Liberal cities and states are disintegrating before our very eyes. Portland, Oregon is an example of the consequences of elections.
In May 2020, Portland city commissioners voted to cut nearly $16 million from the police budget in response to complaints about police force and racial injustice. As a result: Portland had a 300% increase in murders from July 2020 to February 2021. In the first two months of 2021, 17 people were murdered — a 1,600% increase from the one murder reported during the same time period in 2020.
In 2022, Portland’s homicide number was higher than the city’s 20-year average.
It doesn’t help these demorat-run cities are electing Soros-backed prosecutors who refuse to properly punish the criminals.
Case in point: A career-criminal, PoniaX Kane Calles, shot and killed a security guard at Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center in Portland on Saturday. He was subsequently shot and killed by police in the neighboring city of Gresham. Calles had made threats to staff at the hospital in the days leading up to the shooting.
Calles (formerly Reginald Kane Jackson) had a lenghtly criminal record (which began in demorat-run California) that included:
- Attempted second-degree assault (for stabbing a man in the face with a knife; he was placed on probation for three years)
- Reckless driving
- Driving with a suspended license
- Third-degree criminal mischief (prosecutors dropped the charge)
- Attempted murder
- Robbery
- Battery
- Disorderly conduct
- Vandalism
Calles also had mental health issues (obviously).
Read the whole sordid story of this criminal’s background here at The Oregonian.
No amount of new gun laws would have stopped this guy. He was also ordered to undergo drug treatment and have a mental health evaluation. Obviously that didn’t happen or change his behaviors.
The only solution is to punish the criminals. Or try electing bureaucrats and politicians who care about punishing criminals and preserving law and order in their cities. Yet I’m not going to hold my breath that liberals will learn to do that in the near future. They never learn:
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