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Comment on San Francisco bill would let people sue grocery stores for closing too quickly

BobaFuttbucker@reddthat.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

If the only grocery store in your area (if they get their way with the kroger merger) is gone, it won’t matter anyway.

Now it’s the police’s fault? I’m pretty sure you’re just constructing this narrative as you go.

I find myself in Portland frequently for work and can tell you firsthand, it’s wayyyyyy better crime-wise than many cities in the US. I get to travel a lot and see more than the news organizations would have you believe. It’s not due to crime, even if that was the reason given.

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wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Now it’s the police’s fault? I’m pretty sure you’re just constructing this narrative as you go. No, it’s not their fault. They are acting under the guidance of the city council. They didn’t ask to be defunded and allow crime to go rampant. Some of my friends are SF officers and they are livid over what has happened to the city.

I find myself in Portland frequently for work and can tell you firsthand, it’s wayyyyyy better crime-wise than many cities in the US.

Look at my name. I am in Portland a couple of times a week to almost daily. The crime us rampant and the homeless population has exploded.

I expect once drugs are criminalized, we will see order restored fairly quickly.

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when the store quietly shuttered its doors due to internal and external theft and safety issues.

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- BobaFuttbucker@reddthat.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I dunno, compared to many other cities in the Midwest, south, and southeast Portland really isn’t that bad. A little dirty and a homelessness problem but that’s literally every city right now.
  
  Ehh, it’s not the drug criminality. It’s a lot of things, including cost of living, Portland police literally refusing to respond to calls and do their job, and lax laws on responding to homelessness. It’s a sad failure of the system, sure. But it’s just not the boogeyman conservative media likes to say it is.
  
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  - wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    It’s actually gotten better since COVID, noticeably.
    
    I think that’s a matter of opinion.
    
    PPb isn’t refusing calls. They are short staffed. They lose a ton of officers over the calls to defund.
    
    I won’t overly defend PPb because I think they needed a reckoning. A family member of a friend was beat to death by PPB for not a good reason.
    
    I would like to think that’s the only time I’ve heard a similar story but it isn’t.
    
    The only reason the officers got into any trouble was several of the family members worked for the governor directly.
    
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    BobaFuttbucker@reddthat.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Nobody’s defunding them. They’ve actually been funded more since that became the hot new word. This alone tells me you’re either being lied to by your media source, or you’re making this up as you go. I don’t want to accuse you of anything but. I’m afraid you may be misinformed.
    
    The PPD have plenty of funding, at this point they’re just refusing to do their jobs.
    
    Yeah unfortunately that part’s not a Portland-specific problem either. Too much favoritism in corporations as well as city government these days.
    
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