“I want to see our crime rates in Portland go down and I want to increase police officers on the street so they can do community policing. We need safer streets, period.”

"I’m supporting this initiative because Portlanders want and deserve to feel safe. We've lost so many beloved businesses to shoplifting and disorder. That’s not right.”

“I'm an immigrant who saved and sacrificed to live in Portland. We all deserve to feel safe in our own neighborhood, and I want to feel safe when I come home from work late at night.”

“I’m supporting Safer Portland because our small businesses are at a breaking point. We do all we can to prevent violence and vandalism, but we can’t, nor should we have to, act as our own police. We need more community-based policing that helps deter crime.”

"Our neighborhood is losing our grocery store because of constant violent crime. Our community, especially the elderly, depends on it. My neighbors and I deal with drug use and dealing near our homes. We desperately need more community police."