'Your Call Cannot Be Completed as Dialed.' Portland Asks Residents Not to Call 911

PJ Media ^ | 10/05/2023 | Lincoln Brown

[SeekAndFind]

The chickens continue to come home to roost for progressive cities. While it is tempting to make remarks about savoring the schadenfreude of the various moments, karma being a b***h, or getting what one voted for, it is more like driving by a fatal car accident on the highway. Mainly because for every arrogant progressive who is getting a proverbial snootful from the uptick of crime due to Democrat policies, there are people who are getting caught in the crossfire.

Lately, Philadelphia has been in the news for riots, a motorcyclist smashing the back window of a car with children inside (and dropping his gun), and the murder of a left-wing journalist. New York’s woes persist. Even as Governor Kathy Hochul was grudgingly forcing herself to admit that open borders may have been a bad idea, another homicide was entered into the Big Apple’s Roll of Shame. Thirty-two-year-old Ryan Carson was stabbed in Bedford-Stuyvesant on Monday night. Carson was anti-cop and identified as a member of Antifa. He got to experience the fruits of his beliefs firsthand.

And then there’s Portland, Oregon. Oh, Portland, Portland, Portland. When was the last time you made the news for anything other than being a lead story in someone’s daily doom scroll? I can’t remember, either. And I doubt things are going to change.

News Nation reports that on Monday, Portland’s safety commissioner, Rene Gonzalez, announced via social media:

Our 911 system is getting hammered this morning with a multiple person incident — multiple overdoses in northwest park blocks. Please do not call 911 except in event of life/death emergency or crime in progress (or chance of apprehending suspect). For non-emergency please use 503-823-3333.

[SeekAndFind]

Appearing on the show “On Balance,” Gonzalez told host Leland Vittert that the system was swamped and something had to be done. She said that Measure 110, which decriminalized the possession of drugs and reduced many felonies to misdemeanors, was supposed to provide support services to addicts. However, the effort was curtailed due to the arrival of COVID-19.

[MNJohnnie]

I see Covid Covid Covid is the new scapegoat for incompetence incompetence incompetence

[drSteve78]

If the addicts all die, sadly, then the problem is self limiting.

[DannyTN]

call
1-800-you-dead
instead

[Billthedrill]

We’ve been pushing certain forms of judicial reform for the last decade in the state and in our county. We’re now paying the piper for that. Some well-intentioned things have had some really negative impacts.

"And, being the true progressives we are," Gonzalez continued, "We're going to double down on all of them!" OK, he didn't really say that but that's what they're going to do. Watch it happen.

[Steely Tom]

They will demand a national 911 system. Federal takeover.

[Colt1851Navy]

Dim version of heaven, in government we trust, paradise lost, death in de screet.

[chajin]

'Your Call Cannot Be Completed as Dialed.'

What's "dialed"? ☎️

[Boogieman]

Just redirect the 911 phone number to Greyhound so people can book their bus ticket to get the hell out of Portland at least.

[dfwgator]

Tell ‘em Flava!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZDIitWz8Go

[Army Air Corps]

Like Flavor Flav said,”So get up, get, get, get down
911 is a joke in yo town.”

[dfwgator]

#10

[Army Air Corps]

GMTA

[dfwgator]

Chuck D is a prat, but Flavor’s cool.

[Army Air Corps]

I can agree with that. Chuck D is too in love with himself to be as cool as Flav.

[Sertorius]

ahh the eighties!

[lurk]

Looks like a great place to set up an unmarked concrete building selling personal defense products.

[simpson96]

The wages of liberalism...

[wally_bert]

Easier than this number.

https://youtu.be/HWc3WY3fuZU?si=ETKxyOEK2n1kR-vY

[Zathras]

“Hello this is Peggy”