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Child Abuse Investigations
Portland Police | 2020-04-23
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Sergeant Davis Kile: COVID-19 has affected us quite a bit. Unlike other investigative units, we really depend on our community partners for help, specifically the Child Abuse Hotline. That's where most of our referrals come from. Typically those get called in by teachers, childcare workers, counselo...
Sergeant Davis Kile: COVID-19 has affected us quite a bit. Unlike other investigative units, we really depend on our community partners for help, specifically the Child Abuse Hotline. That's where most of our referrals come from. Typically those get called in by teachers, childcare workers, counselors. That's how we're aware of most of the child abuse that takes place. Unfortunately as we've heard from our partners at DHS, their call load has decreased significantly and we are definitely seeing that. Just to put in some context, those numbers pre March 19th, we would see an average of 40 to 50 reports a day that was reported to the child abuse that relates to the city of Portland. After March 19th we're averaging about 10. That's a pretty significant decrease and we are aware of that. Lieutenant Tina Jones-Moderator: I just want to clarify that, you're saying unfortunately you guys are getting less. That doesn't necessarily mean that crimes are down, like all of a sudden child abuse went away, correct? Sergeant Davis Kile: That's correct. Myself and my unit, we believe that the child abuse is still taking place. Unfortunately the victims of these crimes are not ones to report the crimes themselves. That's why we depend on community members to see what's going on and make those reports and that's how we get made aware of that.
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