Walkin' blues
This is kind of pitiful. It's headline news in Portland that there are going to be two cops on foot patrol downtown over the holidays. Like it's some kind of special thing. Isn't that what they're supposed to be doing all year long? And then the dopeys make sure to tell the crooks when the special thing will be over.
Starting on Monday and going through Jan. 3, 2024, a pair of officers will patrol the downtown core from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
“It gives us an opportunity to hear those concerns and hopefully continue to come up with good strategies to be able to mitigate some of that,” said Derrick Foxworth with the Portland Police Bureau. “The difference of being in a patrol car and being on foot, it gives you a different presence, it allows you to slow things down and interact with folks in just a different way.”
Wait – Derrick Foxworth? That Derrick Foxworth? The ex-chief with the kinky emails to the hired help? Dear God, please tell me it's his kid, at least. But even that's pretty weak.
Oh well, happy days are here again, folks. There are two cops on foot patrol downtown now, in a city of 641,000 with a police budget of $250 million a year. And they're there 'til 6 p.m., for six whole weeks! What wonderful breaking news.
Chief Day said he hopes this will make officers more approachable. He also said there would be no new resources dedicated to this program so the police bureau will be making do with the officers they have.
Oh yeah, "making do" with just a quarter of a billion, and doing a whole lot of not much. Some days it's just too obvious that this city is beyond screwed.
Rarely do I ever see a patrol car in the new Motor City, Portland. I can’t recall the last time! City is on a death watch. That I know
ReplyDeleteAs the good Dr. Wasserman advised lo those many years ago: Do not court the spirochete: yet here we are in the general paresis common to the tertiary stage.
DeleteI knew a woman whose father seemingly enjoyed the idiocy of his condition. I mean, he was beyond retrieval so really all one could do was spectate at his antic motions. So it is with Portland.
I'm sorry, let's talk about the evil and moronic Republicans and take our solace there.
Thanks but no thanks…What little shopping I’ll be doing will be in the much safer suburbs. Yesterday I saw at least 4 armed security guards WALKING around the parking areas at Bridgeport which was packed!
ReplyDeleteThey better be carrying backpacks full of Narcan because they are going to spent most of their time administering it to OD victims.
ReplyDeleteIt's impossible to police a city without officers out in the community talking to people and getting to know the neighborhoods. This has always been a problem in Portland. Cops only get out of their cars for donuts and coffee.
ReplyDeleteA city that condones open drug use, graffiti and permanent homeless camping should not be surprised when the “downtown” it once celebrated has relocated to comfortable, safe locations.
ReplyDeleteLet's get to the bottom of the Foxworth question.... the bald cop with that name I saw on TV last night mumbling from some kind of script he's memorized looked too young to be the old Fox, but I'm not ruling that out completely considering the many life enhancing drugs and procedures available to men these days....
ReplyDeleteIt’s former Chief Foxworth’s son. He’s a PPB Lt.
DeleteDon't paint it in such a bad light Jack - after 6pm a new crew of patrol comes online: Hondurian drug peddlers. You know, I bet if we offered them a few million dollars they'd clean up downtown real quick. So don't think of it as a problem, it's merely an ongoing negotiation with a new vendor.
ReplyDeleteAlso we don't want to criminalize criminal behavior because that is judgemental.
ReplyDeleteFYI, it’s ex-Chief Foxworth’s son, Derrick Foxworth Jr, who’s a PPB Lt.
ReplyDeleteDon't fret, Jack... I'm sure they'll be able to keep the vagrants and addicts away from Rubio's sure-fire-COVID-recovery Xmas ice rink downtown (10am - 6pm daily until New Years' Day). They'll be the ones wearing flannel...
ReplyDeleteI really miss the term vagrant
DeletePortland doesn't have the number of cops to make something like this anything more than symbolic. Just the numbers aren't everything, but there's a reason for decades the FBI has used a "standard" of 2 officers per 1,000 of population. Defund the police will never be successful as a half measure, it's time to go all the way. And return to feudalism. Which by the way is what these retail theft missions are.
ReplyDeleteThe only real genius I ever met once told me that he thought feudalism would return. When I see St Peter I’ll look him up and tell him he hit the nail on the head
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