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Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler weighs seizing control of all city bureaus (www.oregonlive.com)
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[–] mahaska@kolektiva.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

@jordanlund

#WTF #PDX #Portland

In other words, he wants to become a dictator? No details in the article but it doesn't sound good.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Makes me wonder if the police chief resignation is related...

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In other words, he wants to become a dictator? No details in the article but it doesn’t sound good.

PPB is basically a white nationalist network operating with state funding. To the point where they were looking to bring back retirees because they couldn't find officers not associated with white nationalists. Could be.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

From what I understand, the big drag on hiring is pot use. You can't access federal law enforcement systems as "an illicit drug user" and as far as the feds are concerned, it doesn't matter that it's legal in Oregon.