PORTLAND, OR — Polling conducted last month on behalf of business interests shows more than two-thirds of Portland voters would support a ballot measure requiring the city to maintain a police force at the same scale as other large U.S. cities—in effect, nearly doubling the number of sworn officers.
That concept was one of a half dozen floated to 600 voters in early April by polling firm DHM Research on the dime of downtown property owner Greg Goodman and Calbag Metals CEO Warren Rosenfeld, among others. Willamette Week first reported last month that the phone survey was in the field. DHM sent a memo to Goodman today, whose consultants then forwarded it to Willamette Week. It outlines one polling result, but not the others.