Posted on 04/05/2019 4:34:56 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) -- There are now 120 sworn officer vacancies in the Portland Police Bureau. At a City Council meeting Tuesday, Chief Danielle Outlaw shared some of the challenges they face in hiring new people and filling those positions.
The assistant chief told the City Commissioners that out of more than 60 people who applied for public safety specialist jobs, only 3 passed background checks. The biggest reasons for their disqualification is past drug use or dishonesty in their application.
Police applicants who have used marijuana in the past year don't pass a PPB background check because marijuana remains illegal under federal law.
With so many vacancies in the PPB, some City Council members wondered if there should be fewer supervisors and more patrol officers.
"Is there a way to reconfigure your workforce to have more officers on the street rather than in supervisor or specialty units?" Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty asked.
"I'm sure there is a way to flatten the hierarchy," Outlaw said. "But the issue with that is to maintain accountability and chain of command."
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Who is testing the management?
Cops will avoid a bad department like the plague if possible. A department infested with politics is headed for disaster. My late uncle was a chief in our small town and a new mayor took office and one day the mayor came in and said i want to talk to you about two officers and he called their names and my uncle said good I was about to come to you about them. I want one fired for drug abuse on duty and the other for criminal behavior, stealing on the job. The mayor said you will not fire them, you WILL promote them. One gets me so many votes in this area and the other, a black officer, gets me votes in this area.
My uncle said sorry I can’t in good conscious promote these men, you will have to do it over my objections and the mayor did and my uncle had his time in and put in for retirement the next week. That department was later nearly destroyed from and FBI sting and several officers went to prison for using, buying and selling drugs on duty and for out right stealing some businesses blind.
Portland you treat your cops like crap and tie their hands, your barrel scraps will end up being horrible officers and your abuse complaints, with actual real abuse will sky rocket. You have your major and council to blame, good luck on the coming new paradigm in your city, the law of the jungle.
Or fear being caught in a lie, if the background check interviews friends.
From the same city that brought us Chief Moose, of DC sniper fame.
DAMN!!
you’re right
you’d think friends would know better but some don’t!
“Maybe some employers think that using MJ shows you might not have good judgement & also that you might do so again.”
The US Military will grant a TS/SCI under the very same circumstances.
I guess they don’t know what they are doing.
Recruit Antifa. They seem to already control the streets of Portland.
Ahh, Chief Moose! Another wonderful Affirmative Action rejectard...
Decent candidates avoid Portland. The city is too politically liberal for a decent cop to survive.
Even before weed was legal in Oregon, there were some pretty casual attitudes toward it. A neighbor used to sit in his car at the curb and get high all the time. One day, he found out that his wife was stripping, so he got drunk and got a DUII. When the State police booked him, they found a little weed in his pocket. They threw it in the trash. No money in it. The guy got the opportunity to go through diversion, and he took it. In his pre-diversion interview, he told the truth...that he rarely drank, but got high all the time. He told me he did it because he thought honesty was the best policy. Idiot.
lol
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