The Bayside neighborhood in Portland has accounted for nearly a third of the city’s arrests and about 40 percent of all overdoses citywide, according to Portland Police Chief Mark Dubois.

After a disturbing video showing open drug abuse, violence and public indecency in the Bayside neighborhood went viral earlier this year, the Portland City Council’s Health and Human Services and Public Safety Committee began receiving regular updates on crime statistics and police activity in the neighborhood from Chief Dubois.

Speaking to the Committee on Tuesday, Police Chief Mark Dubois said that there were 728 calls for service in the Bayside neighborhood October, slightly down from 731 in September.

However, the calls for service this year still remain about 14 percent higher than the number of calls from the neighborhood during the same period last year, Dubois said.

Police made 45 arrests in Bayside in October. In 2024, year-to-date arrests in the neighborhood total 587 — about 30 percent of the 1,985 total arrests this year citywide, according to Dubois.

“Probably the most notable, is about 40 percent of all overdoses occurred in Bayside, year-to-date,” the Portland Police Chief told the Committee.

As of the start of this week, out of 484 overdoses reported citywide in 2024, 184 occurred in the Bayside neighborhood.

Following Dubois’ presentation, City Councilor and Committee Chair April Fournier raised the issue of increased gun violence, both in Bayside and in Portland generally.

“One of the things that I think is consistently on my mind, and not necessarily just related to Bayside, but just we have had a number — or an increase in gun violence,” Fournier said.

“So I’m definitely sensitive to that, I know I’m hearing some of that from our constituents,” Fournier added. “We’ve seen a pretty big increase this year, not only in Bayside, but I think we’re not used to hearing about frequent shootings happening in Portland.”

In late October a man was charged with murder in connection to a shooting in the Bayside neighborhood that left a man dead after sustaining multiple gunshot wounds.

Dubois agreed that the city has seen an increase in gun violence, and would be providing specific data on gun violence to the Committee and their next meeting.

“We have seen an increase [in gun violence] — it’s citywide, not just in Bayside,” Dubois told Fournier.