Look at what the left has created..... Good God, what a mess. Inhumane.
https://www.realclearinvestigations...and_city_of_professed_benevolence_984484.html
The question of what constitutes humanity is at the heart of Constantino’s attack and the tensions in Portland, a city buckling under the weight of its ostensible benevolence. Few U.S. cities have offered as fertile an environment for drug addiction and homelessness to take root, via hands-off policies and the idea that a moral society is a tolerant society -- all of which might have stood a fighting chance, had the riots and violence of 2020 not kneecapped a city already struggling under COVID.
With whole blocks boarded up, people exploited Portland's liberal public camping policies and overtook much of downtown, as well as other parts of this city of 635,000. There are 6,297 homeless recorded in surrounding Multnomah County today, compared with 3,120 in 2020. Many, like the man some believe to be Constantino’s assailant, are in the grip of addiction. (The 2020 National Survey on Drug Use and Health ranked Oregon as having the second-highest drug and alcohol addiction in the nation by percentage of population, after Montana, and last in access to drug treatment.) The criminality that often attends addiction has risen accordingly. Robberies were up 50% in 2022 alone, and according to the Portland Police Bureau, there were more than 10,000 assaults between July 2022 and July 2023.
The decline of civic safety was driven by another 2020 event, the passage of Oregon Ballot Measure 110, the Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act. Measure 110's stated aim – that "a health-based approach to addiction and overdose is more effective, humane and cost-effective than criminal punishments" – was in line with Oregon's promotion of harm reduction policies over incarceration, and the measure passed with more than 58% of the vote.
https://www.realclearinvestigations...and_city_of_professed_benevolence_984484.html
The question of what constitutes humanity is at the heart of Constantino’s attack and the tensions in Portland, a city buckling under the weight of its ostensible benevolence. Few U.S. cities have offered as fertile an environment for drug addiction and homelessness to take root, via hands-off policies and the idea that a moral society is a tolerant society -- all of which might have stood a fighting chance, had the riots and violence of 2020 not kneecapped a city already struggling under COVID.
With whole blocks boarded up, people exploited Portland's liberal public camping policies and overtook much of downtown, as well as other parts of this city of 635,000. There are 6,297 homeless recorded in surrounding Multnomah County today, compared with 3,120 in 2020. Many, like the man some believe to be Constantino’s assailant, are in the grip of addiction. (The 2020 National Survey on Drug Use and Health ranked Oregon as having the second-highest drug and alcohol addiction in the nation by percentage of population, after Montana, and last in access to drug treatment.) The criminality that often attends addiction has risen accordingly. Robberies were up 50% in 2022 alone, and according to the Portland Police Bureau, there were more than 10,000 assaults between July 2022 and July 2023.
The decline of civic safety was driven by another 2020 event, the passage of Oregon Ballot Measure 110, the Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act. Measure 110's stated aim – that "a health-based approach to addiction and overdose is more effective, humane and cost-effective than criminal punishments" – was in line with Oregon's promotion of harm reduction policies over incarceration, and the measure passed with more than 58% of the vote.
