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OMG: Occupy Portland Crime Rate up 550-800%.
Well, that's how our local newspaper might want you to react.

The Oregonian's Anne Saker reports on
"the spike in crime around the downtown camp".

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between Sept. 22 and Oct. 5,
the two weeks before Occupy Portland's march through the city,
police made 2 arrests for vandalism;
between Oct. 6 and Thursday, the first two weeks of the encampment,
there were 11 arrests for vandalism.

Two weeks before the march, police arrested 2 people for disorderly conduct;
in the two weeks after the march around the square,
police made 16 disorderly conduct arrests.

The police report covers the entire downtown business area,
bounded by I-405, the river, and Burnside (A).
Occupy Portland is camped in two city park blocks,
the "Chapman Square" at the center of the map below.

Unfortunately, the Oregonian did not bother to research or cite
the number of arrests in any other "10-block radius" of the city,
or details such as...

8 of 16 D.C. arrests were unrelated to Occupy Portland,
and others were for "interfering with police" while police were
"reclaiming Main Street" after the original OP march.
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