PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — It’s time for some stats about stolen vehicles in Portland. These stats may surprise you.
Since March 2022, there’s been a 63% drop in the number of reported stolen vehicles in Portland, police said in a statement Saturday evening. In that same time frame, there have been 53 coordinated law enforcement missions that recovered 474 stolen cars, arrested 564 people, recovered 84 illegal guns. And the data-driven techniques used by law enforcement are responsible in large part for the improved ratio of stops/recoveries.
The 53rd mission, on Friday night, resulted in 10 vehicles recovered out of 16 stops, 5 people in custody, 7 warrants serviced, 4 vehicles that tried to flee and then 2 pursuits, plus one gun seized…