask Legislature for money for Portland revitalization – Oregon Capital Chronicle: With about six weeks until Gov. Tina Kotek’s secretive task force presents its plan to revitalize Portland at an annual gathering of business leaders, Kotek...
