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Mayor Ted Wheeler is feeling increasingly iffy about his role at the Portland Police Bureau.
“One of the great oddities of our form of government is that I am… maybe the only person in the United States who is both a mayor and the police commissioner,” Wheeler said at last week’s city council meeting. “And I will write a book on this subject someday, because it is fraught with peril and contradictions.”
It may be the only thing Wheeler and his critics agree on: That the guy elected on a platform of police reform shouldn’t also be running the police bureau’s internal operations.
