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Defund the Police: It has helped Portland more than quadruple annual murder rate
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This protest where police cars and shop windows were smashed as well as fireworks and Molotov cocktails being thrown was in May of 2017 — back in the days when the streets of Portland were safer than they are today.
So what happens if city leadership constantly hammer all police for the sins of the relatively few and also underfund law enforcement? The short answer: It becomes Portland.