Residents of Portland, Oregon, are waking up to the fact that they have a target painted around their homes. Since the local sidewalk dwellers chased many of the retailers away, including big ones like Walmart, local addicts will soon be forced to grab food and other supplies from their better prepared neighbors.
A new target
Retail giants Target and Walmart are pulling stores out of high crime cities like Portland, Oregon. Most of the mom and pop merchants are being forced to do the same. They can’t even make ends meet. Not with half their inventory walking out the door without being paid for.
The city refuses to provide the necessary police protection. Even if cops were allowed to make arrests, the progressive prosecutors all seem to be allergic to putting criminals in jail.
The taxpaying residents of Portland “are sounding the alarm on the city’s crime crisis after more than 300 criminal cases in the area were dismissed, including some related to felony theft, possession of a stolen vehicle, gun charges and more.”
The Portland Oregon Walmart stores will be closing due to rampant crime throughout the city. The CEO left a scathing note posted on the front doors to Governor Kate Brown stating that the city has declined into chaos. pic.twitter.com/PKBBC10SFY
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Residents say “they wish they were surprised by the news, but activist district attorneys and a flawed justice system have culminated into a far more significant dilemma over time.” One which makes them into the target. Prosecutors are happy to point the finger at the “public defender shortage.” It makes it look like they would prosecute if they had the chance, which is “misinformation.”
“We’re paying these public defenders slowly, and we’re paying them badly, and they don’t want to work for the state. The state controls this,” area resident Angela Todd explained to Fox News.
The defender shortage is being used as a “scapegoat to overlook other issues contributing to the crime crisis.” Ones which put a target on everyone’s back.
Catch and release
The Portland City Jail might as well have a revolving door on it. “There’s so many problems in our justice system. Our vicious and continuous catch and release program, for example, is horrendous. We arrest people, we release them, they have a warrant, they fail to appear, and it just keeps going and going and going… It’s disgusting,” Ms. Todd relates.
Damian Bunting knows he’s a target already. He “previously called out the city’s alleged drug problem in an Instagram reel posted in January, demanding action while pointing to an encampment outside his own front door.”
Along with the target, the city supplies the darts. “The city of Portland and, by way of that, the state of Oregon, it continues to facilitate it [the problem]. Measure 110, providing free needles and drug paraphernalia.”
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“We have created – and when I say ‘we‘, I mean the people who were here well before I got here – have created an asylum for people who are seeking refuge to live this way of life, and it’s having horrible consequences.”
Their “activist district attorney” supplied the red paint to mark out the bullseye. “Right now, you’re seeing multiple businesses pull out of the Portland area, everything from Starbucks to Walmart, they’re taking their business across the border to Washington or just into neighboring counties.” All because of the crime.
It’s clear that with retail moving out, thieves will need a new target. “I think the only natural thing for [criminals] to do is to go into the houses. I think that, for the people that are living in these areas, unfortunately in my neighborhood as well, we’re going to see a rise in home break-ins, we’re going to see a rise in car theft and vandalism and petty crime, and it’s going to become much more dangerous for the people that are living here, that voted for this.“
