Nike's Plan to Beef Up Security at MLK Store Squashed by Portland Mayor!

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler has asked Nike to reopen its shuttered community store in Northeast Portland “on a limited basis,” even though he says the city can’t meet the company’s request to detail off-duty police officers to provide security.

In his message to company executives, the mayor also revealed two broader strategies he thinks could help the sneaker giant and retailers like it minimize shoplifting and other crime along Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and in the surrounding Eliot neighborhood.

First, a plan to flood the area with extra public safety measures, similar to what the city recently rolled out in Old Town, the Central Eastside and a small but deadly pocket of the Madison South neighborhood near Northeast 82nd Avenue.

Second, a plea for Nike and other retailers to do more on their own to prevent and help prosecute retail theft.

Wheeler outlined his proposal in a letter last week, in which he reiterated some of the reasons behind the city’s dismal police staffing numbers and challenges clearing a backlog of new recruits who have yet to complete required training.

“I am confident that we can find a workable arrangement that facilitates the reopening of the MLK Community store, an important contributor to the surrounding neighborhood and to our city,” Wheeler wrote Feb. 24 to Sarah Mensah, Nike’s general manager for North America, and Joe Marisco, the company’s chief security officer.

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