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Joshua Marquis's avatar

As Fitzsimmons points out, it is an outrageous lie to claim no police officer has been convicted of criminal misconduct since the 70s in Oregon.

I was a prosecutor in Eugene, Bend, and Astoria and I sent at least half a dozen once-cops to jail for various misdeeds. If Renaud lies about that, he’s likely lying about other claims.

Just as absurd is the denunciation of police for their rare use of deadly force. The whole concept behind armed police, existing in almost every nation, is that the government trains and commissions officers to do just that - use deadly force, if necessary to save others.

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Richard Cheverton's avatar

Add to Pam's brave report: most members of the progressive media in town have never answered a 911 call with a cop, either.

As a very young reporter in Chicago, I rode for a night with members of a police squad that patrolled the city's then-unfashionable west side. I'll never forget a call for a person with a gun at a certain address. It was a rundown two-story building. Inside was a stairway lit by a single dangling lightbulb--a set from a horror movie. At the top was a closed door.

The cops climbed up. Rather casually, I thought; they didn't have their weapons out.

It turned out that there was no gun.

But there could have been.

You can't pay anyone enough to do that job.

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