Portland REI Sporting Goods Increases Security After Three Break-ins In 1 Week

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Portland REI location increases security
following three break-ins in 1 week

Nov 30, 2022         



According to the Portland Police Bureau
the number of burglaries, robberies, vehicle thefts and vandalism
are  at their highest in Portland since 2019
and the year is not over yet.

On the busiest shopping day of the year, a car crashed through the glass front doors of the REI in Portland's Pearl District. It is the store's third break-in one week, and the latest in a slew of robberies at Portland stores. The outlet reported that no employees were in the store at the time of the incident as it was closed for the company's annual "Opt Outside" day, REI's alternative to Black Friday. In an email to REI's employees obtained by the outlet, the store manager  said that after the latest incident, as well as two other break-ins  earlier in the week, they would be increasing security. The glass shipping door has been reportedly replaced with a metal one  and a security gate has been added as well as floodlights and overnight  guards. The store also placed a barricade on Johnson Street near the  store's front doors.

According to police data, car thefts and vandalism are at a four-year high in Portland's Pearl District. From January to October in 2019, the neighborhood saw 126 reported assaults, 35 vehicle thefts, and 139  incidents of vandalism. In 2022 during the same time period, the area  saw 197 assaults, 119 vehicle thefts, and 403 incidents of vandalism. Rains PDX, an iconic European designer outerwear brand that only had four locations across the US announced last week that the only store in Oregon is closing after owner Marcy Landolfo saw her business undergo its fifteenth  break-in in just a year and a half and she reached her "breaking point." Additionally, with just over a month left in 2022, Portland has already had a record 93 homicides eclipsing last year's record of 92 homicides, which shattered the city's previous record of 70 homicides in 1987. ... Many Portlanders have fled downtown for the suburbs or other states.

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