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Portland, Oregon mayor Ted Wheeler is aiming to re-fund the police, to the tune of $2 million, following a massive spike in homicides and other violent crimes.
The request is a clear about-face for Portland, one of the nation’s true epicenters in the “Defund the police” movement of the past year. Multiple liberal groups have been behind the movement, aiming to divert public money away from traditional police departments and instead use it for mental health treatment and “community development.”
Wheeler made the request Friday during his State of the City address. It also came just three days after a 42-year-old man was murdered in broad daylight in a city park.
As noted by The Associated Press, Portland city leaders voted to slash $16 million from the police budget in June. That included the total elimination of a gun-violence reduction unit.
Wheeler spoke to police Chief Chuck Lovell and other city officials about the potential of re-funding the department prior to his State of the City address.
The majority of Wheeler’s $2 million request would go toward hiring five more detectives and forming a uniformed patrol team with a focus on gun violence, KATU-TV of Portland reported.
“Gun violence” is just a leftist buzzword. It’s a way of blaming guns, instead of inept Democrat political faux-leadership, for the massive crime that infests our big, blue cities. Violence is violence no matter the weapon. A knife or a gun makes no difference – just ask the denizens of Londonistan if knives can be just as deadly.
Portland residents must be morons
Self-loathing white kneelers…
Yep
What Richard said
He will get re-elected. The police should tell the mayor to go screw off and combat the crime himself.
He did get re-elected. Ditto what Richard said.
Bwahahaha! Go soft on crime, get more crime. My Lord are Marxists stupid
He did get re-elected. Ditto what Richard said.
Beta Male Warning
If it wasn’t for all the sexual harassing and raping they do, you’d think that all DemoKKKrat “men” had their testicles removed…
Democrats are such morons. And the people who vote for them are even bigger ones.
Wheeler is a dipshit.
I feel badly for the people living there who didn’t vote for this. For the majority who vote reflexively for the progressive candidate, congratulations, you own it.
Yeah, I have an ounce of sympathy for those who didn’t vote for the morons, but they could move. As for those who vote for that crap: of course it’s sad that people are being hurt, but they are harming themselves. If they want to feel like they care as they destroy their own city, fine, just stay out of mine.
Kinda like the folks who voted for Biden.
What Richard said.
Let Portland burn to the ground.
This it how the democrats always do things: cut a ton of money where it’s needed (see every democrat president on military spending), spend that money elsewhere, then put a little back and claim they’ve increased the budget.
Criminal violence. Call it what is. But they won’t.
He won re-election because his opponent was an even more far-left nutburger who aligned herself with Antifa.
Surely no one saw this coming.
Biggest moron and pussy mayor i’ve ever seen