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Wheeler announces new emergency declaration amid continued gun violence (Portland, Oregon)
KOIN ^ | 07/21/2022 | Kelly Doyle, Michaela Bourgeois

Posted on 07/22/2022 11:03:25 AM PDT by aimhigh

As shootings and homicides continue to skyrocket across the city, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler announced a new emergency declaration on Thursday in an effort to combat the rising crime. . . . .

“Portland will not cure our gun violence problem through law enforcement and prosecutions alone,” Wheeler said. The mayor explained part of the Safer Summer PDX plan includes spending $2.4 million toward community-based violence intervention efforts.

Part of the Safer Summer plan includes outreach efforts to Portlanders most at-risk of being involved in gun violence by “community-based messengers” that are not members of law enforcement, Wheeler explained. “Rather than arrest and prosecute, our goal with this program will be to offer each person at risk of gun violence a meaningful and workable plan tailored to each person’s specific needs to prevent them from getting involved in this in the first place,” Wheeler said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: anarchotyranny; banglist; crime; dystopia; oregon; portland
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1 posted on 07/22/2022 11:03:25 AM PDT by aimhigh
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To: aimhigh

Whew! Finally someone can put a stop to it! 🤔😅 If you blame the tool, you are a tool!


2 posted on 07/22/2022 11:04:55 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: aimhigh

Lol. Stupid liberal. More shrinks and social workers = more crime, not less.


3 posted on 07/22/2022 11:05:51 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: aimhigh

Who would have thought that legalizing drugs would lead to more violence? Who besides everyone, that is.

People like Wheeler and those who vote for them are well and truly insane. Their ridiculous policies are the reason there is more violence.


4 posted on 07/22/2022 11:06:01 AM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: aimhigh

In realville “community-based violence intervention efforts” is called Constitutional Carry.


5 posted on 07/22/2022 11:07:41 AM PDT by bravo whiskey (Annie Savoy : The world is made for people who aren't cursed with self awareness. )
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To: aimhigh

Screw it up...then ask for more $$$ to fix it...the Demo/Commie way


6 posted on 07/22/2022 11:10:45 AM PDT by goodnesswins (....pervert Biden & O Cabal are destroying America, as planned. )
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To: aimhigh

““Portland will not cure our gun violence problem...”


Sorry, Ted. If you can’t even bring yourself to state what the problem is: criminal violence, you have no hope of fixing it.


7 posted on 07/22/2022 11:13:34 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: aimhigh
“Gun violence” is a term used in an attempt to obfuscate who is committing the violent crimes.

Until politicians and the media actually have the courage to name the group that is disproportionately responsible for the violent crime, the problem will not be solved.

8 posted on 07/22/2022 11:18:28 AM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis )
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To: aimhigh

LOL, what could go wrong...


9 posted on 07/22/2022 11:18:35 AM PDT by Democrat = party of treason
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To: aimhigh

“Portland will not cure our gun violence problem through law enforcement and prosecutions alone,” Wheeler said. The mayor explained part of the Safer Summer PDX plan includes spending $2.4 million toward community-based violence intervention efforts.

Part of the Safer Summer plan includes outreach efforts to Portlanders most at-risk of being involved in gun violence by “community-based messengers” that are not members of law enforcement, Wheeler explained. “Rather than arrest and prosecute, our goal with this program will be to offer each person at risk of gun violence a meaningful and workable plan tailored to each person’s specific needs to prevent them from getting involved in this in the first place,” Wheeler said.

Call us in a year, and let us know how this B$ worked out!


10 posted on 07/22/2022 11:19:09 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Anyone, who can make you believe in absurdities, can make you commit atrocoveities.!" ~ (Voltaire)!!)
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To: aimhigh

a meaningful and workable plan tailored to each person’s specific needs to prevent them from getting involved in this in the first place,
= = =

Move out of Portland.


11 posted on 07/22/2022 11:19:11 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
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To: aimhigh

It used to be “Crime with a handgun: 3 to 5 automatic.”


12 posted on 07/22/2022 11:21:12 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: aimhigh

what a bunch of happy crap

up next, confiscation


13 posted on 07/22/2022 11:21:14 AM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: aimhigh

More money for social programs. Why didn’t we think of this before? Looks like the problem’s solved.


14 posted on 07/22/2022 11:25:04 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: aimhigh

Psycho voters elect psycho people.


15 posted on 07/22/2022 11:28:35 AM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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“Portland will not cure our gun violence problem through law enforcement and prosecutions alone,”
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That is the only way to address criminals.

It’s a criminal problem.

Arrest, prosecute and incarcerate to keep the rest of us safe.


16 posted on 07/22/2022 11:29:08 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: bravo whiskey

Amen to that.


17 posted on 07/22/2022 11:29:43 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Antoninus

They just legalized the wrong drugs. Fentynal for all would cure the problem for good.


18 posted on 07/22/2022 11:34:35 AM PDT by oldasrocks
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To: aimhigh

To stop the gun violence in Portland:

1. Hang all of the high officials of the city at once.

2. Enact measures where if one starts gun violence and is doing so as part of an illegal act, after trial & conviction one dies by public hanging and the immediate family (whoever resides in-state) of whoever started it will be subject to imprisonment at hard labor for 10 years.

3. If anyone there complains about it, hang them too.

4. If anyone in the immediate family is not in state, do not ever come back. Return would be immediate imprisonment.

5. Really not being sarcastic or kidding.


19 posted on 07/22/2022 11:36:34 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Scrambler Bob

Move out of Portland.

“Don’t visit Portland.”

A younger friend, now in his 50’s spent about 10+ years in Portland as a young adult. He left 15 years ago because of how the city was becoming ravaged by druggies.

He recently had a mini vacation/job in helping to relocate a personal yacht (not his) to Victoria. The people, who owned the boat told him, they would pay for his flight to stop in Portland on the way home.

He told them no thank you. Getting shot or mugged was not in his life plan.

So, he caught a commercial flight from SeaTac to Sac.., and flew over Portland at a few thousand feet. He didn’t go to nor spend anytime in Sac. with its violence.


20 posted on 07/22/2022 11:36:35 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Anyone, who can make you believe in absurdities, can make you commit atrocoveities.!" ~ (Voltaire)!!)
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