Category PUBLIC SAFETY
Salem police to present updated plate readers, crime reporting system to city council Monday
The Salem City Council Monday night will hear updates from the Salem Police Department about expanded license plate detectors, a new crime reporting system and revamped agency policies.
A behind-the-scenes look at Salem’s 911 dispatch center
Salem Reporter recently spent two hours at Salem’s 911 dispatch center, known as the Willamette Valley Communications Center, and sat alongside a 911 call taker and police and fire dispatchers as they worked.
Keizer woman guilty but insane for murdering son in 2017
A Marion County Circuit Court judge committed Amy Robertson, 46, on Wednesday to the Oregon State Hospital eight years after she strangled to death her 12-year-old son, Caden Berry.
Thursday evening fire burns Southeast Salem home, displacing 3 residents and pets
Three adults and their pets were displaced from a home off Southeast Sunnyside Road after a devastating fire Thursday evening.
Police arrest boy, 16, in pool hall stabbings that killed 1, injured another
Salem police Thursday night arrested a 16-year-old suspect accused of the stabbings that sent two young men to Salem Hospital with critical injuries early that morning. One man, Isac S. Rizo, 21, died at the hospital.
No injuries after 30 shots fired into NE Salem home
Salem police are investigating a shooting early Thursday morning that damaged a home on Northeast Sherry Court but left no one injured. No suspect has been arrested.
Springfield man convicted of manslaughter for crash that killed 2 in SE Salem
A jury on Wednesday found Terrance Quackenbush-Benson was high on an inhalant when he caused a Sept. 16 crash that killed Blanca Franco-Ramos and Heriberto Rangel-Rangel.
Stabbings at Salem pool hall leave 1 man dead, another injured
Detectives are investigating two early morning stabbings Thursday that killed a 21-year-old Salem man and left another injured. Police say the stabbings happened at a pool hall where a group of young men got into a physical altercation.
Expensive lawsuits against Salem police spiked city insurance rates. City services are footing the bill
City officials say two big trial losses and an expensive settlement – all related to police use of force – have triggered higher insurance rates, forcing city departments to pay more with budgets already stretched thin.