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Portland Police collects 1/4 of a billion dollars every year.
For that:
They don’t respond to 911 calls:
They don’t do traffic enforcement:
They don’t have a gang/gun violence taskforce:
Even the bike theft team is gone (after having one of their own bikes stolen).
So what are they doing with 1/4 billion a year?
Hopefully getting fired.
It sounds like they’re already on strike. Doesn’t leave much room for negotiation.
Sounds like it is time to start recording your family get togethers.
Make no mistake - the policing situation in Portland is 100% political, from the police side. Policing is AOK in the more conservative areas of the metro area - the rest of the city is intentionally left to rot despite no actual reduction in funding or capabilities. Portland in media became a “liberal stronghold” and our (naturally) right-wing police force (which have colorful and long-standing local history with regional white nationalist groups) have decided to make their political statement by selectively performing their job duties to attack liberals.
I have family that’s a part of this shitfest, on the LEO side. The shit they say after a few drinks on Thanksgiving is disgusting. The issues plaguing Portland are 100% intentional by the police. They view themselves as “teaching Portland a lesson about their liberal government” and boast about how they’ll drive past dangerous and criminal events if it looks to them like it’s just a liberal or undesirable “getting what they voted for”.
There are private groups to help you track down and (sometimes forcefully!) recover your stolen car in the city, because if you call the police to report a theft, they’ll wait until you tell them what part of the city you’re from and if it’s not the conservative areas they’ll just tell you they can’t do anything and hang up on you. No report, nothing. They’re well aware that this lack of report number impacts your ability to make insurance claims, by the way - another chuckling boast over Thanksgiving when I asked.
They won’t stop until they “feel respected” again. To them, this means zero oversight, unlimited budget, no questioning, no consequences, and conservative leadership over the city. The disgust I feel when I see our “public servants” now after being educated on their perspective is alarming even to me.
Their tear gas budget is staggering as well
Apparently the hollywood copganda isn’t enough anymore.
Get rid of warrior training.
It doesn’t matter of your views on policing in general. Love cops. Hate cops. Portland had a serious problem. The stories I have been told are insane.
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Hi there, I live here in Portland. They tried with Portland Street Response, to try and help manage homeless and mental illness responses in a manner more constructive than assaulting them and burning tax dollars on overnight jailing them (as was SOP prior to this) but it’s been difficult because when PSR does need to elevate a more dangerous or criminal situation to the actual police, the actual police refuse to respond because they’re offended by PSR’s mere presence. To make matters worse, PPB (Portland Police Bureau) has been so butthurt over PSR that they refuse to answer any call involving the homeless or mentally ill. They were not directed to do so, it is a tantrum over “being defunded” (they were not, really. 4% of their budget was reallocated to PSR and other programs for the first quarter of their existence. funding is currently at all-time highs, but they continue perpetuating the lie to justify their continued politically-motivated inaction).
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