THE CITY, OVER TIME
Portland police and fire dispatch activity
Public records, placed in context. Calls are reports, not confirmed crimes.
What PDX Signal showsPortland’s public Police and Fire dispatch records by call type, reported time, approximate location, and neighborhood—with historical patterns by hour, weekday, call type, and area.
The map shows the same dispatch records available in the keyboard-operable Records in this view list.
Color shows the broad category.
Fainter points are older in this time window.
When these calls were published
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Calls are reports, not confirmed events
Counts describe calls and public-safety workload, not confirmed crimes or a neighborhood safety score. Use the views together: present context, recurring timing, the longer annual direction, neighborhood-level service demand, and historical response-time variation.
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