The City of Portland, Oregon has lost 115 police officers since July 2020. 74 retired and 41 resigned.
The situation for police officers in Portland is so bad that nearby Spokane, Washington is advertising for cops in Portland in a very public billboard campaign.
They'll doubtless do better in Spokane. Portland's essentially a lost cause.
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PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) - Groups of ANTIFA agitators surrounded police officers who were responding to a man with a knife in a mental health crisis in downtown Portland, according to the Portland Police Bureau.
Officers were called out to the 300 block of Southwest 4th Avenue at 1 p.m. Friday.
After an hour and a half, the situations were apparently resolved.
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Oregon:
Gov. Kate Brown announced Nov. 13 a two-week "freeze" for the state that will take effect starting Nov. 18. Restaurants and bars will have to go back to take-out service only — previously they were allowed to have limited indoor seating — and indoor recreation centers like gyms, museums and theaters will close again, as will zoos and gardens. Grocery stores will be limited to 75% capacity, and Brown is encouraging curbside pickup when possible.
Additionally, the freeze will stop visits to nursing homes and business are now required to mandate that employees work from home as much as possible. Social gatherings, in or out, are not to include more than six people from two households.
Oregon has had a statewide mask order since July.
In the Portland metropolitan area, the orders are applicable for at least one month. Fortunately, I stocked up on dog-food and groceries before this kicked in; I go shopping once a month, and I have meats and fish shipped directly to my home from suppliers. I can do fine without Brown's directives, and would greatly appreciate it if she'd just go back home to Minnesota.
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On November 5th, about sixty Antifa marched to Portland city council member Dan Ryan’s home and vandalized it. It was revenge for his vote against Commissioner JoAnn Hardesty’s proposal to defund the police. Later, someone set city hall on fire but security was able to extinguish it.
With these folks around, I'm disinclined to defund our police. In fact, were it up to me, the size of the force would be increased.
We really need those idiots to feel some consequences for their behavior.
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The designation may well result in cities losing targeted federal funds.
In its press release, the Department of Justice notes that Portland had more than 100 consecutive nights of protests "marred by vandalism, chaos, and even killing." It said protesters started fires, threw projectiles at law enforcement officers, and destroyed property. The DOJ says several officers were injured.
Yes - I believe we're on day (night) 104 now in Portland. The feds have offered to send in assistance, but the so-called mayor flatly rejected it.
Portland paper Willamette Week provided a platform for Portland rioters charged with crimes who are upset that Andy Ngo posted public records profiling their alleged criminal activity. The article, titled "Portland Protesters Say Their Lives Were Upended by the Posting of Their Mug Shots on a Conservative Twitter Account," was published early Wednesday morning.
Ngo's actions - unlike those of the rioters - are perfectly legal, as the police data are matters of pubic record. That the rioters are upset over the free publicity kind of falls under the heading of "don't do the crimes". One of the rioters, a paralegal of all things, has since lost his employment:
On Aug. 18, three days after Ngo posted the mug shot, Phillip Wenzel's boss at Elizabeth Christy Law Firm sent him a letter that the firm had received 50 threatening or harassing communications since his arrest. "Because you have chosen to engage in activism that has resulted in violence, physical injuries, and negative publicity for [the law firm], there is now a major distraction from the business we are doing, a threat to my ability to gain new business, and a threat to our employees' safety," Christy wrote in an email provided to WW.
Another doesn't appear to have lost her job as yet:
April Epperson, who works at a Northeast Portland public school, is another protester who was arrested for disorderly conduct and interfering with a peace officer on Aug. 24 and was greeted that same day by a Ngo tweet sharing her mug shot and Facebook profile picture with part of the caption reading, "Like others recently arrest[ed], she works with children at an elementary school." Several commenters on the subsequent Twitter thread shared the name of the school.
It's rather unseemly behavior for a school teacher who allegedly teaches 4th grade.
Newsflash: Rioting can be detrimental to your health and job prospects.
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President Trump has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for a second time, sending the Left into yet another of their patented tizzy-fits. The first nomination came because of the normalization of relations between Israel and the UAE; the second because of the peace deal between Serbia and Kosovo.
From Israel-UAE to Serbia-Kosovo, @realDonaldTrump has accomplished more for peace in the last month than President Obama did in 8 years – and Obama was nominated just *weeks* after being sworn in.
The Atlantic staff writer Graeme Wood published a nearly 1500-word-long screed Friday calling for the Nobel Peace Prize to be outright canceled. Why? Because #OrangeManBad and because Tybring-Gjedde, whose views on immigration do not coincide with the left’s view on the issue, is allegedly a “troll.”
It didn't seem to bother them that Barry did nothing to merit his award.
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Portland police have arrested the 25-year-old man accused of viciously attacking a truck driver who was seen on video being violently beaten, jail records show. Marquise Lee Love turned himself in and was booked in the Multnomah County Detention Center on Friday shortly after 8:30 a.m. local time, according to jail records. He was charged with assault, coercion and rioting, all three of which are felonies, records show.
The PPD knew who he was, and it was just a matter of time before they caught up to him and dragged him in. Even he knew that. His face has been all over the news media.
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Certainly here in Portland, everybody filmed being arrested seems to be white.
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As you can see, they're mostly young white punks.
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A conservative journalist with The Common Sense Conservative was stabbed in an early morning attack in Portland, Oregon this morning. You can watch it in the first video below. The stabbing followed a night of continued attacks against the Hatfield Courthouse and against random people in Portland.
And they're out there again. It's probably going to require mortar fire to get the SOBs out.
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