To SGT. Passadore:

Your comments were very PPB vs. citizens.

Let me make something painfully clear to you:

There is no PPB vs. citizens. You work for us. We are your boss. You cannot stand against us or you will police some other city.

Are we perfectly clear?

Does Tony Passadore even live in the city of Portland? If not, then he isn't a "stakeholder" that should get to participate when we make our laws and rules for how we want OUR city employees to behave. All the cops should go back to Woodburn or Estacada or Battle Ground, or wherever they live and spend their lobbying time in a city and state where they pay taxes and can vote.

Well technically, Number 6, being employees of Portland they do pay taxes here.

But everything else was spot-on. ;)

Yeah, I hate it when employees unionize and try and to get better conditions for themselves. That's awful.

I really really hate the, "you work for me" argument. It's so lazy and disingenuous.

"I walk out in the street every single day and people look at me with a level of distrust"

they look at you with distrust because someone dressed just like you... maybe with different intentions than you... fell on, tazed, and smashed James Chasse Jr so badly that they broke 15 of his ribs in 23 places (not counting multiple head wounds, etc)... and we have, as a community, waited 4 years for an answer as to how this could have happened in our city...
if you change the way you dress, or the way that the people that do things like that dress, maybe we wont distrust you anymore.
thanks
Patrick

Well, Sgt. Passadore, you also work for me - and you have my permission to tell Kathleen Sadat to get a life already.

And @NumberSix - what is UP with the hatred of suburbs? I've got no idea why you think a Portland suburb is so foreign, but we're all one damn community. It's not like they're flying in from Cuba or North Korea or something. You need to get out a bit more...

It was disheartening for me to hear all the amazing testimony at last weeks City Council hearing on this issue and then be told that that council felt the need to wait to hear what the Human Rights Commission had to say. We were all there together- the African American community, the Latino community, the LGBTQQI community, and the poor community- and we said in one voice that we have waited long enough and we are demanding police accountability!

It seems that if the council had recognized that and acted accordingly, we might live in a city that doesn't have the need for a separate human rights commission.

Reymont,

I live in the city. I came back to the Portland area for school and work. But I did attend middle school and high school in the Portland 'burbs.

An I can assure you we are not all one community. Compared to say, Sherwood, we have different demographics. We have different racial statistics. We have different types of homelessness. We have different tolerances for being close together and dealing with neighbors. We have different ways of getting around town.

An officer who owns a home in Sherwood pays property taxes there and puts his kids in school there. He votes for someone in a non-Portland school board, city government and county commission. He shops at local store and spends his salary there. He is more likely to be obligated to an HOA to determine what color he can paint his house. He sees less homeless people there. He is less likely to have an african-american as a neighbor. Even his drinking water comes from a different source. His child is less likely to see a homeless person/pedestrian/Different person as they are driven to school (rather than taking Trimet or walking). Voting statistics suggest that the Sherwood resident holds different political views than the majority of Multnomah County.

This leads to some serious differences in attitude when dealing with life on the streets of Portland. Some differences are good, some are bad. But you will admit that there are differences.

So when Tony Passadore or one of his officers wants to take up half a meeting whining about what he wants, the first question that a commission or council or neighborhood meeting should ask him is 'are you even from here'? Because where he choosesto live, who he chooses to live around and why he doesn't live in the city that is paying him a six-figure income are important factors in whether they should listen to the rest of what the officer has to say.

all your base are belong to us.