Antifa-Controlled Portland Police Bureau Faces Mass ‘Exodus’ As 50+ Officers Quit Over Insane and Dangerous Far Left Policies
As Portland trends further and further from Democrat to Marxist, the rank-and-file officers of the Portland Police Bureau have been put in the unenviable position of being ordered by the mayor to cater to the far left protesters and rioters like Antifa.
At the same time the officers also face a more and more irate public, angry at the police bureau’s propensity for ceding the city to the protesters on a regular basis.
Staff for Portland Commissioners Jo Ann Hardesty and Chloe Eudaly met Thursday with national Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson to strategize over the city labor contract with the Portland police officers’ union, an official in Hardesty’s office said.
Mckesson, 33, met with the officials as part of his work managing Campaign Zero, a group that reviews police union contracts nationwide and points out what it says are policies that shield officers from accountability for misconduct.
The official in Hardesty’s office said Mckesson gave “a detailed presentation about policing, contracts, accountability and their relationship to violence.”
Also present at the meeting were members of the Albina Ministerial Alliance Coalition for Justice and Police Reform, a faith-based group seeking greater police oversight.
Baltimore-based Mckesson wears many hats: Civil rights activist, author, podcast host and one-time mayoral candidate, among other work. He was in Portland on Wednesday for a taping of his podcast, Pod Save the People, for which Hardesty was a guest. Hardesty’s office asked him to extend his trip to give a briefing on the police contract, the official said.
Mckesson tweeted his take on Thursday’s meeting to his more than 1 million Twitter followers, saying he led a talk with “activists and advocates” to “discuss avenues for structural change.”
This has all culminated in what one inside source calls an “exodus” of officers who are retiring early, transferring to a different agency, or otherwise leaving the bureau.
Another anonymous source, who happens to be a former Portland police officer, tells The Gateway Pundit that he knows of about 50 officers who are retiring within the next month.
The officer cited the political landscape forced upon them by Mayor Ted Wheeler. “They are all leaving as soon as they can. Evidently there was a catch in the pay period this time that gave this month’s retirees a bit more, so that may have pushed the numbers up a bit,” the anonymous source tells us, “But the Jeff Niiya fiasco didn’t help. I had a command level officer tell me that was the straw that broke his back. Now this business of bringing in a BLM activist to “advise” on the contract… You can’t make this stuff up!”
The Jeff Niiya fiasco, you may recall, is the trumped up “scandal” involving PPB Lt. Jeff Niiya communicating with pro Trump activist Joey Gibson about the organizing of Gibson’s protests in Portland. As the message chain went public, Niiya was sharply criticized by the mayor, in the media, and by the community for doing his job and gathering information. He was removed from his duty post as commander of the Rapid Response Team (riot squad). Officers in the bureau are learning that if you’re a good cop, if you follow your orders, if you follow standard procedures, you will be thrown under the bus by your commanding officers and the mayor when it’s politically convenient.
This culmination of the backroom politics at the police bureau has resulted in over 100 vacancies, as more officers are retiring than being hired, and a quarter of all recruits are failing to make the cut.
KOIN 6 reports that the city passed a budget calling for 50 new officers, but less than half of those positions have been filled. Mayor Ted Wheeler has a plan: “We’re reaching out to communities of color, we’re looking to recent immigrants to the United States, we’re looking to more women.”
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