It is a shame one of the best large city police departments on the West Coast where other major cities once sent their new recruits a couple of weeks for urban police training. This police department before May of 2020 had the best arrest records of any major city on the West Coast. The politicians like Ted Wheeler out of Portland and their Metro city council put politics ahead of policing. If you had infraction in Portland your actual resting place ended being at the Multnomah County Jail. Want an example of this just watch old episodes of COPS and JAIL.
Due to political correctness most of the Portland police officers due to lack of staffing refuse to arrest for lower level crimes like shoplifting and tagging a business.
Many large businesses have moved out to lack of law enforcement and refusal to arrest chronic law breakers. Portland used to be place criminal did not want to come to.
If this continues Portland and both Seattle will be where mental illness stays. By the way turning out the lights are impossible due to fact these lights are created by solar panels with electric batteries.
