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!
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...
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.
Play stupid games. . .
Play stupid games. . .
That’s nothing.😏
At one time Florida hired ex-cons as bulls!
(Guards)
They said that the ex-con knew all the “tricks!”😄
A favorite line from "Last of the Mohicans".
Even if they are all reformed at first, how long can that last when you give them power and position and then send them back into their old world of criminal enterprises, easy money and new access to private property and information, bribes, drugs, hookers, and their old amoral entertainments and interests?
” The plan is for Urban Alchemy to deploy outreach patrols in the city center where Portland police have struggled to maintain patrols.”
All right! BLM meet Aryan Brotherhood. Have fun.
Pre kung flu lock downs I employed several “ex cons” to work in my shop. The local prison had a great welding and machinist program. The ones who didn’t make it were addicts. The rest were good guys who paid their time and were very good employees.