The data comes from the Portland Mercury’s public records requests (2018 & 2021) and from FiveThirtyEight’s national analysis of 75 police departments using EEOC & Census data. Why not engage with ideas and do your homework before making personal attacks? Have a good day.

Point taken. I stand corrected on that framing.

Per the Portland Mercury’s public records investigation, only 18% of PPB’s 864 officers lived in Portland in 2018. PPB is now down to 817, but with no residency requirement—officers don’t even have to live in Oregon—there’s no reason the pattern has changed.

A survey of 800 municipalities found police residency requirements only modestly improved diversity & had zero measurable effect on performance or crime rates. As Prof. Umbach at John Jay College put it: “It’s a simple solution thrown at a complex problem.”

““My entire life in elected office” — girl, that’s 13 months. Thirteen months of purity tests, calling colleagues racist for disagreeing with you, and mocking older council members. Nobody matched your stride. They just got tired of being smeared. That’s not leadership. That’s a TikTok brand.

Novick voted to move $2 million from police to parks. That’s not the behavior of someone doing the PPA’s bidding.

Police respond to the worst moments of people’s lives: domestic violence, active shooters, and missing kids. Unions help retain experienced officers who handle these crises. Weaken those protections and you lose the people communities depend on when it matters most. Reform yes, abolish no

I’m not saying don’t act. I’m saying that tying union rights to whether you approve of the job makes every union conditional. Wisconsin already proved this. Walker used the same logic to gut teachers’ bargaining rights. You can push accountability without abandoning that principle.

The strongest case against police unions is that cops enforce state power against other workers. But the moment you accept that a worker’s function disqualifies them from collective bargaining, you’ve handed the right a tool they’ll use against teachers and nurses next.

Calling on DA Vasquez to outline accountability for ICE agents sounds convincing, but Federal agents acting under federal authority are shielded mainly by the supremacy clause. A county DA’s jurisdiction here is minimal. Surely Morillo knows this.

f we want policies that rein in federal overreach, we need a coalition, not ultimatums. The choice Angelita describes isn't really a choice at all — it's a loyalty test dressed up as principle. And loyalty tests have never been a great foundation for democratic governance.

Disagreeing with specific PPA positions on oversight or federal cooperation is fair game. But equating union advocacy with obstruction — or worse, kinship with fascism — poisons the well.

Unions exist to protect workers' rights, including the right to due process and fair working conditions. That's true for teachers, nurses, and construction workers, and it doesn't stop being true because someone wears a badge.

— it alienates the very people you need at the table if you want meaningful reform.

Police officers are Portlanders too. Many of them live here, raise families here, and choose this work because they believe in public service. Characterizing an entire union as sympathetic to corrupt federal overreach doesn't just misrepresent rank-and-file members —

I understand the frustration, but framing this as a binary — stand with Portlanders or stand with fascism — oversimplifies a complicated reality and makes productive dialogue harder.