[ED: After George Floyd, the city of Portland cut its police budget while daily Antifa and Black Lives Matter protests racked the city. Crime soared. Portland racked up more murders last year than larger cities like Seattle, Boston or San Francisco. The city was forced to replace part of the police funding cuts last year, but the department is now drastically understaffed. Yesterday Wheeler has declared a state of emergency over the “gun violence” and will use taxpayer dollars to fund “community-based messengers” to try to convince violent recidivist criminals not to shoot each other quite so often.]
By Claire Rush, AP
Gripped by gun violence that’s affecting cities across the nation, the mayor of Portland, Oregon, on Thursday issued a new emergency declaration with the goal of reducing gun killings by at least 10% over the next two years.
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