Oregon Key Issues

 

Website Web Hyperlink / Content Affiliation

Governor's Public Safety Review 2004

http://www.ocjc.state.or.us/PSReview/
GvrnrPSRvwLegEd20050126.pdf

The Governor of Oregon

Governor's Public Safety Review 2004

http://www.ocjc.state.or.us/PSReview/
GvrnrPSRvwLegEd20050126.pdf

The Governor of Oregon

Violent Crime Rate Comparisons

http://www.oregon.gov/CJC/docs/WebsiteGraphs.xls

Interactive Excel data sheet which allows the user to compare Oregon violent crime rates to violent crime rates in other states.

Oregon Criminal Justice Commission

SATF Oregon: The Attorney General's Sexual Assault Task Force

http://www.oregonsatf.org/index.html

Seeing a lack of improvement in sexual assault response as a concern, a group of victim advocates organized a 1999 statewide multidisciplinary gathering to assess how Oregon addresses adolescent and adult sexual assault. In May of 1999, 130 people spent two days at the Sexual Assault Summit assessing needs and identifying strategies for meeting them.

The top five issues identified as keys to improvement in the response to sexual assault are: the need for adequate, specific, and quality training for responders; more financial resources to improve local response; adequate, specific, consistent and useful data; and closer and more cooperative local collaboration in the response to sexual assault.

In July 1999, Summit organizers held a follow-up meeting in conjunction with the Oregon District Attorney Association conference. It was at this meeting that Attorney General Myers responded to requests from participants to organize a statewide effort and thus the Attorney General's Sexual Assault Task Force was formed. Since its formation the Task Force has established annual priorities in order to meet its objectives.

The Attorney General Of Oregon

Measure 11

http://oregon.gov/DOC/RESRCH/measure_11.shtml

Various data on Measure 11.

ODOC

Oregon Recidivism Rates

http://oregon.gov/DOC/RESRCH/docs/Recid.pdf

ODOC

The NSDUH Report:  Methamphetamine Use, Abuse, and Dependence: 2002, 2003, and 2004

http://oas.samhsa.gov/2k5/meth/meth.cfm

Although the number of past year and past month methamphetamine users did not change significantly between 2002 and 2004, the number of past month methamphetamine users who met criteria for abuse of or dependence on one or more illicit drugs in the past 12 months increased from 164,000 (27.5 percent of past month methamphetamine users) in 2002 to 346,000 (59.3 percent) in 2004 (Figure 1). The number of past month methamphetamine users meeting criteria for stimulant abuse or dependence increased from 63,000 (10.6 percent) in 2002 to 130,000 (22.3 percent) in 2004.

US Department of Health and Human Services; SAMSHA

Pre-and Post-BTC Pseudoephedrine Control: Oregon Meth Lab Stats

http://www.oregondec.org/OregonMethLabStats.pdf

Statistics on meth lab reduction in Oregon: 2003-2006

Oregon Narcotics Enforcement Division; Oregon State Police

The Developing Methamphetamine Problem: Selected CESAR Publications 1996-2006

http://www.cesar.umd.edu/cesar/pubs/20051219.pdf

Various CESAR research reports on methamphetamine use.

Center for Substance Abuse Research

Federal and Oregon State Methamphetamine Legislation

http://www.oregonmethwatch.org/Meth-Legislation-Index-041405_1.pdf

Pending and enacted Federal and State Legislation

Oregon Meth Watch

Community Methamphetamine Plans

http://oregon.gov/CJC/lpscc_page.shtml
#Local_Public_Safety_County_
Methamphetamine_Plans

Links to various county's plans (in pdf) to deal with methamphetamine use.

Oregon Criminal Justice Commission

Emergency Population Release and Jail Statistics report.  Multnomah County Sheriff's Office: Corrections Division

http://www.co.multnomah.or.us/
sheriff/stats_and_reports.htm

Jails – Part of the official website for the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office: Corrections Division

Multnomah County

Research and Data Links on Sexual Assault in Oregon and across the nation

http://www.oregonsatf.org/resources.html

SATF Oregon: The Attorney General's Sexual Assault Task Force

Report (Pdf): Public Perceptions of Stop Decisions by Oregon Police Officers

http://www.ocjc.state.or.us/Racial_Profiling/HB_2433_Survey.pdf

In 1997, the Oregon Legislature had adopted House Bill 2433. Section 6 of that bill required law enforcement agencies to collect data, adopt policies prohibiting the "stopping, detention and search of persons under ORS 810.410 when the action is motivated by the officer's perception of the person's race, color, sex or national origin and when the action would constitute a violation of the person's civil rights." The legislation also required that "a process be implemented within the agency to: ... facilitate the reporting of complaints" and to "receive and review complaints by persons who believe they have been stopped, detained or searched in violation of the agency's policy." Summaries of those complaints were compiled by the Asset Forfeiture Oversight Advisory Committee (AFOAC). After the initial reporting period, that effort was continued on a voluntary basis for two years, but then discontinued in favor of the traffic stop data collection effort under SB 415.

Oregon State Government; The Law Enforcement Contacts Policy and Data Review Committee

Project Safe Neighborhoods: Oregon

http://www.psnoregon.org/

Project Safe Neighborhoods is a nationwide initiative to reduce gun crime across America. The program combines the efforts of federal, state, and local agencies to make our communities safer. As part of these efforts, Project Safe Neighborhoods seeks to ensure that people committing any offense with a firearm face the most severe penalties, either through state or federal prosecution.

U.S. Department of Justice