Portland going for the gold in shootings for the year

The U.S. Women's Soccer team may not get the gold this time around, [kneeling for the National Anthem is bad karma] but the record for homicides is looking good for the bad guys as 53 have already occurred this year and it's looking to break the all-time high record of 70 from back in 1987.

In spite of the surge in murders, Portland Police seem unable to find cops willing to put their careers on the line to fill positions on the newly re-constructed "gun violence" team so it looks like guns will continue to be violent.

Portland Police Association Executive Director Daryl Turner says that one reason cops of the Rapid Response team resigned is that some elected officials did not support officers during the more than 150 days of [mostly peaceful] riots in the liberal city.

The department is struggling to find naive officers willing to serve on its newly resurrected gun violence unit which had been shut down over a year ago when the Black Lives Matter movement along with antifa thugs, were looting, destroying property, intimidating and killing people for not being Marxist anarchists.

The Portland's Gun Violence Reduction Team, once prestigious, is now considered a trap for cops who simply want to do their job as they come under intense scrutiny and are considered guilty and need to be punished before exonerating evidence unfolds.

Homicides have surged since the unit was disbanded last summer after the morons of the Portland City Council voted to slash the police bureau’s budget by $15 million. Then crime rose faster than a high-fat turd in a kiddy pool. So leftist Mayor Ted Wheeler (D) proposed a new unit in March renamed the "Focused Initiative Team." 

Yeah, changing the name should do it.

Fourteen team openings were announced in May, but only four cops applied and none have as yet been accepted.

The FIT team also includes its own angry citizen advisory board just hoping to find something to pin on a cop. In the past, officials were angered over the old unit for going after people of color who happened to be committing the crimes they were being pursued for, but now the new team include the "ability to identify and dismantle institutional and systemic racism in the bureau’s responses to gun violence."

"They’re demonizing and vilifying you, and then they want to put you in a unit where you’re under an even bigger microscope," Turner said.

In voting to disband the old team tasked with investigating gun violence last year, Portland officials cited data showing the 52% of stops conducted in 2019 were for Black people, who represent 5.8% of the city’s population. But they didn't show whether the stops were due to the police identifying the person being stopped by melanin level. 

Jami Resch, assistant chief of the Portland Police Bureau’s investigations branch, argued that the unit’s past work was beneficial in minority communities, as shootings have disproportionately impacted the 23% of Portland’s population that is non-White.

Police departments across the nation have seen a rise in resignations and retirements as part of the aftermath of sweeping calls by Marxist protesters and Marxist lawmakers alike to "defund the police."

From April 2020 through March 2021, Police Executive Research Forum, a think tank based in Washington, D.C., recorded an 18% increase in resignations and a 45% increase in retirements compared to the same time period a year prior.

You'd have to be crazy to become a cop nowadays. 

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