Posted on 08/04/2018 8:44:21 AM PDT by Mariner
Danielle Outlaw, a 19-year veteran of the Oakland Police Department who started as a police explorer when she was in high school, will serve as Portland's next chief, only the third outsider named to lead the Police Bureau.
Her appointment Monday by Mayor Ted Wheeler comes at a critical time when community and police relations are strained and the force faces a daunting list of federally mandated reforms.
The mayor said Outlaw shares his goals of improving bureau relationships with Portland's communities of color, increasing diversity on the 950-member force and embracing equity.
Outlaw, 41, who has served as a deputy chief since 2013, rose to the top of a pool of 33 candidates who applied for the job. She becomes the first African American woman to head the bureau.
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Someone named Outlaw is the chief of police???
>>>If she is serious about the police job<<<
Well, the proof will be in the pudding.
As of this moment, she is an AA pick and they went out of their way to identify her as that first and foremost.
Same old same old.
BAM! There it is.
If she’s still in office by November, she’s going to have some serious speeches to make to attack the President and defend standing down to leftist rioters after Election Day.
Top Notch!
“The mayor said Outlaw shares his goals of improving bureau relationships with Portland’s communities of color, increasing diversity on the 950-member force and embracing equity.”
apparently the goal of actual law enforcement is far down the list since it wasn’t mentioned ...
One of five black residents of Portland and now she is CHief of Police
Nonsense.
There are several hundred blacks in Portland.
As a close friend, who is a Black pastor, would say, she is a woman of color, not African American. Of course many of us could be described a man or a woman of color, depending upon our ancestry.
No one born in the USA deserves any kind of hyphenated description. They are US citizen or “Americans”.
If truth be told there are many of us who have a caucasian complexion, that could carry the title of African American, Portuguese American, Native American, British American, Scottish American, Irish American. All these could be used to describe one person. I guess that makes me deplorable.
Silly you, thinking that the Portland Police have anything to do with law enforcement.
Make sure the exits are well lit for the rank and file.
Oh goody...violence all around the liberal countryside. It’s also the first-ever Barack Obama Day in Illinois. Any bets on how many casualties there will be over this special weekend?
Hopefully she didn't lose her backbone during her promotions in the department. She wore the uniform, and knows what officers have to deal with, but politics and bureaucracy has a way of destroying the fight in good people because they roll over for the system...go along to get along. And the higher you go in most government positions, you serve at the "pleasure of", and in order to keep that job, you have to dance to the man's tune. You have to become a government whore. The officer's won't respect her if she's a puppet.
I know...I’ve walked down Portland’s MLK Blvd at night....not pleasant. Virtue signaling before competence....way to go Portland.
Did everyone else resign ?
Leftist affirmative action replaces the need for qualifications with XX.
They're telling us this so we can now her skin color...So if that's important, why not just say black American then???
What that all means is that blacks who commit crimes will be let off lightly, and that white cops will be harassed to hell, and that crime will rise but no one will remember what I just wrote.
Portland’s first black chief of police didn’t work out so well. He was at the center of the Kendra James murder by one of Portland’s finest;and was screwing one of his subordinates. At least his subordinate was a female, but no one would have been surprised if it had been a guy.
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