Is Portland over?

It gets worse: no hope for stumptown.

Hard drug users running amuck in Portland, seemingly with no end in sight.

https://www.wweek.com/news/2023/01/10/three-appalling-incidents-start-the-year-on-a-bleak-note/

They're dropping like flies.

A good start

Voters always get exactly the government they deserve.

After Oregon voters passed Measure 110 in 2020, decriminalizing small amounts of hard drugs, including heroin, meth, oxy and cocaine, Portland homicides increased 54.4% in a single year, and fatal and non-fatal drug overdoses increased 39.4%.

Portland Homicides 2019: 36
Portland Homicides 2022: 101
280% increase

Portland Unintentional Opioid Overdose Deaths 2019: 280
Portland Unintentional Opioid Overdose Deaths 2021: 745
266% increase

The main thing is protecting the sewers and sanitation systems.

If the gangs take those over, then they can take over everything.


All sanctuary city systems are likely overloaded.

Socialism cost is not baked in yet.

I'm guessing the funding to support socialism has been coming from the Federal Government not state nor local.


If Portland issues are related to losing religion, then I'd expect San Fran and Seattle to fall shortly afterward, since they are right behind Portland's loss.

Quote: Tanko

Voters always get exactly the government they deserve.

After Oregon voters passed Measure 110 in 2020, decriminalizing small amounts of hard drugs, including heroin, meth, oxy and cocaine, Portland homicides increased 54.4% in a single year, and fatal and non-fatal drug overdoses increased 39.4%.

Portland Homicides 2019: 36
Portland Homicides 2022: 101
280% increase

Portland Unintentional Opioid Overdose Deaths 2019: 280
Portland Unintentional Opioid Overdose Deaths 2021: 745
266% increase

Looks like the common reaction is to refuse offers to move off the streets in Portland.

Quote:

Navigation outreach teams engage with dozens of homeless Portlanders during an average week. Those who outreach teams make contact with are offered an immediately available shelter bed, a personal ride to that shelter bed with their immediate belongings, complimentary storage for additional items, and other services.

For the most part, homeless Portlanders we make contact with decline shelter offers for a variety of reasons. Many share concerns that congregate shelters may not accommodate their pets, allow for significant other to stay together, or they prefer the independence of sleeping in their own tent.

https://www.portland.gov/wheeler/shelter-sites

You don’t hear much about those antifa turds anymore. Are they still running amuck?

Oh, antifa is still around, but they're back to doing what they did before getting political: playing at being college students at Portland State and Reed, working as barristas, waiters and cooks, and of course most are unemployed drugged out wastoids living in their parents' basement.

Things look bleak for the immediate future of Portland; homelessness everywhere, druggies dying right and left, and the Trail Blazers suck: a stumptown trifecta.

The once vibrant downtown is now pretty much a wasteland.

Thanks, BLM...

I heard Portland passed ordinance banning and fining people for tent camping on the sidewalk, but police don't have manning to enforce it consistently.

Quote: rxwine

I heard Portland passed ordinance banning and fining people for tent camping on the sidewalk, but police don't have manning to enforce it consistently.

Does it even matter even if they had the manning? Where I live such things are enforced, but police write tickets, homeless disappear into the ether and never pay or show up to court. Warrant is issued sometimes, but they are homeless so good luck finding them, and if you do the jail does not want them because they just cost money. So they can ticket all day, the campers won't care.

Sadly with homeless (camper types) really the only punishment that matters is incarnation since there is nothing you can take from them (and you probably don't trust them with community service).

Technically, there are no homeless in NYC, because the law requires the city to provide shelter to anyone who asks for it.

Current cost is about $70,000 annually per person. The equivalent of paying each homeless person $105,000 annually pre-tax.

It's a sweet deal. No work requirement. No requirement to try an find a job. They can shoplift thousands of dollars from stores every day. Sell the stolen goods and the streets, and return to the shelters at night, Instinct to work for a living, bred out of them generations ago.

When Bloomberg was Mayor the city paid to send homeless anywhere they requested. Including Paris. Cheaper to do that, than pay to provide shelter and medical care for them.

The program worked very well until de Blasio ended it after realizing they were shipping democrat voters out of the state.

That, plus they found if they kept them here, they could build homeless shelters and turn them into political patronage mills.

One former Mayoral candidate, and City Council Speaker, is the CEO of of the city's largest provider of shelter for the homeless.

Mayor Bloomberg Gives Homeless One-Way Tickets Out Of NYC