Portland police disband property crimes unit, sparking alarm among grocers, retail crime investigators : Portland

They're willfully r-slurred wingcucks who are aware that their demands are contradictory and stupid, they're just lashing out about the fact that the closed door decision by cops to be hands off is having its intended political effect, and there's nothing Portlanders can do about it. It's particularly effective in Portland because there's a strong lefty base of people who truly believe in abolishing the police that freak out at any intervention on homeless encampments and the various crimes drug addicts get up to.

The more these dummies whine in exasperation about how these lazy cops should get up off their asses and start arresting people the dumber they will look on a national level. They know they're losing the propaganda battle and no amount of hand-wringing over supposed "Nazis" like The Proud Boys (aka Gavin McInnes' gay s*x club) will change that.

Fundamentally I think police need to have harsher penalties when they frick up, but trying to fight police as a concept and gimping their ability to operate in hostile political climates is only going to result in the libertarian wet dream of the expansion of private security forces under the control of whoever is wealthy enough to hire them.