Portland State University (PSU) recently announced that starting this fall, its public safety officers will patrol the campus unarmed, as part of the university’s initiative to “re-imagine campus safety.”
The move comes as protests, often deteriorated into violent assaults against local and federal law enforcement officers and property, have continued in Portland, Oregon, for nearly 80 nights following the death of George Floyd. Violent crimes have also soared across the city, with the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) investigating 15 deadly shootings and stabbings in July—the city’s highest number of single-month homicide investigations in three decades.
