Comment on Oregon governor signs bill recriminalizing hard drugs, completing liberal experiment's U-turn

• Bongo_Stryker@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well I have been cautioned not to share any personal information on the interwebs including where I live, so I won’t comment on that.

  I will say that there is least one town I have spent time in, near some mountains with trees where the police were informed but didn’t receive any additional training, nor did they seem to take the policy change seriously. Yes the wrote tickets and they also simply found something else to arrest people for. It seems not many people, of those who were in a position to effect real change, took the policy seriously. Unlike in Portugal where a more serious approach appears to have been more successful.

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  • wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The ticket isn’t a get of jail free pass.you can still be arrested for other crimes. The law didn’t change that.

    And I call BS they didn’t receive any additional training. It was in the POST training required for officers. You’re claiming a department ignored the training standard and falsified records? Yeah I’ll need the city name to buy that shit.

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    • Bongo_Stryker@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nope I didn’t make that claim.

      But Oregon’s Department of Public Safety Standards and Training, which trains law enforcement, confirmed in February that it has offered police no instruction on how Measure 110 works other than to update information for new recruits on when drug possession is a violation, misdemeanor or felony. propublica.org/…/oregon-leaders-hampered-drug-dec…

      Published in February 2024

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      • wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Not sure who is making that claim. I sat in on the training and one of my friends produced training for 110. I haven’t met an officer who wasn’t trained on 110.

        I can’t find an official verified statement that no training was provided. It’s seem that’s propaganda against the police police since this article claims there was no training then list the training they were given

        wweek.com/…/researchers-release-second-round-on-f…

        Departments simply received a simple question-and-answer guide from the state and officers were unclear about how best to handle situations involving drug possession and leading to additional frustration

        That is training. When a law changes, that typically what you receive for training and it’s what I saw when I sat in on the training.

        So while people are trying to blame the police, they were trained.

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