A new report shows police response times to high-priority calls in every part of the city are well over the Portland Police Bureau’s strategic target of responding to 75% of such calls in under 10 minutes.
Layla Decker, a physics and music student at the University of Portland, analyzed some 50,000 high-priority calls from 2025. Decker found that the average response time in every single census tract in the city (census tracts are designed by the Census Bureau to approximate neighborhoods and group residents with relatively similar characteristics) is several minutes over PPB’s goal.
According to Police Bureau data, Decker tells WW, police’s average response time across the city for high-priority calls was 21 minutes…