easyt65
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Portland will no longer enforce many traffic violations
"Portland police officers will no longer be directed to stop drivers for low-level traffic violations.
The funny thing about traffic stops, as most any police officer will tell you, is that they frequently lead to arrests for far more serious crimes. Handing someone a ticket for a cracked windshield might score the city twenty bucks in revenue, but when the driver turns out to have multiple felony warrants or their trunk is full of illegal firearms, you’ve accomplished a lot more in terms of public safety.
Portland has a lot of problems, but “too many traffic stops” is probably several hundred places down on the list. The government has lost control of portions of the city and their police are regularly under attack. Law and order has taken a beating and Ted Wheeler hasn’t done anything about it. Does he really think that this announcement is going to appease the people who are literally and figuratively trying to abolish the police? It’s a fool’s errand."
Also, during the terrorist Antifa and Marxist BLM riots Democrats bailed out of jail terrorists who not only engaged in looting, destruction of public / govt property, and arson but those who were also arrested for attempting to murder / burn local police and federal agents alive .... while demonizing and inciting violence against police officers.
The failed Marxist Democrat 'Defund The Police' campaign is only part of the reason crime has exploded all over the US - their refusal to enforce laws and put criminals behind bars has emboldened the criminals.
"Portland police officers will no longer be directed to stop drivers for low-level traffic violations.
The funny thing about traffic stops, as most any police officer will tell you, is that they frequently lead to arrests for far more serious crimes. Handing someone a ticket for a cracked windshield might score the city twenty bucks in revenue, but when the driver turns out to have multiple felony warrants or their trunk is full of illegal firearms, you’ve accomplished a lot more in terms of public safety.
Portland has a lot of problems, but “too many traffic stops” is probably several hundred places down on the list. The government has lost control of portions of the city and their police are regularly under attack. Law and order has taken a beating and Ted Wheeler hasn’t done anything about it. Does he really think that this announcement is going to appease the people who are literally and figuratively trying to abolish the police? It’s a fool’s errand."
Also, during the terrorist Antifa and Marxist BLM riots Democrats bailed out of jail terrorists who not only engaged in looting, destruction of public / govt property, and arson but those who were also arrested for attempting to murder / burn local police and federal agents alive .... while demonizing and inciting violence against police officers.
The failed Marxist Democrat 'Defund The Police' campaign is only part of the reason crime has exploded all over the US - their refusal to enforce laws and put criminals behind bars has emboldened the criminals.