REPORT: Cops Quitting At ‘Unprecedented’ Numbers In Portland

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  1. Space_Time

    Space_Time Well-Known Member

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    A la Seattle and Minneapolis. I can't totally blame them. What happens when no one is left to police Portland:
     
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    It's common sense that when a job is made to be horrible, people will quit.

    I actually saw a lefty on here blame a rise in crime on the officers who quit. You can't reason with anybody who believes such ridiculous things.
     
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    Lot of people are looking for job. Maybe they'll get better ones.
     
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    Who can blame them!

    As for "what happens when no one is left to police Portland" they'd be getting what they deserve AND what their politicians claim they want.

    Maybe they will finally pull their heads out of their asses.

    Or not, and whatever sane civilized people remain will start leaving along with the police.

    Whatever. I say give it a few posts and someone will find a way to spin it around and blame Trump LOL.

    3...2...1...
     
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  5. Steve N

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    It's going to get worse as liberal cities refuse to enforce the law on people the racist terrorist they align with. Racist blm terrorist tries to murder someone and the prosecutors don't charge him with anything.

    Proud Boy Run Over By Black Lives Matter Activist Responds to Prosecutors Declining to Charge His Attacker

    Prosecutors have declined to file charges against a Vancouver Black Lives Matter militant who followed the Proud Boys to a bar following a memorial for the Patriot Prayer member who had been murdered by Antifa in Portland — and ran over one of them with his vehicle.

    Moon, as well as other witnesses, say that it was a targeted attack due to his political beliefs. He was placed in intensive care following the attack — as he was bleeding from his brain, sustained damaged to his left temporal lobe, has a concussion and could not remember the impact.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...sponds-prosecutors-declining-charge-attacker/

     
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    Seth Bullock Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Oregon is really only a blue state because of Portland. Those officers leaving in mid-career are going to police departments where the citizens appreciate them and support them, even if it's for less money.

    Portland is getting what it asked for.
     
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    Good for the goose? And once white flight goes into over drive, Portland will become Detroit. Nice job Libs. /thumbs
     
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    Portland has 900 permanent police oficers.

    In the past year, sounds like 25 member are trying to quit?

    In the middle of a big city, in the MIDDLE OF A PANDEMIC, that perhaps a couple percent want to take their benefits and partially or full pensions and move out to their 50 acre cabins in the backwoods to avoid having their partners and children and older parents and watch their rabbits and raccoons have babies? (they are very cute!

    The Right Wing pathetic attempts to try to manufacture "fear" is so stupid!

    And if some cops can't stand the heat, they can get out of the kitchen! There are plenty of capable and moral police experienced and recruits who would take the jobs if the cruel and utterly self-centered police would leave and stop making the good cops get quit in disgust.
     
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    The left wants to remove the insurrection act as included in the recent stimulus package. This will keep the national guard from helping police in the event of rioting or looting.

    If that law is removed then the Democrats will move to defund the police and after that it will be remove ICE and then the guns of all US citizens.

    You can call it fear mongering but they are literally trying to do just that.
     
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    :roflol:

    Why are you posting DEBUNKED Disinformation?:bored:

    False.

    There is no mention of the Insurrection Act in the second COVID-19 stimulus bill. There is no connection between the bill or the president's ability to deploy the military inside U.S. borders.

    The stimulus bill approved this week is 5,593 pages long. There is no mention of the Insurrection Act. This is false information, apparently being spread online by Trump-supporting accounts with a history of sharing misleading information and conspiracy theories.

    https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-does-stimulus-bill-nullify-insurrection-act-1556935

    Not a good look, spreading disinformation.:smh:
     
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    Or in other words, any cop that ever shoots a black guy is one of the bad cops.
     
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    FreshAir Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    times are changing, not a good time to be a bad cop

    and sadly bad cops are even giving good cops a bad name

    to change this good cops need to protect people from bad cops, as bad cops are criminals too

    good cops should never stand by and watch a bad cop slowly murder a handcuffed victim
     
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    Josh77 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    the “victim” murdered himself with drugs. Kneeling on someone’s neck won’t kill them.
     
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    Matthewthf Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    There is 2 bills and I read it was included by multiple news articles. I never said which bill it was included in and both bills were together.

    I'm going to say they have not read every single page and just want to post fake news but even if I'm wrong both bills are still a sham.
     
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    How long are you going to compare all cops to just one cop who arrested a guy who probably only had a few days to live because of his lifestyle?

    And how about a re-take on your post. Sadly, bad blacks are giving good blacks a bad name. To change this, good blacks need to protect people from bad blacks as bad blacks are criminals.

    Lemme guess, suddenly this sounds racist
     
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    Serious question. Would you want your daughter to marry a cop or Floyd? Would you prefer to live in a neighborhood surrounded by cops of Floyd types? Don’t dance around the questions, just answer them please.
     
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    There are counties in Oregon, poor red ones, that can’t even afford a sheriff. Taxes from Portland pick up the tab, as well as for their schools and other essential public services.
     
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    White flight in Portland? Never been to Portland have you? Portland is the Whitest major city in the United States. In fact, there seems to be Black flight as gentrification drives their rents to unbearable levels. There are no ghettos in Portland. The Portland area has been propelling Oregon to the top of the nation economically for years. Half of downtown Portland is the college campus of the state’s largest university. Of major cities, Portland has the greatest amount of parkland per capita. Its climate is such that a greater variety and higher density of vegetation grows in Western Oregon than perhaps any place in the country. Making it a natural wonderland. It is a wonderful place to live.


    Portland is nothing like Detroit. Detroit was built upon blue collar, manual labor, factory work. Portland has been built upon the creative and educated classes who have been having a rather oversized influence on the rest of the country. Everything from tennis shoes to microchips. Cancer cures to the latest in video games.
     
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    Portland's white Democrats have been exorbitantly skilled at running off poor people - most of all black poor people - out of their city. It isn't a racial jungle and is the Joe Biden vision of what the USA should be - rich white communities with them unfortunate black people off in their own poor black ghettos - rather than a multi-racial "racial jungle." (Joe Biden's own word choice.)
     
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    What "other words"?

    Your ridiculous statement makes no sense.
     
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    As far as the police go, the ones in Portland are probably some of the better ones, as far as being fair and just. They tend to get along well with the community. But there are a few. Going by the rate of news stories of such instances, it seems to me that the worst offenders are more likely to be abusive towards the mentally ill, and the homeless. I’m sure this demographic was well represented at the nightly protests against police brutality.

    The contract with the Police Union is coming to an end and a new civilian oversight committee has been approved by the voters by 80% of the vote. Reforms have been coming to the Portland Police department for years, part of it after a ruling by a federal judge. The last few police chiefs have been hired explicitly to reform the department. Every time there is a change, there is a big deal about officers leaving, but it never amounts to anything.
     
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    What Portland lacks in Blacks, they make up with Asians. Same with Seattle. In Washington Country, just to the west of Portland, there is a rather large Hispanic population. The rural parts of Oregon that always vote Republican are much, much Whiter, with almost no assistance for the poor. I don’t ever recall seeing a non-White person in the whole state of either Idaho or Wyoming. Montana either. Or the Dakotas, except for the Native Americans. Even Nebraska for that matter.
     
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    Who was talking about Blacks? This is the Portland police that we are talking about. Even though there have been instances of the killing of an unarmed Black man, just like every other large city, the more common complaint is the police treatment of the mentally ill, of which a large number of the homeless are, many of them Black. Many more who are White.
     
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    not sure why you ask, do you think victims only matter if you would "let" your daughter marry them?
     
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    get real, that was murder, sad some defend it
     

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