Portland resident says, "We are on our own".

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A doctor was attacked by a homeless person and it took the police 20 minutes to respond to her call for help.

Luckily someone was with her who managed to scare off the homeless person.

She doesn't blame the police but she does blame the city for defunding them and not leaving enough officers to protect those in need.

A Portland doctor said a homeless man knocked her unconscious while walking in the city, and then she waited more than 20 minutes without a police response.

"I do not hold the police accountable for this at all — I hold our city accountable for defunding the police," Mary Costantino, a radiologist, told Fox News. "We don't have enough police force to protect our citizens, and we did this to ourselves."

The attack happened shortly after 10:30 Friday night. One minute, Costantino was walking in Southwest Portland with a friend. The next, she woke up on the ground, blood pouring out of her mouth. She was sure she was about to be killed and immediately dialed 911.

"I thought we were still being sort of attacked in some way," Costantino said. "I was like, 'I'm going to just try to verbalize a report of what's happening, so there's some record of how I died.'"

As the situation cleared, Costantino realized she was not dying. She had been struck in the face by an aluminum water bottle hurled by a man, she said. There had been no yelling, no sign of danger to give Costantino time to defend herself. She credits her friend with saving her from further harm.
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https://www.foxnews.com/us/portland...er-blames-city-slow-police-response-ourselves

This is the left's Utopia folks, don't vote for them again.
 
Tinkerpeach said:
A doctor was attacked by a homeless person and it took the police 20 minutes to respond to her call for help.

Luckily someone was with her who managed to scare off the homeless person.

She doesn't blame the police but she does blame the city for defunding them and not leaving enough officers to protect those in need.



https://www.foxnews.com/us/portland...er-blames-city-slow-police-response-ourselves

This is the left's Utopia folks, don't vote for them again.
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The defunding was slight and short lived.


[FONT=&quot]“But two years after an initial push to defund the Portland Police Bureau, City Council approved a record $249 million PPB Budget — an amount more than $12 million higher than it was in fiscal year 2019-2020 before the racial justice protests of 2020 factored into budgeting discussions. While discussion of defunding was central, and accompanied by intense debate, police criticism and protests, the Portland Police Bureau only saw a brief dip in funding. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]PPB’s total $225.5 million budget in the 2020-2021 fiscal year — covering July 2020 through June 2021 — was still the third-largest in bureau history at the time, trailing only the 2019-2020 budget by $11.4 million (4.8%), and 2018-2019 by $6.2 million (2.7%).”[/FONT]
https://www.streetroots.org/news/20... an,2020 factored into budgeting discussions.
 
Tinkerpeach said:
A doctor was attacked by a homeless person and it took the police 20 minutes to respond to her call for help.

Luckily someone was with her who managed to scare off the homeless person.

She doesn't blame the police but she does blame the city for defunding them and not leaving enough officers to protect those in need.



https://www.foxnews.com/us/portland...er-blames-city-slow-police-response-ourselves

This is the left's Utopia folks, don't vote for them again.
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It's a horrible tragedy. Even in the best of circumstances police response times are slow. This is why people need to arm themselves. The problem is if she shot the attacker she would be the target of leftist stupidity. Instead of addressing the actual problem they would focus on the need for "gun control". This country is fucked up.
 
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Phantasmal said:
The defunding was slight and short lived.


[FONT="]“But two years after an initial push to defund the Portland Police Bureau, City Council approved a record $249 million PPB Budget — an amount more than $12 million higher than it was in fiscal year 2019-2020 before the racial justice protests of 2020 factored into budgeting discussions. While discussion of defunding was central, and accompanied by intense debate, police criticism and protests, the Portland Police Bureau only saw a brief dip in funding. [/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#333333][FONT="]PPB’s total $225.5 million budget in the 2020-2021 fiscal year — covering July 2020 through June 2021 — was still the third-largest in bureau history at the time, trailing only the 2019-2020 budget by $11.4 million (4.8%), and 2018-2019 by $6.2 million (2.7%).”[/FONT]
https://www.streetroots.org/news/20... an,2020 factored into budgeting discussions.
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Funding doesn't translate to actual cops on the street.

Why Portland has fewer cops now than any point in past 30 years

The Portland Police Bureau currently deploys fewer sworn officers — 789 — than at any point in the past in 30 years, according to the bureau and an analysis of records by The Oregonian/OregonLive, even though the city added more than 165,000 new residents over that period.

Why? One big reason is the city’s growing struggle to hire new cops and retain the ones it has.

Ten years ago, Oregon’s largest city had nearly 1,000 working sworn officers, from those driving patrol up to the chief. But that number stands below 800 today – in part because city leaders have shrunk the number of authorized positions but mostly because an unprecedented 127 sworn positions are vacant.
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https://www.oregonlive.com/data/202...-resident ratio,its recent wave of departures.

All that funding did was give the leaders of the police force raises.
 
