Brave and brilliant report. While dinosaur media obsesses over politicians' driving records, they miss one of the signal areas of Portland's dysfunction. It's one thing to mess around with "green" money-dumps and grants to dodgy non-profits--but this issue deals with the core responsibility of any government: the safety and security of its citizens and the control of the criminal subset who are part of any human society.
Loved Pam's remark about the city in 2020 and now. But that annus horribilis is still very much with us, especially with the pols who went along with the general insanity now vying for reups on the new city council. If you think a gaggle of 25-percenters will stand up to the darkest forces in the city...good luck.
The video, even if somewhat dated, says it all - uncontrolled chaos, disrespect, and delusion.
Thanks to Fitzsimmons for detailing the Kafkaesque labyrinthe that is "Portland Police oversight."
It really is an "upside down world" when a recently imprisoned child molester is about to become a lawyer and is being showed the levers of power by one of the disruptors in chief ("Prof" Aliza Kaplan of Lewis & Clark Law School.")
Not only does Portland disregard the decades of laws and rule designed to make public meetings "accessible" and "transparent," they seem to just make it up as they go along.
What is purpose of running "background checks" when it is considered an ADVANTAGE to have a criminal record, and seemingly the worse, the better!
Once can only hope an incremental improvement once Nathan Vasquez is finally allowed to take the office he won in May, but it is too much to expect one person to reverse everything.
Brave and brilliant report. While dinosaur media obsesses over politicians' driving records, they miss one of the signal areas of Portland's dysfunction. It's one thing to mess around with "green" money-dumps and grants to dodgy non-profits--but this issue deals with the core responsibility of any government: the safety and security of its citizens and the control of the criminal subset who are part of any human society.
Loved Pam's remark about the city in 2020 and now. But that annus horribilis is still very much with us, especially with the pols who went along with the general insanity now vying for reups on the new city council. If you think a gaggle of 25-percenters will stand up to the darkest forces in the city...good luck.
The video, even if somewhat dated, says it all - uncontrolled chaos, disrespect, and delusion.
Thanks to Fitzsimmons for detailing the Kafkaesque labyrinthe that is "Portland Police oversight."
It really is an "upside down world" when a recently imprisoned child molester is about to become a lawyer and is being showed the levers of power by one of the disruptors in chief ("Prof" Aliza Kaplan of Lewis & Clark Law School.")
Not only does Portland disregard the decades of laws and rule designed to make public meetings "accessible" and "transparent," they seem to just make it up as they go along.
What is purpose of running "background checks" when it is considered an ADVANTAGE to have a criminal record, and seemingly the worse, the better!
Once can only hope an incremental improvement once Nathan Vasquez is finally allowed to take the office he won in May, but it is too much to expect one person to reverse everything.