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Troutdale advisory panel reviews law-enforcement report, flags CAD and reporting discrepancies
Summary
At its June 5 meeting the Troutdale Public Safety and Equity Advisory Committee reviewed monthly law-enforcement statistics (noting two recent shootings and a retail-theft operation), pressed staff on CAD outages and dashboard/reporting mismatches, and asked for reconciled records and another month of data.
Troutdale’s Public Safety and Equity Advisory Committee on June 5 reviewed the department’s monthly activity report, heard updates on two weekend shootings near the airport, and pressed law-enforcement staff to explain discrepancies between the CAD-based activity log and the online dashboard.
An unnamed law‑enforcement presenter told the committee that reported assaults rose to 10 in the month under review, up from six the prior month, while reported thefts fell to 24 from 34 and traffic accidents fell to 28 from 35. The presenter said the packet now includes Troutdale‑specific online‑reporting statistics and explained that online reports do not automatically generate CAD entries unless they are approved and coded as NIBRS‑reportable incidents.
On the shootings, the presenter said two incidents occurred over the weekend near the airport: a dispute on the Chok Chok Trail in which two people shot one another (both survived; one with significant injuries) and a separate incident in which a parked vehicle near the airport was struck by multiple rounds; detectives are continuing both investigations. The presenter also described a recent retail‑theft operation at Target, Kohl’s and the Allen Law site that led to 10 custodial arrests, recovery of more than $1,000 in merchandise and one recovered stolen vehicle.
Committee members focused much of their attention on data integrity. Mary Howe told the group she counted roughly 518 calls in April’s log but saw only 43 written reports on the state dashboard and estimated about 127 incidents she believed should have had written reports. The presenter and officers described intermittent CAD outages and a recent major CAD software upgrade that required a rollback; an officer identified as Nick said the system had been down intermittently for shifts, which can require manual entries and lead to errors in timestamps and durations.
“We had 10 custodies, over 1000 dollars in merchandise recovered,” the presenter said when summarizing the retail‑theft mission. On the CAD upgrades the presenter said, “Our CAD system…went through a major upgrade…and we had some issues…they ended up having to roll it back to the previous version while they worked out the kinks.”
The committee requested that staff return with reconciled statistics showing the number of processed, state‑reportable reports for the month (so-called record statistics after cold coding and processing), another month of the new Troutdale‑specific online data, and clarification about what the dashboard counts include. Members also asked for clearer page numbers and a heat‑map or visual filter to better identify hot spots in the city.
The committee did not take formal policy action on the report but scheduled follow‑up: staff will provide the requested reconciled records and additional explanation at the next meeting.
