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4 years ago
When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or insult, a nation turns its back on progress and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe. – Frederic Bastiat
Sarah Taylor
The Portland Police Bureau is asking for the community's help in ending a spike in violence across the city.
POLL: Will you be spending Christmas with your family or social distancing?
What's a brief history here?
According to Fox News, at least 850 shootings have been reported in Portland as of Dec. 24. The outlet noted that there were at least 59 reported shootings in December alone.
"As of Christmas Eve, this year's shootings had surpassed last year's by more than 116%, with 393 shootings reported in all of 2019, statistics show," Fox pointed out. "At least 53 murders have been reported in Portland as of Dec. 24 — the highest yearly total the city has seen in nearly 30 years."
What's happening now?
Portland Police Bureau Chief Chuck Lovell in a Dec. 16 video appealed to the public and insisted that the public needed to lock arms and "do everything we can together to break the cycle of violence."
"Gun violence has plagued our city at twice the rate of last year," he said. "On average, someone is shot in Portland roughly every two days."
"We've come together to mask up, to stay home to keep others safe. We have come together to do our best to stop the spread of a deadly disease," he continued. "Violence is also a disease that kills and our community is suffering the consequences."
"We cannot lose sight of the fact these are human beings who have died," Lovell added.
According to a report from KGW-TV, Portland Police Bureau Lieutenant Greg Pashley reported that there were at least 225 victims of gun violence in Portland in 2020 alone.
"The number of bullets that must have been flying around our neighborhoods, city streets, sidewalks — it's awful," Pashley said.
The bureau is now asking for a a community-wide effort and action to help put a stop to gun violence across the city after its gun violence reduction team was disbanded over the summer.
The team was dismantled after activists and gun control activists said that the bureau was guilty of racism in "stopping people of color disproportionately to others," the station reported.
Pashley later said that "[s]ocial services, government organizations, non-government organizations, church based [organizations]" are of utmost importance "so that people feel as if they have support and options other than to act out violently."
What else?
Sgt. Kenneth Duilio — who worked on the now-disbanded gun violence reduction task force for approximately 19 years — said that many of the killings are gang-related.
"Theyr'e all connected," he said. "And some of these connections don't just go back, like, for a few weeks or a few months. They go back years and years."
So suit up get out there and help...
The Portland Police Bureau is asking for the community's help in ending a spike in violence across the city.
POLL: Will you be spending Christmas with your family or social distancing?
What's a brief history here?
According to Fox News, at least 850 shootings have been reported in Portland as of Dec. 24. The outlet noted that there were at least 59 reported shootings in December alone.
"As of Christmas Eve, this year's shootings had surpassed last year's by more than 116%, with 393 shootings reported in all of 2019, statistics show," Fox pointed out. "At least 53 murders have been reported in Portland as of Dec. 24 — the highest yearly total the city has seen in nearly 30 years."
What's happening now?
Portland Police Bureau Chief Chuck Lovell in a Dec. 16 video appealed to the public and insisted that the public needed to lock arms and "do everything we can together to break the cycle of violence."
"Gun violence has plagued our city at twice the rate of last year," he said. "On average, someone is shot in Portland roughly every two days."
"We've come together to mask up, to stay home to keep others safe. We have come together to do our best to stop the spread of a deadly disease," he continued. "Violence is also a disease that kills and our community is suffering the consequences."
"We cannot lose sight of the fact these are human beings who have died," Lovell added.
According to a report from KGW-TV, Portland Police Bureau Lieutenant Greg Pashley reported that there were at least 225 victims of gun violence in Portland in 2020 alone.
"The number of bullets that must have been flying around our neighborhoods, city streets, sidewalks — it's awful," Pashley said.
The bureau is now asking for a a community-wide effort and action to help put a stop to gun violence across the city after its gun violence reduction team was disbanded over the summer.
The team was dismantled after activists and gun control activists said that the bureau was guilty of racism in "stopping people of color disproportionately to others," the station reported.
Pashley later said that "[s]ocial services, government organizations, non-government organizations, church based [organizations]" are of utmost importance "so that people feel as if they have support and options other than to act out violently."
What else?
Sgt. Kenneth Duilio — who worked on the now-disbanded gun violence reduction task force for approximately 19 years — said that many of the killings are gang-related.
"Theyr'e all connected," he said. "And some of these connections don't just go back, like, for a few weeks or a few months. They go back years and years."
So suit up get out there and help...
It mainly seemed to be peaceful protestors VS the police, the city govt VS the federal troops, and anarchists. Its much more complicated than that though, as even the mayor and the police were at odds with each other since the city wanted to appease the protestors but the police did not. Add to that constant clashes between far right and left and you get a terrifying combination where violence escalates constantly. As someone who is local to the area, it's really scary to hear those statistics, and it's even scarier to know that they are accurate.
I have seen how close the community can be and just how much good it can do. I just hope that it will be enough to change things for the better moving forwards and away from this terrible year.
I never travel there (or anywhere else), unarmed or incapable of defending myself.
So far I've been fortunate enough to NOT find myself dealing with these roaming mobs of domestic terrorists, OR suicidal fools trying to block my travel via the road/highway(s), but if that's how they choose to end their worthless life/lives?
Who'm I to deny 'em their fondest desires?
As-for our inept 'Law Enfarcement'?
Fuck 'em.
Fuck 'em all.
For all the 'Good Cops' out there? Why the fuck aren't THEY handling the (supposedly) few 'Bad Cops', and preserving the integrity of their Agency/ies?
When I was in the Marines, WE didn't put up with any bullshit from others in our unit(s), and believe me, if someone were stupid enough to persist? There are all sorts of creative ways to get them to change their maligned perspectives.
Sadly, Oregon has chosen to follow in the precise footsteps already laid-down by my own Native 'State-of-Insanity', aka "Commiefornia". I abandoned that State nearly 14 years ago, only to find my new stedding pulling the same shit, politically...
So, for every State being run into a 3rd World existence by the g-damned Democratic Socialists?
(can you tell I'm more'n a tad pissed-off 'bout all this bullshit?)
More rum.
That always helps!
'cept, Grizzly bears like eating deer, so...
::Locks-an'-loads mah .50 Barret...::
I'm all for reducing violence but how about a deal? If cops stop murdering unarmed people, we'll stop protesting cops murdering unarmed people.
The statistically likelihood of anyone being shot and killed by a police officer while being unarmed is negligible. None of you BLM fundamentalists bother to look at empirical data or statistics but base your dogmatism on isolated anecdotes. None of you seem to care about actual and persistent threats to black lives like inner city violence and intra-racial gangs that account for the majority of violent deaths among black people. You ignore all the government-supported mechanisms that continue to promote poverty and dysfunctionality in crucial supportive societal structures. You show apathy to minority-targeted abortions and to minorities that are not instrumental to or aligned with your political agenda. Your movement is fundamentally and intellectually bankrupt at its core in stark contrast to the original Civil Rights movement. It fosters a fraudulent and selective outrage that is entirely based on a Marxist meta-narrative of perceived systemic oppression with the primary intended goal of dismantling so-called "white" American culture and institutions rather than uplifting POC.