"The city had 'diligently been working towards a level of preparation that [Day had] not seen in over thirty years of service,' and it would be ready for election day protests."
"Days before the 2024 election, after weeks of publicized hyper vigilance by local police, businesses downtown began boarding up their windows in anticipation of election night violence."
"PPB logged 1,047 hours of overtime-a substantial increase from the average monthly range of about 730 overtime hours...This extra staffing cost roughly $1.2 million."
"...the comparison to 2016 was unavoidable. I remember doing this a few years ago...hundreds of Portlanders took to the streets on election night, marching"
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