Portland

285 readers

28 users here now

Welcome to the lemmy.world community for Portland, Oregon!

This community has kind of been empty since it was created, I'm hoping to change that!

Unlike "other" Portland communities you may have seen "elsewhere", I believe in a "warts and all" approach. You are free to take off your Rose tinted glasses and talk about topics that are dragging our city down.

At the same time, sunset pics, snowmageddon, traffic monster, cones, that's all welcome as well. Let's collectively keep Portland weird!

2024 is going to be an interesting year politically with all the changes to city government, I will attempt to tag political threads with a [Politics] tag and encourage users to do so as well.

Other than the lemmy.world restrictions on spam, copyrighted material, and adult material (USE that NSFW tag!), there's only one real way to get in trouble here:

Don't attack other users.

It's OK to go after Teargas Ted, it's OK to say Rene Gonzales is a fascist, ACAB, BLM, whatever floats your boat (WEFYB).

It's NOT OK to attack or diminish another user. Feel free to disagree, you can point out the many ways you think they're wrong, just don't start throwing perjoratives AT OTHER USERS.

Links to know!

Portland Trailblazers Schedule!

https://www.nba.com/blazers/schedule

Portland Winterhawks Home Game Schedule!

https://www.rosequarter.com/events/winterhawks

Portland Timbers Pre-Season Starts in February!

https://www.timbers.com/schedule/matches#competition=all&date=2024-02-10

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

KEZRA

jordanlund

Judge approves appointment of independent monitor to oversee Portland police reforms (www.oregonlive.com)

submitted 5 months ago by TempermentalAnomaly to c/portland_oregon

2 comments fedilink hide all child comments

top 2 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] pdxfed 3 points 5 months ago

They've been sanctioned, monitored, failed, mandated by voters to have an accountability board at the city level that they attempted to revoke last month until it was thrown out...the question isn't who is watching them. The question is, who is going to stop them? They have been murdering people for 15 years after having been censured by FBI and DOJ.

https://www.portlandmercury.com/cops/2011/01/25/3295300/one-year-ago-aaron-campbell-was-shot

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Most of the other members are from outside of Portland, including the police auditor for the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, a retired deputy police chief from New Mexico, the senior adviser to the Los Angeles mayor on homelessness, the UCLA police chief and a forensic data specialist.

I am not sure how I feel about this one. Part of me says it should be locally monitored but then again, sometimes outside people are less biased.

BART is an interesting agency. I worked with them often in the past and they seemed like a professional group.