You'll be praying, all right

Think you're safe in Portland on a sunny Sunday morning? Well, my friend, you aren't. Here's a pathetic incident on Produce Row today:

Rinella was working at his desk Sunday morning at 8:30 a.m. when he heard car windows breaking. “He ran out to stop them and the three of them beat him up pretty bad and held a 9mm to his head,” said a post on Rinella Produce’s Facebook page. “This city needs law and order.”

In January, Mayor Ted Wheeler announced a “90-day reset” for the Central Eastside with a concentrated city effort to address safety and livability concerns that have become so chronic that several of the neighborhood’s mainstay businesses have threate[ne]d to leave....

Joe Padulo, the owner of Portland Wine Storage on Southeast Alder, said Sunday that the reset had an effect in spurts as city workers swept through. Response times improved, but it hasn’t made the neighborhood feel fundamentally safer, he said.

He said a man set fire to a homeless camp two weeks ago outside Office Depot. Two days later, there was another tent set up in the ashes of the fire. Business owners are constantly cleaning up graffiti. Their cars are regularly vandalized. And they’re often forced to confront people directly, if carefully, he said.

On Saturday, a broken-down truck appeared directly in front of his business, apparently towed there by another car. The windshield is smashed in, and it’s loaded with junk that’s now spilling onto the sidewalk, Padulo said....

Padulo said he and his employees spend time every day calling the city.

Worthless politicians, worthless cops, what do you expect? And when the charter children get themselves elected to the City Council using tax dollars for their campaign garbage, it's not going to get any better, that's for sure. If you were trying to chase businesses out of the city, you couldn't do it any more efficiently.