Posted on 09/10/2023 1:27:32 PM PDT by aimhigh
Portland’s flailing Mayor, Ted Wheeler, has a new idea, bring in ex-cons who have served decades in prison after being convicted of serious crimes, which can include murder, to patrol the city’s troubled streets. He wants to contract with a San Francisco-based nonprofit, Urban Alchemy (UA) that hires formerly incarcerated convicts to patrol troubled areas to address street-level issues rooted in addiction, mental illness and homelessness. The plan is for Urban Alchemy to deploy outreach patrols in the city center where Portland police have struggled to maintain patrols.
“We want to make sure that that presence, the things we need in place to keep downtown Portland on the path to recovery, is there 24/7,” said Jon Isaacs, the Portland Metro Chamber’s assistant director for public affairs.
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Cloward-Piven knew what they were doing.
What could go wrong?
Ted Wheeler is the far left mayor who marched in the riot in 2020 and got a whiff of tear gas deployed by federal officers (blame Trump) so he could claim victim status.
A complete fraud.
Well, Portland, you had better embrace this madness! After all, you voted for this foolishness!
A typical rat party member, in other words.
One of the fringe benefits of this system, the ex-cons who will be patrolling the streets get to keep all the drugs and money they take off people.
What could possibly go wrong?
Stay tuned, it might be very ugly.
I don’t need a reason to avoid Portland but this is certainly one, for now.
The inmates are running the asylum!
Two old urban pals who committed hundreds of crimes since reform school days are reunited.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeyOBAra014
Clockwork Orange showed how effective it can be to give the droogs badges...
Remember when Seattle ceded CHAZ to Antifa and Antifa started shooting black carjackers?
It just might work out...
where is Snake Plissken when you need him?
I say close Portlands borders and let them kill each over. Just like ‘Escape from New York’
Worked in the past with Robert Wagner....
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062572/
“...bring in ex-cons who have served decades in prison after being convicted of serious crimes, which can include murder, to patrol the city’s troubled streets.”
In the old days, we used to call that “networking”.
Yes give authority and power to the felons.
“One of the fringe benefits of this system, the ex-cons who will be patrolling the streets get to keep all the drugs and money they take off people.”
Yep, the foxes are guarding the hen house.
That is how the law in the West was settled in many towns. Find the meanest, and most brazen bully in the gang of thugs down at the saloon, make him marshal, and let him round up and boot out all the other troublemakers. Of course, that only worked until some meaner and more brutal brazen bully rode into town.
Play stupid games. . .
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