Portland DA cracks down on drug crimes as Seattle pulls back on enforcement
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Portland District Attorney Nathan Vasquez announces drug possession crackdown while Seattle backs away from prosecution, marking opposite approaches to addiction policy.
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Vasquez said the policy change follows a yearlong effort to give the county’s deflection program time to succeed — an effort he said ultimately fell short.
"The District Attorney wanted to give Multnomah County’s deflection program a chance to succeed, but after one year it was clear that it was failing," a spokesperson for Vasquez said.
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