And the Bay Area Cities of Oakland and San Francisco are getting it good and hard. Now the cities' "leaders" hope to reverse the course they've set. Rots a ruck with that, kids! But we're getting a lot of it, as well:
https://www.courthousenews.com/bay-area-mayors-push-to-reverse-police-cuts-and-expand-surveillance-tools/
The mayors of Oakland and San Francisco once championed diverting police funding to social services. Now they both want to hire more officers and give police more tools to investigate crimes.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed talks to reporters inside the community room of the city's newest Navigation Center, built to house homeless people near the Embarcadero.
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — More than a year after moving to cut and redistribute police funding in the wake of racial justice protests, two city leaders in Northern California are now pushing to hire more officers, crack down on crime and expand police surveillance powers.
The mayors of San Francisco and its across-the-bay neighbor Oakland recently unveiled proposals to increase police presence in their cities and broaden law enforcement’s ability to use surveillance tools, such as license plate readers and access to private security camera networks. The proposals come as both cities struggle with an increase in homicides and violent crime and a recent spate of brazen robberies targeting high-end retailers and cannabis dispensaries.
Across the bay in Oakland, Mayor Libby Schaaf recently asked for city legislators to approve money to hire more officers. The request came after department staffing fell below 678, the threshold the city must meet to keep collecting a special tax approved by voters in a 2014.
On Tuesday, Schaaf penned a letter to Governor Gavin Newsom calling for the state to continue sending California Highway Patrol officers to enforce traffic laws in Oakland and to install license-plate readers around highway ramps and major city arteries. The request comes amid a recent spike in homicides, car jackings and robberies in Oakland this year.
Meanwhile, here in Orygun, it's beginning to dawn on some folks that while feeling all good and touchy-feely may be one thing, the results are definitely another:
Major cartels, including ones from China, Mexico, Russia, Argentina, Bulgaria and other countries, are now growing marijuana year-round and committing other egregious crimes, such as human trafficking and slavery, to support their illegal activities because Oregon has made it hard for police and farm inspectors to do their jobs.
Illegal marijuana operations run by domestic and international cartels are expanding throughout Oregon thanks to the state’s liberal laws and inadequate regulations, which impact the legal and illegal drug industries as well as law enforcement’s ability to address drug crimes.
For example, police in Oregon are prohibited by law from asking about nationality or immigration status, according to a report by The Epoch Times. In addition, legal hemp farmers are not obligated under Oregon law to allow inspectors onto their property to search for illegal marijuana cultivation operations on their farms.
Josephine County Sheriff Dave Daniel confirmed that drug traffickers are now coming to Oregon. He told The Epoch Times:
“Drug traffickers have flocked here from every state in the nation and nearly a dozen countries.”
Oregon’s Jackson County has declared a state of emergency as cartels have stolen water, intimidated residents and enslaved more than 10,000 illegal immigrants.
Oregon math: sanctuary state for illegal aliens + legalized pot=Mexican drug cartels + human slavery.
Albany Police Captain Brad Liles told The Epoch Times in a separate report that Chinese operators had major and sophisticated indoor growing operations: Portland , Oregon 800 murders. Drug cartels setting up in “ open borders” move. More undocumented migrants coming in daily. https://t.co/mrOjDWfMOc
In the small town of Philomath, one illegal operation took place in a two-story warehouse structure with 11 rooms and 5,000 square feet. According to Philomath Chief of Police Ken Rueben, the warehouse contained 4,000 plants in varying stages, from starters to fully-grown plants ready to harvest.
The sophisticated facility even used generators, air filtration devices and electronically controlled temperature and humidity based on the age of the plants.
https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/oregon-attracting-international-drug-cartels-that-use-narco-slaves/
Five suspects allegedly connected with a Chinese organized crime group headquartered in New York were arrested during the raid, according to Chief Rueben.
Just a few blocks further up the hill from my place, there used to be a small grocery and deli. It's now a pot shop. Same story down the hill; that place used to be a small massage studio/health food shop. It all happened in the space of just a couple of years.
Transformation, dude!
