WCSO Backs Away from Portland

 

The Washington County Sheriff’s Office has made the decision to limit their support of the Portland Police Bureau. The Sheriff does not have a beef with PPB.

According to the internal memo, the decision has nothing to do with any bad blood between the agencies – rather the current political climate in Portland and what the agency’s legal counsel calls an “anti-police attitude.”

Portland, OR — also known as (AKA); Little Beirut, Havana on the Willamette, Potland, and Porkland (due to city hall corruption) — has become a sanctuary city for the perpetually aggrieved Leftist. The city council, including the mayor, believes that the PPB interferes with the ambiance of anarchy. What’s the problem with blocking traffic, tossing some rocks and bottles, and setting some dumpster fires to demand tolerance. Come to think of it, a burning dumpster should probably appear on the city seal.

Sheriff Garrett told FOX 12, he considered all the factors the agency’s legal counsel presented him, when forming his decision.

He said he will authorize deputies to respond to calls in Portland only in the event of a life-threatening emergency involving a police officer or an active shooter situation.

WCSO also confirms its deputies will no longer be present at protests held in Portland. But, according to Sheriff Garrett, there will still be cross-agency cooperation in investigations.

The WCSO provided police services to Portland residents when the PPB was busy whenever a woke celebration was taking place in downtown Portland.

Sheriff Patrick Garrett enacted the new directive Thursday.

“This has been in the works for the past year, since the Flores-Haro civil suit.”

That case, involving Washington County tactical officers who were called in to help Portland police serve an arrest warrant, ended with a bystander being shot.

It also resulted in a $7 million-dollar verdict against Washington County in a civil case. The county ultimately paid out a little more than a million dollars to the plaintiff.

A Multnomah County Grand Jury cleared the deputies of wrongdoing, but the report is still sealed because the DA’s office is still trying to decide if Mr. Flores-Haro will be charged in the incident. Mr. Flores-Haro was more than just a bystander, he confronted deputies with a pistol. According to some sources, police officers identified themselves and told him to go back inside his home. He may have fired a shot or two at deputies. Until that report is released there is no way to know the full story.

The judge in the civil suit reduced the award to $1 million. The attorneys for Flores-Haro wish to challenge the reduction of the award, but cannot at this time while charges are pending against their client.

“If we’re engaged in a use of force event in the city of Portland the likelihood that costs are going to be significant as a result of that are just higher,” he said.

The agency’s Senior Assistant County Counsel, Elmer Dickens, explained why in the internal email sent on Thursday.
In it, he writes, “the makeup of the Portland jury pool and the anti-police attitudes of many residents appears to have a large impact upon the DA’s ability to successfully bring charges against suspects that are injured in police use of force cases.”

If you get a chance to visit Portland, miss it.

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  1. Susan Quinn Contributor
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    Excellent post, Doug. And I am thrilled that the Washington Sheriff didn’t worry about political correctness himself! Sometimes you just have to put your foot down and say, enough is enough; I’m not endangering citizens or deputies. I am very impressed! Thanks.

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  2. GLDIII Temporarily Essential Reagan
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    Doug Watt:

    If you get a chance to visit Portland, miss it. 

    But I really enjoyed my visits to Portland back in the 90’s. It’s a real pity what they have done.

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  3. Pony Convertible Inactive
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    The sad part of this is, one of the best, if not the best, social programs to help the poor is good police protection.  The first thing people need to get started on a path to lift themselves out of their situation is a safe community.  Without it, it is almost hopeless.

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  4. Doug Watt Member
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    GLDIII Temporarily Essential (View Comment):

    Doug Watt:

    If you get a chance to visit Portland, miss it.

    But I really enjoyed my visits to Portland back in the 90’s. It’s a real pity what they have done.

    Downtown Portland has changed. It’s too bad, it was pedestrian friendly, and is in a beautiful location.  

     

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  5. OkieSailor Member
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    GLDIII Temporarily Essential (View Comment):

    Doug Watt:

    If you get a chance to visit Portland, miss it.

    But I really enjoyed my visits to Portland back in the 90’s. It’s a real pity what they have done.

    Amazing, stunningly beautiful location. Amazingly ignorant, not to say criminal, local administration. Tragic waste of natural resources. Even more tragic for the sane citizens who are caught up in the results of this insanity through no fault of their own. For those who voted for these insanities, I can only hope they are capable of learning from the consequences; that can only come by experiencing them, sad to say.
    The county sheriff did the only rational thing.

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  6. Doug Watt Member
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    The vast majority of Portland is in Multnomah County, there are some Portland neighborhoods located in Washington County. Washington County is west of Portland, and Multnomah County.

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  7. ctlaw Coolidge
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    Trump should have teased Kim Jong Un: “My people tell me your missiles can’t reach Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco.”

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  8. Larry3435 Inactive
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    Doug Watt: Portland, Oregon also known as (AKA); Little Beirut, Havana on the Willamette, Potland, and Porkland

    You missed “Portlandia.”

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  9. Doug Watt Member
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    Larry3435 (View Comment):

    Doug Watt: Portland, Oregon also known as (AKA); Little Beirut, Havana on the Willamette, Potland, and Porkland

    You missed “Portlandia.”

    Ah yes, Portlandia, there are two Portlandia’s. The television series, a documentary, not a comedy. Then there is the statue of mythical Portlandia perched on the City of Portland office building. A building whose architecture can be best described as Reichstag Jukebox.

