{"id":9541,"date":"2023-09-12T09:51:30","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T16:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=9541"},"modified":"2023-09-12T09:51:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T16:51:30","slug":"nike-closing-flagship-portland-store-due-to-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=9541","title":{"rendered":"Nike Closing Flagship Portland Store Due to Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Oregon-based sports shoe giant Nike has announced it will close its flagship store in Portland for safety and security reasons.\u00a0 Kristine de Leon of the Oregonian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/business\/2023\/09\/nike-to-permanently-close-ne-portland-factory-store-business-district-says.html?outputType=amp\">reports<\/a> that last February Mayor Ted Wheeler turned down the company&#8217;s request to dispatch off-duty police officers to the store, which opened in 1984, to beef up security in the crime-ridden Northeast Portland business district.\u00a0 Wheeler said that an officer shortage at the city&#8217;s police department was the reason.\u00a0 Portland was at the center of the defund-the-police movement spearheaded by Black Lives Matter during the George Floyd riots in 2020.\u00a0 Since then officers have retired or moved to other counties leaving the city with the smallest police force in 30 years.\u00a0 Crime in the city has skyrocketed since the riots, setting homicide records over the past two years.\u00a0 Nike was a major contributor to Black Lives Matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oregon-based sports shoe giant Nike has announced it will close its flagship store in Portland for safety and security reasons.\u00a0 Kristine de Leon of the Oregonian reports that last February Mayor Ted Wheeler turned down the company&#8217;s request to dispatch off-duty police officers to the store, which opened in 1984, to beef up security in the crime-ridden Northeast Portland business district.\u00a0 Wheeler said that an officer shortage at the city&#8217;s police department was the reason.\u00a0 Portland was at the center of the defund-the-police movement spearheaded by Black Lives Matter during the George Floyd riots in 2020.\u00a0 Since then officers have retired or moved to other counties leaving the city with the smallest police force in 30 years.\u00a0 Crime in the city has skyrocketed since the riots, setting homicide records over the past two years.\u00a0 Nike was a major contributor to Black Lives Matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Nike Closing Flagship Portland Store Due to Crime - Crime &amp; 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