It's the obvious outcome of having one of the most compromised and openly racist/fascist police forces in the country. It's actually kind of impressive how often Portland comes up if you are doing research about fascist and white supremacist movements in the US.
Remember this was the state whose founders were so racist they were against slavery because they wanted it to be illegal for black people to even exist in the state.
Yeah I know it's pretty much the default here but there are degrees of shittiness between departments. And this isn't a some cops are good post AT ALL just saying the ones in the PNW are a very especially bad subsection of an already bad institution.
It's the obvious outcome of having one of the most compromised and openly racist/fascist police forces in the country. It's actually kind of impressive how often Portland comes up if you are doing research about fascist and white supremacist movements in the US.
Remember this was the state whose founders were so racist they were against slavery because they wanted it to be illegal for black people to even exist in the state.
In the sense that the Pacific Ocean is compromised by water
Yeah I know it's pretty much the default here but there are degrees of shittiness between departments. And this isn't a some cops are good post AT ALL just saying the ones in the PNW are a very especially bad subsection of an already bad institution.