    She is pointing to an empty parking spot on the street below, another myth in Portland.

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  10. The Great Adventure! Inactive
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    Maybe the WCSO wants to participate in the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force.  The Psychotic City of Portland insisted the PPB pull out.

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  11. C. U. Douglas Coolidge
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    I can’t help but agree to this, but I’m sad to see my home city get this bad. However, it’s not unpredictable. For the last two decades the City of Portland has been led by leaders with Big Ideas and whose sympathies who go towards the more radical elements. 

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  12. TallCon Inactive
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    ctlaw (View Comment):

    Trump should have teased Kim Jong Un: “My people tell me your missiles can’t reach Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco.”

    I feel bad for liking this.  But I did.  I’ll deal.

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  13. Jon1979 Inactive
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    OkieSailor (View Comment):

    GLDIII Temporarily Essential (View Comment):

    Doug Watt:

    If you get a chance to visit Portland, miss it.

    But I really enjoyed my visits to Portland back in the 90’s. It’s a real pity what they have done.

    Amazing, stunningly beautiful location. Amazingly ignorant, not to say criminal, local administration. Tragic waste of natural resources. Even more tragic for the sane citizens who are caught up in the results of this insanity through no fault of their own. For those who voted for these insanities, I can only hope they are capable of learning from the consequences; that can only come by experiencing them, sad to say.
    The county sheriff did the only rational thing.

    Beautiful locales seem to really both attract and bring out the crazy in progressives, even more so if those places are in temperate climes, where bad weather is rarely an obstacle to bringing the crazy 24/7/365. And usually the only way for things to change is for the actions of the angry progressives to so negatively affect the community’s overall quality-of-life that other people — including those who initially may have been sympathetic — rebel and finally vote in people who change the culture.

    It will be interesting to see how the people outside of Portland in Washington County react, as well as the majority of the people inside of Portland, who now won’t have WCSO coming to their police department’s aid. If the majority shrug it off as no big deal, then the recent quality-of-life declines will continue, because the people haven’t reached their level of intolerance yet.

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  14. Rodin Member
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    (sigh)

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  15. RufusRJones Member
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    Jon1979 (View Comment):
    Beautiful locales seem to really both attract and bring out the crazy in progressives, even more so if those places are in temperate climes, where bad weather is rarely an obstacle to bringing the crazy 24/7/365. And usually the only way for things to change is for the actions of the angry progressives to so negatively affect the community’s overall quality-of-life that other people — including those who initially may have been sympathetic — rebel and finally vote in people who change the culture.

    Economists actually have a term for this but I forget what it is. You have a nice place,  so people don’t want to leave. Then you can tax the crap out of them. This seems sort of related.

    It’s happening in Minnesota. We have nicer summers Than most of the Midwest. Some places have great amenities and get rid of the snow pretty effectively. Parts of it are less windy than the Midwest typically is. So we are turning into California-stan. Government graft, socialism, and crazy people. For the first time ever, we are really worried about the gun grabbers.

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  16. Jon1979 Inactive
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    RufusRJones (View Comment):

    Jon1979 (View Comment):
    Beautiful locales seem to really both attract and bring out the crazy in progressives, even more so if those places are in temperate climes, where bad weather is rarely an obstacle to bringing the crazy 24/7/365. And usually the only way for things to change is for the actions of the angry progressives to so negatively affect the community’s overall quality-of-life that other people — including those who initially may have been sympathetic — rebel and finally vote in people who change the culture.

    Economists actually have a term for this but I forget what it is. You have a nice place, so people don’t want to leave. Then you can tax the crap out of them. This seems sort of related.

    It’s happening in Minnesota. We have nicer summers Than most of the Midwest. Some places have great amenities and get rid of the snow pretty effectively. Parts of it are less windy than the Midwest typically is. So we are turning into California-stan. Government graft, socialism, and crazy people. For the first time ever, we are really worried about the gun grabbers.

    Austin’s like that here in Texas — everyone wants to live up in the hills on the west side of the city and towards Lake Travis, so that’s where your largest collection of progressives tend to be (Austin also has the other two requirements for attracting progressives — Large University and State Capitol, since the former is the place where they like to recruit young people to their causes, and the latter is where the laws are written, so that you and other really, really smart people can tell everyone else how to lead their lives).

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  17. RufusRJones Member
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    This isn’t exactly the same,  but look at Florida. They almost elected a freaking socialist for governor. That guy was scary. Good looking and well spoken. He would never even come close to sounding as stupid as AOC.

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  18. The Great Adventure! Inactive
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    RufusRJones (View Comment):

    This isn’t exactly the same, but look at Florida. They almost elected a freaking socialist for governor. That guy was scary. Good looking and well spoken. He would never even come close to sounding as stupid as AOC.

    In Oregon the socialist part is a given.  Shoot, two mayors ago they had an openly gay pedophile in Portland and couldn’t kick him out of office.  Oregon votes on the Integrity Scale – the lower your score, the better your chances of getting elected.

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  19. TeamAmerica Member
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    GLDIII Temporarily Essential (View Comment):

    Doug Watt:

    If you get a chance to visit Portland, miss it.

    But I really enjoyed my visits to Portland back in the 90’s. It’s a real pity what they have done.

    You’ve both misspelled it. It is correctly and realistically spelled Portlandia.

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