The PPA is supposedly a professional organization, why is it using the same communications strategy as my grandmother who locks her car doors every time a person of color walks by.
The PPA’s chosen form of communication speaks volumes about the level of competence and seriousness they bring to discussions.
They don’t host community meetings.
The don’t perform outreach functions.
They don’t help their members keep up with the latest developments in policing.
They rarely provide press releases to the public.
They don’t have anything resembling a message plan.
Their communications “strategy” is making reactive rants posts on Facebook.
This strategy helps them obscure from Portland how little support in reality they have from Portland residents for their backwards ideas and actions.
This strategy allows them to piggy back on Facebook’s network of police cult extremists to delude their external engagement as “an outpouring of community support.”
This strategy allows them to leverage “engagement from around the globe” to affect Portland civic discussions (not an uncommon strategy for Law Enforcement tOday.)
It’s clear they have zero interesting in actually serving the Portland community let alone protecting it. Just look at the years of their commenters’ calls to harm against Portlanders on their page and posts.
In reality our civil servants who put their mental and physical health on the line for the ideal of creating a space where Portlanders can thrive have been poorly served by Darryl Turner and the PPA leadership for a decade.
It’s clear PPA leadership only serve themselves, they’ve spectacularly failed to protect their members interests, let alone Portland’s residents.
If you can’t play anything but checkers, at least learn fucking the game.
It’s time for the PPA to be dissolved and officers allowed to join a larger public employee union for truly effective representation.
The PPA is none of that. The PPA is one thing: The police guild. A union. They are not a community group. They do not serve or protect Portland. They exist to serve and protect their union members, aka PPB.
More or less what they said, but don’t lump the PPA in with other unions. Unions built this country, and the PPA isn’t behaving as a union.
They are basically running what’s called “protection racketeering.”
PPA is a corrupt organization whose primary function is to create measurable benefits for their members by extorting Portland through the direct and indirect threats of harm and violence.
Essentially all they say is, “nice city you have here, it’s be a shame if something were to happen to it, perhaps we could come to some sort of arrangement…”
They may be a union in name, but they’re normal functions are DEFINITIVELY the same as a mafia. Let’s just call them a stupid mafia.
This is would be reinforced if some how they were caught coordinating public violence, forging public records, engaging in public fraud, accepting favors/bribes for “official” actions, intimidating public officials, misusing public resources for private benefit, repeatedly leaking sensitive and confidential Police information for private gain… you get the idea.
No es un delito calmo mi apetito
No, I think I will lump PPA and all other unions together. Because, they’re unions. Unions all have the same goal, regardless of the profession: To protect their members. None of them are looking out for a non-union member. They will happily let you think that they’ve helped you too (because at the end of the day that benefits them — see, you’re defending them already), but any benefit a non-member reaps is purely accidental or coincidental.
You may like what Union A is doing and dislike what Union B is doing, but that’s solely your biased, emotional view. Both Unions A and B are just looking after their own best interests and protecting their members.