Imagine that someone is trying to grab your 7-year-old child out of your arms, and police take 40 minutes to respond. Some parents in Portland do not have to imagine, because that is what happened.
Fox News has the details. Family stopped alleged child kidnapper as police say staffing shortage delayed response up to 40 minutes. So here is what happened:
Portland police say a staffing shortage contributed to a 30- to 40-minute response to an alleged attempted kidnapping of a 7-year-old tourist at a downtown waterfront park over the weekend, with newly released police data showing the city typically has about 59 patrol officers on the streets at any given time.
Police took 30 to 40 minutes to respond because of staffing issues.
Hughes said the bureau was operating with 41 patrol officers across Portland that night, along with 10 officers working overtime, a roughly 24% reduction from planned staffing. He said there are no reserve patrol officers who can be called in immediately when multiple major incidents unfold at once.
This is Colion Noir's video Portland Police Just Told Citizens They’re On Their Own
This is the statement made by the Portland Police Department:
We don't have the appropriate amount of police officers to handle the amount of demand for police services.
Translation: "Don't count on us to be there when you need us, because there are not enough cops to go around."
The attempted kidnapping was not the only example cited in the video. The video is only 6 minutes.
59 officers? Portland is NOt just a suburban small town it is a city with about 650, 000 people. Are they kidding? I work at a college in NJ with a population of about 13-1400 and it has pretty much the same number of officers.
ReplyDeleteAs someone said... Portland is ground zero for Defund the Police
DeleteIf the victim had used a weapon to defend themselves against the kidnapper the cops would have been there in 2 minutes...or less.
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