Posted on 06/07/2021 10:22:59 AM PDT by John Semmens
Portland, Oregon Mayor Ted Wheeler's decision to try to mollify the violent mobs besieging the city by agreeing to "defund the police" is taking a big toll of black lives. The budget for police was cut by $27 million and the number of officers reduced by 120.
Crime is now considerably worse than it was last year. Shootings for the first four months of this year have doubled to 348 compared to the same months last year. Homicides have increased seven-fold since last year. A disproportionate number of those murdered have been blacks. A peaceful demonstration to mark the anniversary of George Floyd's death while in the custody of Minneapolis police degenerated into a riot in which windows were smashed, fires were set, and police were attacked with thrown bottles and rocks.
The Mayor is now lamenting the "depressing environment that has overtaken our city. Stores are boarded up. Foot traffic is down by 85%. Citizens need to come out and retake their community from the gun-wielding thugs who now run rampant."
Wheeler was quick to clarify that "retaking the city doesn't mean citizens should arm themselves. If we wanted armed people to fight crime we wouldn't be in the process of defunding the police. We need people to follow the non-violent examples set by Gandhi and Martin Luther King. I realize that this might seem risky, but I'm confident that the criminal element will eventually tire of murdering non-violent protesters. And voters can be reassured that my armed bodyguards will keep their Mayor safe." For those keeping score, both Gandhi and King were shot to death by thugs.
In related news, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has a plan to reduce crime and incarceration: "stop building jails. If there is no place to put criminals there will be fewer criminals. Combined with defunding police the contingent of those among us who are classified as criminals will shrink. First, you can't get a criminal record if you're never arrested. Second, you won't need jails if prosecutors refuse to prosecute. Third, without a safe place to reside between crimes, members of the criminal class will be walking free and have many opportunities to kill each other. Eventually, the criminal element will disappear by the natural attrition taking its toll on this violent subculture."
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Sorry but I’m missing the satire here.
I’m sorry, but I am unable to believe, or even imagine, that the harm being inflicted on our cities and inhabitants isn’t deliberate. For reasons that can’t be explained, liberal Democrats want our cities mired in filth and degeneracy, and innocents to be raped, butchered and murdered. There’s simply no other explanation. There definitely has to be an end game, and it won’t be in anyone’s best interest.
The rest is the gospel truth, since I live here, although while 120 cops have been disposed of, another 80+ have resigned to find jobs in other suburban jurisdictions.
Whole neighborhoods no longer have cruising coverage, but since the civilians don't know it, it's good for the gang bangers. They have been flooding north from Kali, on I-5, the new Oregon Trail.
Yep. Was a dumb move. As soon as something happens they call the cops and then when they arrive they protest and throw stuff at them. Normal citizens are being held hostage by these idiots. And the leaders are even dumber. They doubled down on dumb.
People have responded by leaving Portland.
Portland, OR has had the largest population decrease(by percentage) in the last year of any major US city.
Housing starts are actually DOWN in Portland, OR in the last year. Even NYC has a positive(3%) increase over the previous year. Portland is negative.
OMG Wheeler is so lost...
Yes. Most people cannot face up to evil. They find and attribute justifying motivations to these evil scum. A Hitler or a Stalin cannot arise without the cowardice of otherwise decent people. Neither can a Clinton or a Biden. Yet these vile politicians who have left a wake of destruction everywhere they go are enthusiastically supported by the victims. The DemocRATs are evil, vicious psychopaths engaged on a purposeful agenda of death and destruction. The majority of voters are incapable of even seeing it.
Schools are collapsing and betraying the society. Yet the voters come out in droves to protect the school establishment. Humans welcome their oppressors.
Look at Rome. Get a decent emperor and he’s assassinated in short order. Get a bad one and they go on for years. Humans have done this forever.
Trump and Reagan were fortunate aberrations. The Bidens and the Carters and the FDRs are the norm.
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