Social justice movements are fantastic at making issues worse than they were to begin with, which is becoming the unfortunate case in Portland, Oregon.
The Portland Police Bureau’s Focused Initiative Team has been able to garner the interest of only four law enforcement officials to fill the 14 slots needed to have a fully functioning unit, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Homicides are on the rise in the liberal city, with gun violence being the main cause.
Fifty-three people have been killed so far this year, the second-highest on record, as 1987 saw 70 homicides, according to the report Monday.
The unit used to be called the Gun Violence Reduction Team, but that was dissolved last year amid calls to defund and even abolish the police.
This new force will have its own citizen-advisory board for increased oversight to prevent disproportionate racial profiling, which was a chief reason cited for shutting down the old unit.
An outlined mission of the newly formed team is to “identify and dismantle institutional and systemic racism in the bureau’s responses to gun violence,” according to National Review.
The flowery language is simply a way to appease the leftists of Portland.
These officers are already well aware that they will have hostile reception in certain areas, so you cannot blame them for not wanting to join that team.
“They’re demonizing and vilifying you, and then they want to put you in a unit where you’re under an even bigger microscope,” police union leader Daryl Turner told The Wall Street Journal.
Portland was one of the cities that dealt with major riots following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody last May.
After #antifa started multiple fires on the street & set the police union building on fire again tonight, Portland Police declared a riot & moved in. #PortlandRiots pic.twitter.com/z9iPU5ejKu
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) August 29, 2020
It was one of the few that acted in response to cut funding to law enforcement.
The City Council voted to defund the police by at least $15 million last June, with only one of the four members voting “no” because she believed it did not go far enough, according to KGW-TV.
“While I sit here as a middle-aged white guy who is fortunate in so many ways, I do believe that I have an important role to play in this transitional period,” Mayor Ted Wheeler told protesters that month, the outlet reported.
“As I speak there are hundreds of you out in front of my apartment building. … I hear you and I see you. … And I’m going to be with you all the way.”
Hopefully, this task force will be able to combat the rise in crime, even though it is clearly off to a rocky start.
via westernjournal
Yes sir, logic is the answer. Yesterday I had a rope that was too short — since then, I’ve cut that rope three times and it’s STILL too short. Wonder what’s wrong ???
you can have govern Brown out there!! and you can also call Mayor Wheeler!!!
What happened to the idea of sending Social Workers to resolve gun fights? Bet you have difficulty recruiting them too!
Wondering the same thing. If there aren’t enough social workers then maybe the city council should step in and resolve the gun fights….hahaha
Gee as a retired cops wife I can’t imagine why no one wants to be a cop there!
nobody in his proper mind would join and should join the Portland police departement.Let the mayor do his DIRTY WORK himself. I will bet he will not stick around much longer and he will leave town!
Just bring back good old fashion lynchings ! It always worked Great in the good old days !
For the Liberals I Agree!
Well if the Minorities would STOP Committing the Vast Majority of Crimes They wouldn’t be in Contact with the Police so Much!
If people are stupid enough to keep voting for weak liberal leaders, then they deserve the crappy leadership and bad circumstances they get.
WOW who would have thunk it? WHY would anyone want to be a cop in Portland? They wanted the police defunded and gone – seems like they got their wish – now they will suffer the consequences. And it is doubtful they will find much sympathy from anywhere else.
…No patriotic police recruits??
All Oregon Demo☭rat politicians, leftist judges, prosecutors and election officials must resign first.
…No patriotic police recruits??
They would hire ANTIFA and BLM Marxists to fill the ranks.
They could import H-1b/2b Communist Chinese troops as cops.
They could hire illegal alien MS-13 drug cartel members as cops.
The possibilities are endless and cheaper!
Remember, you get what you pay for.
No, you couldn’t hire them. Biden is paying them too much for not working.
I hope after they DEFUNDED POLICE the Police just Don’t come back. Use Tax Payer Dollars for protection just like the HYPOCRITES in Detroit, California, Portland, Seattle, & New York., When Cops are being Picked Off because Politicians put them in TOTAL LINE of DANGER & take their Resources away to fight crime, I would say KISS MY GRITS! Sometimes biting your nose off to spite your face leaves POCK MARKS! And we all know that these States are BLUE, BOO HOO!
Does anyone even have to wonder why???????