No one pushes defunding law enforcement more than republi'cans'. It is near a constant refrain in republi'can' politics now, from the top down.

Republi'cans' who will have real power to act upon it, should they gain control of the levers, as opposed to the Dem ones who called for it, who never had any power to act upon it.
 
The problem of hiring and retaining police officers is nationwide, it’s happening in blue and red cities and states. The job of police just isn’t attracting people as it once did.
 
The far left Democratic Socialist loons want to do to America what they have already done to Portland, Seattle, N.Y., Chicago, LA, and other Democratic controlled cities across America. They are jello soft on crime and when crime explodes out of control, they try to deny that their policies caused the explosion.

They have done the same thing with their sanctuary cities and open borders. NYC is now in the process of removing sanctuary status due to overloading of their hotels and other facilities. No bail, defunding the police, riots, anarchy, looting, burning, assaults and murders, no prosecutions for violent criminals…all far left policies and the results of those insane policies.

Telling thugs that they can steal up to 1000 dollars worth of stuff and they won’t be prosecuted…this is the loons’ policy.

The far left Democratic Socialist loons’ policies do not work and cause harm to all Americans.

It’s past time to tell these loons to go away.

Vote them out of office.
 
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Phantasmal said:
Oh, please then, lay it out for me.
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Defunding when talking about police encompasses the overall police ability to respond to situations whether that's a reduction in funding, equipment, personnel or new policy that makes their job harder to do.

When the big push to defund police happened after the Floyd case people weren't just talking about cutting their budget, they were talking about reducing police presence.
 
Tinkerpeach said:
Defunding when talking about police encompasses the overall police ability to respond to situations whether that's a reduction in funding, equipment, personnel or new policy that makes their job harder to do.

When the big push to defund police happened after the Floyd case people weren't just talking about cutting their budget, they were talking about reducing police presence.
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Indeed.,

The out of control crime is the direct result of these far left nutters' policies.
 
Earl said:
Indeed.,

The out of control crime is the direct result of these far left nutters' policies.
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And the result has been people and business fleeing blue states and running to red states.

We warned them this would happen but they are too stupid to listen to reason.
 
Tinkerpeach said:
Defunding when talking about police encompasses the overall police ability to respond to situations whether that's a reduction in funding, equipment, personnel or new policy that makes their job harder to do.

When the big push to defund police happened after the Floyd case people weren't just talking about cutting their budget, they were talking about reducing police presence.
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No, they weren’t, they were talking about using trained personal to respond to some calls and using police more effectively.
 
Phantasmal said:
No, they weren’t, they were talking about using trained personal to respond to some calls and using police more effectively.
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No they weren't, they wanted less officers on the streets patrolling.

And what the hell is trained personal if they aren't cops?

They wouldn't have the authority to apply the law to anyone.

You want groups like the Guardian Angels patrolling the city streets again?

And how do you use police more effectively then letting them respond to emergency calls.

It took this lady 20 minutes to get a cop to respond after being assaulted, is that using police more effectively in your opinion?
 
Tinkerpeach said:
And the result has been people and business fleeing blue states and running to red states.

We warned them this would happen but they are too stupid to listen to reason.
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Indeed and some of the far left loons will never admit that the out of control crime in America is the result of their own policies.

To be succinct...the out of control crime in America is the result of the far left's insane policies.
 
Tinkerpeach said:
No they weren't, they wanted less officers on the streets patrolling.

And what the hell is trained personal if they aren't cops?

They wouldn't have the authority to apply the law to anyone.

You want groups like the Guardian Angels patrolling the city streets again?

And how do you use police more effectively then letting them respond to emergency calls.

It took this lady 20 minutes to get a cop to respond after being assaulted, is that using police more effectively in your opinion?
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It sad you have to be educated on so many subjects

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/a-better-path-forward-for-criminal-justice-police-reform/

Eliminate no knock
police trained in dealing with domestic violence and mental health 9/11 calls
Mental health aid for police to reduce stress
Improvement of police data collect
Training for police to deescalate situations
Teaching proper restraint methods
 
Phantasmal said:
It sad you have to be educated on so many subjects

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/a-better-path-forward-for-criminal-justice-police-reform/

Eliminate no knock
police trained in dealing with domestic violence and mental health 9/11 calls
Mental health aid for police to reduce stress
Improvement of police data collect
Training for police to deescalate situations
Teaching proper restraint methods
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It is even more sad that you don't have the ability to educate anyone on any subject.
 
Earl said:
Indeed and some of the far left loons will never admit that the out of control crime in America is the result of their own policies.

To be succinct...the out of control crime in America is the result of the far left's insane policies.
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Yes the blood is on their hands.
 
Defunding is just using some funds to hire mental health experts to deal with people who are having a mental incident. Cities and towns that have tried it find it smothers a lot of violence. The right has been told that, but it interferes with their dishonest narratives.
 
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