One note: Wheeler says in this clip that he'll check how many officers have been taken off street duty and placed on administrative jobs while their conduct toward protesters is being investigated. The bureau formally responded with a public rebuke of the directive.
The $15 million the council subsequently cut included funding for the gun violence reduction team, school resource officers and Portland police’s stake in the regional transit police division. Reduce the size of the police force now.
We must resource the basic needs of Black and African immigrant/refugee community members, right now!
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We must have democratic community control over safety and justice systems rooted in restoration and healing. Only 10% of respondents approved of Oregon Democratic Governor Kate Brown’s response to the protests, and even that was better than the 8% of respondents who approved of leftist Democrat Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler’s response.
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Stop using rubber bullets, teargas and flashbang grenades at protests. The majority of the council called for more comprehensive discussions of how to best reform public safety in Portland and expressed concerns over the layoffs that could result from a cut of that size. Establish open collective bargaining with police unions during the contract renegotiation, including community groups as a party to the negotiations. They must do everything in their power to compel police to stop their violence against our communities now, while we work to abolish police entirely.
Along with an overall cut, it must include: Defund Transit Police, which is part of the militarization of our public transit system. Portland police officers on bicycles at a Proud Boys rally in Portland, Ore., Saturday, Aug. 17, 2019.
Portland, Ore., has approved $4.8 million for a street response program touted by local advocates.
They said the cuts would have shown that the city’s elected leaders were responsive to the scores of residents who’ve called for alternative methods of enduring public safety that involve less policing. A group of white teenagers "baited" fishing poles with doughnuts and waved them over the fence to taunt officers. Aaron Mesh is WW's news editor. And she seemed tonight to sense that the uprising had become a force that could push through the reforms she championed. "It is because of you. Stop all sweeps of camps that shelter houseless people and the expansion of sit-lie regulations, and support a Right to Rest agenda that decriminalizes houselessness. Everton Bailey Jr. | The Oregonian/OregonLive, proposed $18 million cut to the Portland police budget, approved rerouting $15 million slated for the police budget, over the layoffs that could result from a cut of that size. Police pushed protesters back to make way for firefighters to extinguish a mattress fire.
(Wheeler's own leadership received low marks. On Thursday, the vote was taken; the Portland City Council voted down Hardesty’s proposal.
Wheeler put forward an alternative use for $2.1 million, urging that it be rerouted to keep open three temporary emergency outdoor camps for at least 135 people experiencing homelessness and to maintain portable toilets and hand-washing stations around the city. Its history is long and well documented.
“Voters ages 18-29 are the only group to approve of the protests, with 62% saying that they approve compared to 33% who disapprove,” DHM Research pointed out.
In the past, we have called for reform and regulation, training and increased community accountability. More than 150 people testified last week about proposals for changes to the city’s budget. "We’ll continue to talk about Black lives, but we won’t actually do anything to make Black lives better. Another quarter of them live elsewhere in the Willamette Valley and the rest are from other parts of the state,” Oregon Live noted.
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They said, 'What can we do?' “It’s disappointing that the status quo will reassert itself in this process,” said Hardesty.
We must keep our people housed and get our people housed. The need for strong, independent local journalism is more urgent than ever. As a people living in Black bodies, state-sanctioned violence, hyper-surveillance, and resulting disenfranchisement is a constant danger. Divest City Portland Cannabis Tax funds from the PPB budget and invest them into reparations for those harmed by the War on Drugs, which disproportionately targeted BIPOC communities for activities that are now legal. Hardesty's remarks were the latest signal of how much political leverage police departments and their unions have lost in American cities after a week of brutally cracking down on protests… "Until you.". Hardesty said she had received 12,700 emails this week from constituents supporting her call for defunding police units. Defund the Gun Violence Reduction Team, formerly known as the Gang Enforcement Team, which is still dedicated to over-policing Black Portlanders. As it has every night since Monday, portions of the crowd drifted over at nightfall from the more pacific scene on the waterfront to the standoff at the Justice Center.
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"Fuck yeah," he said. Give community oversight meaningful power in disciplinary actions and the dismissal of officers. We elect leaders, we elect the police commissioner. Aaron Mesh is WW's news editor. DHM Research stated, “At the end of the survey, we asked voters what word is a more accurate description of the events in Portland: 55% said riot and 37% said protest.”. Unite Oregon is a statewide, intercultural, movement-building organization which organizes and activates immigrants, refugees, people of color, the rural working class, and low-income Oregonians.