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Posted on 09/15/2023 5:58:52 AM PDT by chief lee runamok
The PPB took more than 20 minutes to respond to high-priority calls, more than 50 minutes to respond to medium-priority calls, and more than one and a half hours to respond to low-priority calls as of July, according to the report.
“Like other major cities, Portland, Oregon, has experienced a surge in crime and disorder over the past three years,” the report reads. “Unlike other major cities, Portland is uniquely ill-equipped to deal with this problem, because its police department is uniquely understaffed.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
And, at a certain point, the police who are left quit and move to jurisdictions that don’t hate them.
Defund the police more and let the Marxist Dems live with it. Suckers!
I care nothing about liberals, they're well being or their potted plants. I only care that we allow such fools to vote. That's the travesty.
I didn’t click through, but nowhere in your excerpt is the appalling lack of prosecutions/incarcerations mentioned, either.
This problem will continue to manifest as a uniquely democrat one because they will refuse - REFUSE - to accept building more jails and the optics of said jails being populated almost exclusively by black, subculture criminals.
Exactly. They are moving to red counties and cities that will appreciate their dangerous and hard work.
If they just got rid of the rest of the police there would be no more crime to report on.
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Those who refused to see the handwriting on the wall stayed too long.
NOW-—NO ONE can sell a house-—
WHO WANTS TO MOVE TO PORTLAND? NO ONE
Who would ever sign up to be a policeman in Portland (or Seattle?).
Every day you would be at risk of lawsuits, firing and personal destruction for trying to enforce laws.
Portland is getting what it deserves, hard. No sympathy from me. Too bad, it is a beautiful city.
Colin Flaherty said that small towns in Oregon, Washington and rural Northern California are filled with former big-city cops from New York, Chicago, Portland, Seattle, etc., who wanted a safer environment for themselves and their families.
“Just one year after defund the police cuts, Portland mayor calls for big budget increase”
It’s only when the government’s inane policies start affecting them and their families will they relent and go back to law and order. I still say
Penalty for first gun crime conviction involving no bodily harm: 10 years in prison at hard labor
Penalty for first gun crime conviction involving bodily harm: 20 years in prison at hard labor
Penalty for first gun crime conviction involving bodily harm but no deaths: life in prison at hard labor
Penalty for first gun crime conviction involving victim’s death: death penalty
Initiate this and watch the crime rate drop into the basement.
Oh, wait. They are already doing that. Never mind.
https://oregoncatalyst.com/71394-hiring-excons-patrol-portland.html
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