Posted on 10/11/2021 12:36:07 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Portland police said officers responded to 13 shootings in a span of 28 hours over the weekend, which left one person dead and three others hurt.
Police said in the east side of the city, five shots calls were taken in the span of about 3 hours.
These shootings placed a significant strain on resources during that time. At one of the shootings, a sergeant was left to process one of the crime scenes alone, police said. At another crime scene, officers needed the help of community members to block traffic while they looked for and collected evidence.
On Friday, the Portland Police Association, the union that represents officers released a five year plan to help with the rising crime.
They say, the situation this weekend could have been avoided if city leaders wouldn't have taken so much of their funding away, leaving them with many officers retiring.
"We are the, we are the leanest police agency in the country with over 250,000 people in the population of the city." Daryl Turner, President of the Portland Police Association said.
He says the attitude towards officers needs to change at the city level if we want to be able to hire the quality candidates we need.
"We have to bring in new people, qualified applicants to bring them in from all over the country and be able to say, this is a place you want to work," Turner said.
Turner went on to say without that and better funding we will continue to spiral, seeing rising crime and gun violence.
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You’d have to be a fool to join the Portland PD.
Maybe some good guy is hunting down the Antifa thugs, one by one.
“We have to bring in new people, qualified applicants to bring them in from all over the country and be able to say, this is a place you want to work,” Turner said.
No PO in their right mind would come to leftist, commie Portland, Seattle etc etc etc, regardless of the salary.
There’s only one solution to this growing Portland violence...cut the police budget in half and hire more social workers.
Go Portland! ... Get Those Numbers Up! ... Portland Can Be Number One!
Let’s Go Brandon!
Good luck with that.
Why are they still working for Portland Police Department? Obviously they are not wanted.
Social Workers respond to 13 shootings in Portland within 28 hours
There, fixed it!
Maybe those people can call Antifa?
One councilmember has blood on her hands: jo an Hardesty
We already knew Portland was lost (and Seattle too) as they are leftist hellholes that birthed ANTIFA. Democrats are able to do the damage they do and were able to steal the 2020 election because America has more sheeple than people. I watched a video proving that via a social experiment, and you can check it out in crawler link top of page at Whatfinger News. I know what silver is worth and I can buy lots of chocolate bars with the 2 grand. Just wow! Sounds like too few shootings in Portland anyway.
Well a fool now. The Portland PD wasn’t always like that. This is what happens when Democrats touch something. Do not let a Democrat touch you!
From your fingers to God’s eyeballs. I’m not racist, except against communists.
And keep doing that until the problem resolves itself.
Antifa is pulsing the system.
They have along way to go to catch up to Chicago, Philly, Baltimore, etc.
TS. No sympathy here for the good citizens of Portland. I reserve my sympathy for the men and women who are still Portland cops.
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