Guess where all the tents come from

If you're a hopeless drug addict anywhere west of the Mississippi, Portland's a mighty attractive place to move these days. Possession of a week's supply or more of hard street drugs isn't a crime – you just get a ticket that you never have to pay – and even if it were a crime, there are no cops to enforce the law anyway. And so you can live in a tent shooting up all you want, never having to worry about detoxing in a jail cell.

There is plenty of stuff to steal, and property crime is not prosecuted. If you wig out and start climbing through people's windows to sleep in their kids' beds, you may be picked up, but you'll be back on the street in a couple of hours.

This is the "humane," "progressive" Portland way. Welcome, junkies!

Okay, nothing new there. It's a familiar story by now. It's been this way for a couple of years.

But yesterday we learned that Multnomah County has been handing out free tents, tarps, and sleeping bags to enable people to do this. 

It's so ridiculous, so sad. And yet the voters will re-elect those county commissioners again and again and again.

What we are doing here is not humane. Quite the opposite. Lazy, is what it is mostly.