Portland police responded to four shootings and four major traffic incidents Friday night and Saturday morning, in what officers labeled an “extremely busy night” that left them unable to respond to some lower-priority 911 calls.
The shootings left at least five people injured and two dead in a murder-suicide. The traffic incidents left one person dead and four people wounded, including two with life-threatening injuries.
Why might the police have had trouble responding?
Portland was one of the few places to defund the police by $15 million. The efforts to lynch police officers over battles against violent rioters and left-wing mobs led to massive resignations and retirements leaving the city with the smallest police force on record in a generation.
Violent crime continues to rise and Portland cops are shorthanded.
At about 7:45 p.m., Portland police assisted Oregon State Police as that agency pursued a stolen ambulance that traveled at least 25 miles from Woodburn to Portland.
Oregon State Police say they responded to a single-vehicle crash on Interstate 5 but the driver fled, stealing the ambulance that arrived on scene and driving it to Portland. The driver used the ambulance to ram a patrol vehicle and strike a building, Oregon State Police said, before being arrested just outside of Portland.
Portland police assisted by searching for any potential hit-and-run victims. Oregon State Police arrested Noor Mohammad Baheej
Defunding Akbar.
Infidel says
Why does anyone even bother working in Portland PD? If they are cops and can do nothing else, maybe they can move next door to Idaho and start careers there? Let Portland and Oregon deal w/ their own mess
gravenimage says
Some Portland police love their city–and some Portlanders actually *do* support their work. Not enough, though.
James Lincoln says
Infidel,
Yes, the younger ones should leave.
But:
Very difficult, financially, for Portland Oregon police officers to leave their jobs and start somewhere else if they are very close to vesting their retirement pension.
Full retirement is generally age 53 with 25 years of service.
https://www.oregon.gov/pers/MEM/Pages/Eligibility-to-Retire-OPSRP.aspx
gravenimage says
Things Are Going Well in the Capital of Police Defunding
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Sadly, none of this surprises. Crime has skyrocketed in most cities in the past two years–but this is worst of all in cities with “Defund the Police” movements.
For instance, in Seattle in 2021 crime was up 10% from the previous year, which itself was up 13% from 2019–and violent crime rates were even worse. This doesn’t happen in a vacuum.
Walter Sieruk says
It’s blatant folly foolishness wickedness and outright madness to defund the police force.
This is because if the police are defuded crime and chaos of the most heinous sort will drastically increase. Murders and also rapes and the murder of the rape victims will rise. Likewise there will be many more kidnappings along with the severe torture then murder of the innocent people who had been kidnapped.
The will be many more drive by shooting and also home and business beak in’s along with the stabbing , torture and murders home owners and people in those places of business.
There is be more city and even town riots along with the arson , looting, rapes and murders that are a nature part of that evil and hideous rioting despicable and vile mayhem.
This would be most tragic to even put in a mild way. Therefore the police should never ever be defunded .
What more they should be given more funds and other forms of support.
Walter Sieruk says
Those hooligans who shoot police officers are heinous villains of some of the worst sort
They obviously have murderous intentions and those thugs will have to answer to God for their criminal behavior , Romans 14;12, unless to totally change their ways , as in repent and come to Jesus, they will enter forever the fires of hell, Luke 16:19-31, For a murder “will not inherit the kingdom of God.” Galatians 5:21.[N.K.J.V.]
Such violent bloodthirsty deadly destructive hooligans are nothing original , they go as far back as to ancient times.
For example , in Romans 3:15-17 it reads “Their feet are swift to shed blood; destruction and misery are in their ways; and the way of peace they have not known.”
Walter Sieruk says
As for those heinous thugs who act out in violence against the police and also fight them .
Those lawless hooligans so very ignorant that they might no know that in fighting to police they are sinning by violating the ordinances set down by God Yet that’s no excuse for their criminal ans despicable behavior.
For the Bible reads “Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities . For there is no authority expect from God , and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. Therefore whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God , and will bring down judgement on themselves.”
Romans 13:1,2. [N.K.J.V.]
James Lincoln says
Defunding the police results in non-punishment of low-level and mid-level crimes.
Sensing no backstop, criminals will commit escalating levels of crime until they commit a horrific felony that cannot be ignored – even in a Democrat-controlled city.
Ironically, these types of criminals will end up being locked up – exactly the opposite of what the “defunders” had envisioned.
Walter Sieruk says
That Muslim politician Ilan Omar is working with the leftists to defund the police force.
This shows that truth of the sinister activity what is known as the Leftist/Green alliance.
The only logical reasons that that stealth jihadist Omar strives to defund the police would be to make ease for the violent jihadists to scheme and carry out mass murder Islamic terrorists attacks undetected and carry those deadly jihad attacks through. .
The other reason that Omar would like to defund the police is ti terribly increase crime an d destruction in this Western nation of America.. Then after much chaos would come ,she hopes, the elimination of US Constitutional law and have it be replaced with Sharia law..
OLD GUY says
Just what did the de-funders envision? Do they really believe that crime will just go away without police and law enforcement? It is NOT the police or the homeowner or shop owner fault that a person decides to steal, assault or murder another person. Defud the Police, I don’t get it.
gravenimage says
I think this brakes down, into three main groups, OLD GUY.
Those completely unrealistic naifs who actually believe that crime will not be a problem if only the police were gone–these are generally utopian anarchists; those who don’t think that defunding is actually going to happen, but who like to take a “virtue signalling” stance; then, worst of all, those who *know* what a disaster this will be for society, including the very community they are supposed to be helping, and *don’t care*.