I thought I was doing smart business.
Posted on 05/15/2021 1:52:03 AM PDT by Libloather
Portland, Oregon, residents surveyed about the city’s downtown said they plan to visit less frequently, mainly citing the homelessness and rioting that has plagued the area in the last year, according to a new poll.
Respondents to the poll commissioned by The Oregonian newspaper used words like "dirty," "trash," "riots" and "unsafe" to describe the heart of the city, which appears to have deteriorated during the coronavirus pandemic and social unrest of the past year.
Downtown Portland, once a cultural and tourist center, is now rife with homeless tents, smashed windows, graffiti, trash and boarded-up businesses, the newspaper reported.
And while large-scale anti-police protests have mostly faded since their apex last summer, the city has yet to quell continued destruction caused by smaller groups who go through the city purporting to demonstrate for racial justice, smashing windows and tagging buildings in the process.
"There seems in the last year to be this permission to do violence," respondent Laurie Lago, 75, who lives near where the protests have been centered, told The Oregonian. She expressed frustration about the lack of riot-related arrests.
Sam Adams, an adviser to Mayor Ted Wheeler, said the mayor supports "kettling" to contain vandals, which involves confining rioters to a small area before arrests are made. He claimed Wheeler has also been working with the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office to make sure rioters who were previously cited and released will be booked into jail.
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Should just rename it....Antifaville.
You thought you did smart business?
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Looks like a cousin of Scarborough.
It’s a fine line between peaceful protest, effective political movements, and total bedlam.
Letting the uncivil behavior get out of hand has never worked, yet crushing protest, doesn’t apply to anarchy?
Take the Romans for example, an antifa type group arises in the outskirts of Rome. The legions are assembled, the riot is squashed and any evidence is gathered, confessions are gathered, and any escapees or those harboring rioters are hunted down and either die or are executed in various ways (a type of gloating). Is that overreach?
Wheeler is afraid to trample on anyones rights, and his lack of action is leveraged by the rioters as weakness and exploited. Yet, Wheeler arbitrarily dumps all over his constituents and public servants while attempting to appease the mob, feels the leftest monkeybrained logic and a heightened unpopularity by the local dreadlock & poncho crowd and caves to the threat! Caves to the threat. That threat could have been extinguished at the first acts of violence.
Where is a good takeaway on this? Who rights are abused? And whose rights should be suspended in the process of shutting it down and releasing the dogs of war on the tattered remains?
Imagine being Ted wheeler, and being in a situation where it’s damned if you do and damned if you don’t. Frankly I don’t think we ever had it in him to do anything about anything, ever. He’s a non-performing politician, without substance.
Go Woken get Broken. Nice city the leftards destroyed but they’re experts at it. GIGO - garbage in, garbage out to borrow an old computer ‘binary’ term.
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“Should just rename it....Antifaville”
Sounds like an idea for a new Jimmy Buffet song...
Unexpectedly!
So, they consulted Captain Obvious?
Do you mean to tell me that they had to actually take a poll to figure that one out? Why do you think the MN Twins attendance is way down, it’s because their stadium is in downtown Minneapolis, which has been taken over to “the homeless”, and roving bands of criminals.
We should hire the Israeli Air Force to start the clean up.
Why would anyone go down there?
Rioting and homeless camps are bad for business? These will scare people away? Who could have predicted this?
“dirty,” “trash,” “riots” and “unsafe”
Call fire trucks wash it down call police make arrests
problem solved.
OH WAIT it’s Portland never mind.
Right; after that ghettopotamus drank the restaurant customer’s beer (in Pittsburgh?) and wasn’t strung up from a lightpole for it, I’d never go back where those ferals could show up. That restaurant would be out of business ASAP as well...
another DemocRat Socialists Party success story..
Add it to all the inner cities and our borders.. What a Party!
another DemocRat Socialists Party success story..
Add it to all the inner cities and our borders.. What a Party!
Portland, most atheist city in the US. 76% democrat. They voted for 3rd world status.
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