Seems Like Only 40 Years Ago…

Why, I can remember all the way back to before gentrification when the standard joke about Portland’s finest was:

Q: What do the cops call a traffic stop in North Portland?

A: Target practice.

Them were the days.

The latest scandal involves training material for crowd control that doesn’t specifically Portland’s dwindling black minority.

A lot of folks are probably wanting to cut the cops some slack, seeing as their training called for beating up hippies & featured a pig in full Community Police State body armor about to put the fear of his Christian God into some fool white female, who refused to stay down after the first point he tried to make.

Baby steps, they say. First we need baby steps.