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   people convicted of criminal destruction to be required to meet with those   
   whose businesses they damaged, and perform public service.   
      
   Wheeler also wants the state legislature to enact tougher penalties for   
   repeat offenders, a request with which legal experts anticipate problems.   
      
   At least 61 people have been booked or cited by police at multiple   
   protests. The vast majority of those are not being prosecuted: KOIN 6 News   
   could only find nine repeat arrestees with open cases, and of those, only   
   one man was facing charges in two cases.   
      
   A spokesman for Wheeler said a person would be considered a repeat   
   offender based on arrests or prosecutions, adding that the mayor's office   
   hopes stiffer penalties will make it easier for the DA's office to   
   prosecute cases where someone has been arrested at multiple   
   demonstrations.   
      
   However, Juan Chavez with the Oregon Justice Resource Center called that   
   plan "unenforceable and unconstitutional" tough talk.   
      
   "(Arrests) are unproven crimes," Chavez said. "There's a process for this   
   through which a jury of your peers gets to decide whether or not you   
   committed a crime."   
      
   Even if such a policy was tailored just to convictions, it would be   
   reminiscent of three-strike laws and mandatory minimums, which Chavez said   
   are ineffective in stopping crime from happening.   
      
   "It doesn't do much other than fuel mass incarceration," he said. "That's   
   why people are out there protesting in the first place."   
      
   It's not clear how soon legislators could take up the mayor's proposal,   
   and no further details have been released regarding a possible meeting   
   between different law enforcement agencies. As of Tuesday morning, the   
   mayor had not been in contact with the district attorney regarding plans   
   for increased penalties either, according to a spokesperson for the DA's   
   office.   
      
   What is clear is that many people who live and work in Portland are "very,   
   very scared right now," Todd said. She compared the unrest to "organized   
   crime" and speculated that demonstrators have been using the cold winter   
   months to strategize.   
      
   "It's going to pick right back up in the springtime," she said. "They're   
   organizing right now, and they're getting stronger."   
      
   For Johnson, one of the worst parts is seeing the Black Lives Matter   
   movement stained by violence and destruction.   
      
   "What Blacks are going to find is we're going to find ourselves left   
   behind in this movement because people are going to get tired of it," he   
   said. "And at the end of the day, we'll be left again. And that's what's   
   sad for me."   
      
   KOIN 6 News is a media partner of the Portland Tribune. You can find their   
   story here.   
      
      
      
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