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In part three of a three-part series of interviews on approaches to homelessness in Bend, Bend Police Chief Mike Krantz talks about how officers respond to calls involving people experiencing homelessness, how that work impacts levels of service elsewhere and much more.

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This article appears in Source Weekly December 16, 2021.

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Listen: Chief Mike Krantz on Law Enforcement’s Approach to Homelessness 🎧

by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon
December 22, 2021

<h1>Listen: Chief Mike Krantz on Law Enforcement’s Approach to Homelessness 🎧</h1> <p class="byline">by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />December 22, 2021</p> <p><span class="fdnDropCap">I</span>n part three of a three-part series of interviews on approaches to homelessness in Bend, Bend Police Chief Mike Krantz talks about how officers respond to calls involving people experiencing homelessness, how that work impacts levels of service elsewhere and much more.</p> <figure class="wp-block-image size-full aligncenter aligncenter"><a href="https://www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/bend_dont_break_podcast_-_mike_krantz.webp"><img src="https://www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/bend_dont_break_podcast_-_mike_krantz.webp" alt="" class="wp-image-22853" /></a></figure> <p><b><i>Listen now: </i></b> </p> <div class="wp-block-group newspack-embed-container align"> <div style="font-size: 10px;color: #cccccc;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-779383396" title="Source Weekly - Bend, Oregon" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc;text-decoration: none">Source Weekly - Bend, Oregon</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-779383396/law-enforcement-approach-to-homelessness-with-bend-pd-chief-mike-krantz" title="Law Enforcement Approach to Homelessness with Bend PD Chief Mike Krantz" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc;text-decoration: none">Law Enforcement Approach to Homelessness with Bend PD Chief Mike Krantz</a></div> </p></div> <p> Listen to parts one and two:&nbsp;</p> <div class="wp-block-group is-style-border fdn-in-article-related"> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Related</h3> </p></div> <div class="wp-block-group fdn-after-article-related"> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Related Stories</h3> </p></div></p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/listen-chief-mike-krantz-on-law-enforcements-approach-to-homelessness-15954521/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=22840&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/listen-chief-mike-krantz-on-law-enforcements-approach-to-homelessness-15954521/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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