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I lived in SE Portland for years. There was a psychotic person camping on our street who me and neighbors reported many, many times. Police did stop by a couple times to offer her a women's shelter or a hotel room, but she refused. So I mean, reporting is good and all, but it's clearly not enough.
Oh I get it, things were especially bad when Jo Ann Hardesty, and her predecessor Chloe Eudaly, were in charge of PBOT. They would simply deprioritize or not respond to those reports at all. Had our coward mayor just removed them from PBOT leadership things wouldn't have been as bad for as long.
Nowadays, PBOT responds within 2-3 days. You can see on the city's arcgis map where reports are, how long they've been there and how many duplicate reports there are.