Posted on 02/07/2022 11:28:42 AM PST by matt04
Only two recent retired officers among 81 contacted by Police Chief Chuck Lovell have expressed interest in helping fill Portland police vacancies under the city-approved retire-rehire program.
The chief urged them to consider returning in a letter last month, acknowledging that those who had retired since August 2020 left “at a time of great despair for the Bureau and the City of Portland.”
The Police Bureau is now rebuilding with support from elected officials and residents, Lovell wrote, and urged the retirees to help this “once vibrant city come back to life.”
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Stephanie D. Hudson, who worked as an officer from October 1994 until last May, wrote that the reference to “considerable support from elected officials” was “laughable.” She also said she was offended by the clause in the letter that referenced the city’s ban on bringing back officers found to have violated policy by “cooperating with federal agents to attack Portland residents.”
“Your letter indicates that nothing has changed. It simply highlights why those who could leave, did leave. I suspect it will take a decade or more to repair the damage that has been done,” Hudson wrote.
Hudson started working for Hillsboro police the day after she retired in Portland, according to state records.
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The bureau also anticipates another large wave of retirements this July and will be working to encourage those veteran officers while they’re still working for the bureau to consider coming back under the program as well, Allen said. About 60 Portland officers will be eligible to retire by July 31.
The retirees would return at their top pay and collect their city pensions at the same time, but they would lose seniority, meaning they would typically work the night or afternoon shifts. They can return to the bureau for two years.
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Oh, if you do come back, have fun on the graveyard shift.
I can't imagine why no one wanted to come back.
They have 96 vacancies now with an additional 60 officers eligible to retire in July. That will be about 18% of the force positions not filled.
Portland can only get worse.
Anyone would have to be a complete idiot to go back there.
I would take the job.
I would take maximum sick days. I wouldn’t participate on raids. I definitely wouldn’t get out of my patrol-car. I would not go to the ghetto.
The bureaucrats need to meet their new numbers, so I bet it would take 12 months at least to get fired.
NO sympathy here. TS Portland.
That is just so laughable and preposterous. What are they doing to do? Stab you in the back with a 3 inch blade instead of a 10 inch blade?
I hope (but do not expect) that this will be an object lesson to city councils, mayors, legislators, and governors all over the country. "Woke" gets your cities a decimated and demoralized PD that will fill its ranks with lower level people with sketchy records, probably leading to more police abuse.
It was all so unexpected.
It would be kinda fun to see how low you could get your case salved rate. Only respond to calls you are dispatched to.
Talk to the victim who was assaulted by some homeless drug addict, etc. get a general description and give them a report number. Then if you see a possible suspect, just say it wasn’t a good enough match to the victims description, and you didn’t want to violate the suspects rights, etc. Repeat for each case. That seems to be the MO/policy going forward in Portland.
I’d consider coming back if I could work from home.
Police dispatcher: A riot is in progress at the city center.
Me: Tell them not to break anything.
Danielle Outlaw bailed on the place to be the Chief in Philadelphia. Everything you need to know about being a cop in Portland.
Haha.
Officer: Dispatch, set up the Zoom call with the RP.
PR: Help!!!! They are trying to break in and loot and vandalize my business!
Officer: Turn the phone around so I can see the rioters.
RP: *turns around phone*
Officer: Attention! This is officer Smith of Portland Police Bureau, your actions are illegal, you are ordered to cease and disperse immediately. *phone is ripped from RP hands, and glass is heard breaking before the line goes dead* Adds to report: rioters broke blass to save RP from fire that mysteriously stared in business and took phone to recharge so it will be fully charged for call to insurance company. Case closed.
Let Portland burn.
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