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Former Portland Mayor Tom Potter has endorsed Mike Schmidt for the 2024 Multnomah County District Attorney’s race.

Mr. Potter served as mayor of Portland from 2005 to 2009. Previously, he served Portland for 27 years as a police officer, including serving three years as Chief of Police for PPB.

“As DA, Mike has focused on our most pressing public safety challenges like gun violence and car thefts. At the same time he is implementing much needed reforms to address transparency, accountability, an

“I still believe connecting people to treatment is the right thing, but we also have to preserve our public spaces for everybody, and right now that’s not happening,” he said in an interview with The Oregonian/OregonLive.

DA Mike Schmidt said his office is also working with OHSU on a homicide review committee to study ways to intervene before someone commits a homicide.

In the interview, DA Schmidt discusses some of Multnomah County's most pressing problems and how his office is addressing them.

Nearly $800,000 from the city and Multnomah County will go to hire two special teams of prosecutors and investigators to build cases against people accused of chronic retail theft and car heists plaguing Portland, District Attorney Mike Schmidt announced Monday.

A rise in crime during the pandemic across most of Oregon’s largest cities – including Portland – is abating, according to a new state analysis of preliminary federal crime data.