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Portland's 20 20 Police Reforms Were Achieved in Early June
Early june is also when most of portland's 20 20 police reforms were achieved. Under large pressure, both locally and from the nation wide beala movement,. The portland public schools superintendent decided to end the school resource officer programme opting instead for an increase spending on social workers, counsillors and culturally specific mentors for students. Also, a historically rasisd portland police unit was also disbanded. Alongside those small reforms, Portland also saw some negative change on the road to police accountability. Officers responding to protests were told they were allowed to cover both their name tag and badge number amid fears officers would be doxed.