![]() ![]() I am sure the morale is low amongst the police, how could it not be? I know I would be pretty discouraged/frustrated/annoyed with how the organization is being run if I worked there (I don’t work there and I feel all those things). I think the police are one aspect of the problem, but really it’s been the system that has been the problem and not something about the police. So the short staffing has been happening since before they fully quit doing their jobs, but it sure seems to have exacerbated the problem – they had a very hard time hiring anyone before 2020. The cops don’t do their job, the conditions get worse, they can’t hire anyone because of the bad conditions. How do you distinguish this from the impacts of being extremely short staffed? You claim the main problem now is cops not doing their jobs because they’re upset. ![]() The saddest part is Portland has funding for drug rehab/healthcare, but they haven’t been successful/as active as they need to be in using that funding. The defunding of our healthcare system and social safety net is really the largest contributor to homelessness and the issues we are seeing. ![]() And before you say it ain’t so, I suggest you look at the federal government assessment of the PPB and how the PPB has yet to implement any of the changes they recommend. Perhaps you should also consider that the toxic culture the PPB has created is a large reason they are having a hard time hiring and retaining people. The problem is part police and their absolutely political response the the protests and the small cut in funding they received (which was quickly re-upped by the mayor) and part city leadership (which is mainly centrist/conservative leaning in regards to homelessness at this point). They have had open positions for quite a while and haven’t quit hiring because they ran out of money. The reasons the PPB can’t hire people are complex and many, but it isn’t because they are lacking funding. UPDATE: Nic Cota just posted a photo of the cleared wall: UPDATE, 1:25 pm: A tipster says a city crew is on-site and removal is imminent. The transportation chair of the Overlook Neighborhood Association posted to Twitter today that he’s reached out to the Portland Bureau of Transportation “multiple times” but has yet to receive a response. But so far, it seems there’s been only finger-pointing as the wall and debris has been there for over a week. I’ve heard there has been some discussion of this wall on the Overlook Neighborhood Facebook page and several people have contacted the City of Portland. Anyone criticizing this should try living on the other side of it for a week and see how they feel.” “It’s become a brutal place to raise kids. “I have compassion for houseless people but this needs to change,” she added. The person also said the opening in the wall is a popular site for drug dealing. “I’ve had people in my backyard threatening to break down my back door with my own tools, a cargo bike stolen at 4:00 am, a person break into my house and go upstairs into my kids room at 6:00 am, my hose turned on in the middle of the night and left on full blast for me to turn off in the dark (I was home alone), drugs smoked and yelling in the middle of the night for years now,” she said. ![]()
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