Something the Portland Police Bureau did in 2021 has bothered me ever since.

“We needed to create a stir to get some change, to get them [city council] to fund us back up. And I mean, that’s the honest truth. I know, that could make things more dangerous. I don’t know. But at the same time, we needed some change.”

  • Jordan Lund@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The Portland police budget, consistently, has been around 1/4 of a billion dollars a year. Even Hardesty’s “cut” wasn’t a reduction in the budget, it was a reduction in the increase for the NEXT budget.

    So the question we ALL need to ask is if they aren’t doing traffic enforcement, they aren’t doing gang or gun enforcement, they definitely aren’t doing drug enforcement, the bike theft taskforce is disbanded, and they aren’t responding to 911 calls, what exactly ARE they doing with 1/4 billion a year?