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Posted on 04/04/2023 7:35:10 AM PDT by devane617
Sixty days into Portland's "90-day reset" plan for the Central Eastside, business owners say they're seeing progress but still have a long way to go to fixing issues plaguing the area.
We first interviewed Bridgid Blackburn in January shortly after city leaders started the 90-day plan.
She described to us problems with graffiti, vandalism and safety dealing with people who are having a mental health crisis.
Now, a little more than 60 days into the plan, Blackburn says she's seeing positive changes.
Like the noticeable increase in Portland police patrols in the area.
“That has definitely created a perception of increased safety, for our teams and definitely for our customers as well. Not every response needs to be police. But having the visual reminder that there are police just on the streets patrolling, that they are driving the district, is in of itself reassuring, especially when we’ve been so devoid of it for so long,” Blackburn said.
She says she still cleans graffiti off her building every Tuesday, but now the city will provide paint and cleaning materials. And for larger and harder-to-reach graffiti jobs, city crews will come and clean it up.
(Excerpt) Read more at katu.com ...
Want to get rid of graffiti, shoot to kill taggers.
How can one be a drug addict and mentally ill yet create art work with spray paint? I am missing something.
I don’t call it art. If I could do it, it ain’t art.
God did not destroy Sodom and Gomorrah because they had bad mayors.
Wow! Imagine that. Policing actually helps. I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you...
“How did this happen and what mindset allows this?”
It stems from “pathological compassion” - do-gooderism. Instead of holding a person responsible, the bleeding hearts feel sorry and make excuses for the miscreant.
It’s a type of insipid “compassion” that destroys both the receiver and the community.
Portland is a prime example. But it’s a problem everywhere.
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