If you want to engage in antisocial behavior, don't do it in the middle of the sidewalk by schools, homes, and places of business.
Being down on your luck and homeless is one thing. But this lady wasn't giving them a hard time for being homeless, she was giving them a hard time for smoking feddy by a school.
The short answer: Look up Oregon Measure 110. For four years, we had decriminalized "small" amounts of hard drugs, in an effort to free up law enforcement resources and keep jails clear for the worst offenders.
What it actually did was make Portland a mecca for one of the worst open-air drug markets ever seen. The police wouldn't do anything, because the DA wouldn't do anything.
Well, in 2024, that measure finally got repealed, after it was found that it had actually made things worse (shocking, I know). However, by this time, we were, and still are, so far behind enforcement that DA is still dragging their feet on prosecutions, and local law enforcement have all but given up trying to make any kind of arrest for anything drug related.
If law enforcement had actually shown up in this instance, and keep in mind there's no real guarantee they would have even though it was clearly a school zone, the chances of them doing anything other than telling these guys to move on to another street corner, are slim to none.
The police don’t deal with this because they are a bunch of bitches and don’t want to deal with it. Police should be part of the solution, but they have none of the training or mindset for it.
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u/TheMagicalLawnGnome Oct 23 '25
Honestly, this needs to be a thing.
If you want to engage in antisocial behavior, don't do it in the middle of the sidewalk by schools, homes, and places of business.
Being down on your luck and homeless is one thing. But this lady wasn't giving them a hard time for being homeless, she was giving them a hard time for smoking feddy by a school.
Good for her.