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In other words, I do not think that you can pay an educated person enough to work for an organization that is socially despised by their policies and actions.
And the argument about not paying enough. Isn't the base pay $64,000 a year, full bennies and a pension? Maybe the PPB can't pay enough compared to Blackwater (who their recruitment pools seems to be competing with).
Lastly here are some for the PPB to "to live within their means":
1) do something to reduce the payouts of the law suits they settle out of court
2) get more cops on bicycles instead of buying them brand new squad cars to burn gas in
3) does Portland really need cops on horses
4) adopt true community policing principals
It was a pleasure meeting with Mayor Tom Potter earlier today and presenting my case along with the pictures and statistics of crime rate in Portland that were approved by the Mayor himself.
However I fear that those statistics will soon go up if they still intend on closing this store and what they have offered the Police Department will all be for not; as that corner on 10th and Morrison will no longer be lit up as before at night and accessible to a great amount of crime unlike now.
Then in order to counteract that the police will have to work even harder to keep up with the rise in crime in that area, patrol it nightly as well as daily, giving them even less time on their hands, and only make them come back and whine for more money and vacation time as they just did.
Pardon me if I'm incorrect but doesn't that seem like a total loss in tax payer's money all the way around?
Surely there are more logical ways of spending our money than paying the police to clean up messes that were not made by us but rather caused by the pure desire of wanting to turn our city into something we don't want in the first place.