Portland has been a disaster for the past several years. The city was the scene of some of the most violent (and eventually deadly) protests in 2020. It partially defunded the police and did away with a police unit focused on stop gun violence. And in November of 2020, the state or Oregon took another wrong turn when it passed Measure 110, which decriminalized the use of hard drugs. Both decisions have been disasters.
The decision to defund the police resulted in skyrocketing violent crime. Even when Portland’s hapless mayor tried to reverse course and rehire police, they couldn’t find people willing to take the jobs.
Meanwhile the decriminalization of drugs also created new problems including a rise in overdoses and even more problems with drugged-out homeless people on the city’s streets. Even the homeless drug addicts were giving the city mixed reviews:
“Portland is a…
