law enforcement

It’s disgusting, but take a look anyway

Written March 6th, 2025 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 18 responses.

Let’s take a quick little tour of what might qualify as ground zero of Albany vandalism. Not many people go there, which is probably why it often looks the way it did on Thursday afternoon.

Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: fence damage, graffiti, law enforcement, Periwinkle Path, police patrols, racist markings, vandalism, vulgarity

Offender exclusion zone: Why still have it?

Written March 25th, 2023 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 9 responses.

Five years after it was adopted, Albany’s law on excluding “persistent” criminals from the central part of town has proved either useless or unnecessary. Either way, it is not being applied.

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: Central Albany, crime, enhanced enforcement, exclusion zone, law enforcement, persistent crime

Two smiling faces in law enforcement

Written March 24th, 2022 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 3 responses.

It was a coincidence that, for different reasons, two leaders of mid-valley law enforcement were together in the Albany council chambers Wednesday night. I made use of the occasion to take their picture.

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: Albany Police Chief Marcia Harnden, law enforcement, Linn County Sheriff Michelle Duncan, Linn County Sheriff's Office, mental health in law enforcement, police vehicles, Wire Works LLC

Albany’s exclusion-zone law likely will stay

Written June 15th, 2021 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 6 responses.

The Albany City Council has shown no sign of wanting to go along with a request to repeal the city’s “enhanced law enforcement area,” a law it passed three years ago to keep persistent petty criminals out of the central part of town.

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: Central Albany, enhanced law enforcement area, law enforcement, persistent violations, petty crime

‘Enhanced enforcement area:’ What signs mean

Written May 4th, 2021 by Hasso Hering

Comments: one response.

The city council has asked for a report on Albany’s so-called Enhanced Law Enforcement Area, including how often it has been enforced. Another question might be: Does the public know what or where it is?

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: Albany police, Central Albany, enhanced law enforrcement, law enforcement