Yeah, he says its where his views began to change because he saw so many law abiding armed citizens with little violence.
My comment goes more to the fact that the Portland Press Herald is own by a far left progressive who his financing much of the dems work here in Maine along with his wife Chellie Pingree’s congressional career.
Portland is a very progressive city and Chief Craig was our first non-white department head. He came here from 28 years rising through the ranks of the LAPD. He was a nice guy, but betting money was that he would not stay long and sure enough a couple of years later we were embarking on another expensive nationwide search. We went in house and choose the deputy chief who has stepped up to a remarkable job leading the department.
Portland is a small city in the scale of America with just 66,000 residents so it was surprising that Chief Craig would come all the way here from LA. After two years he moved on to Cincinnati becoming their first black and non-Cincinnati bred chief.