Police Chief Presentation on Traffic Enforcement

[George Rheault]

Tuesday at a Health & Human Services & Public Safety City Council Committee meeting near you...

https://portlandme.portal.civicclerk.com/event/8343/files/attachment/31284

[Derek M. Strout]

Thanks for the heads up, George. For some context on enforcement as it pertains to speeding citations, I recently received this updated report from the city’s analyst.

Derek

On Sat, Jun 6, 2026 at 11:19 AM George Rheault <george....@gmail.com> wrote:

Tuesday at a Health & Human Services & Public Safety City Council Committee meeting near you...

https://portlandme.portal.civicclerk.com/event/8343/files/attachment/31284

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[George Rheault]

Thank you Derek for adding to the data picture with your request.  Kelly Crotty I presume is the data analyst from whom you received this information (she is embedded in the Police Dept HQ).  

We should consider preparing a list of reasonable questions ASAP so that City Councilors are better prepared for this presentation (send them to the whole council and police chief ahead of time so they all can see them ahead of time and can digest/reframe them as their own).  

Respecting meeting time limits are often the reason why councilors do not press for more context and deeper understanding from these kinds of presentations but often it really is they have very little sense of what they are looking at to be effective questioners.   And there is also the unsavory side where they don't WANT to know further answers from the data for fear of opening up cans of worms and pandora boxes or just outright cowardice or deference to staff that deprives the public of the whole reason why we elect these folks in the first place (to ask the questions we would want asked if we were in their chairs).

We obviously cannot overwhelm the chief or the councilors for a single piece of a meeting agenda, but even if they can't get through them, perhaps it will set the stage for a deeper exploration later on (either a committee meeting fully dedicated to the subject or, better yet, a public meeting which will help surface more of the benefits, tradeoffs and resource issues surrounding better (more uniform and widespread) traffic enforcement and violation deterrence.  

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