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Comments (23)
Couldn't find the article you mention about King, but I did find one about Potter wanting to change Portland's charter to a "strong mayor" form of government.
Have you given any thought to this? Is there really any evidence that one form of government works better than any other? We have hundreds of cities in the U.S. with several different forms (city manager, volunteer council, paid council, wards, etc.). Someone must know what works best. Or are we just going to do what the mayor wants?
Posted by Randal O'Toole | January 30, 2007 7:38 PM
I'm not sure I want to change this comment space into a discussion of charter change. But Portland's the only large city left in the country with the commission form of government.
Unless the charter change includes electing council members by district, I couldn't care less about it.
Posted by Jack Bog | January 30, 2007 7:46 PM
No districts in this proposal, no.
But back on point: Yeah, big surprise that King isn't "coming to the table" on racial profiling to do anything other than obstruct the discussion.
Posted by b!X | January 30, 2007 7:50 PM
I question the part about the "single incident," too. I can count at least two very questionable police killings since Potter took over: Chasse and Young. Not to mention the guy they took out on Sandy.
Posted by Jack Bog | January 30, 2007 8:07 PM
I'm not sure I understand the sentiment in this post. Jack, do you feel racial profiling is a problem or not?
King clearly doesn't care as much about it as he does about the overall performance of his force. His letter speaks to overall crime levels - this is the metric he is most concerned with, over and above racial profiling. If a few minorities get their feelings hurt in the pursuit of overall crime dropping, too bad (in King's mind).
Potter may care overall crime levels, but his constituency also cares about racial profiling and its effects. Thus, his efforts on the matter.
I'm white, so I can't speak to racial profiling's true effects. But I know people who feel it is a problem. I'm glad that crime is falling, but is it at the cost of making people feel like criminals just for being members of a minority? And if so, is that a cost worth paying?
That's a discussion worth having.
Posted by Morgan | January 30, 2007 8:09 PM
Don't fret, Mr. King. I'm sure the Mayor - like all of us - is very proud of about 940 of your 950 police officers, detectives, sergeants, and criminalists.
Posted by Alan DeWitt | January 30, 2007 8:10 PM
What a crock of ****. Instead of just bitching about the mayor, bitching about the media, and bitching about others in general, it sure would be neat for the police union to offer up something positive from their side of the table.
Posted by Aaron B. Hockley | January 30, 2007 8:36 PM
...it sure would be neat for the police union to offer up something positive from their side of the table.
I think in King's warped little perspective, "the cops are alright" is the positive something he's offering up.
Posted by b!X | January 30, 2007 8:41 PM
it sure would be neat for the police union to offer up something positive from their side of the table.
"We can do no wrong, and anyone who says otherwise is out to get us." Any lack of trust on the part of the public likely starts with that attitude.
Posted by Jack Bog | January 30, 2007 8:49 PM
As for racial profiling, to my knowledge Potter has never accused anybody of that. But his failure to assert that there is no racial profiling is now grounds for criticism.
Is there any room for listening or an open mind behind the thin blue line? Or just itchy trigger fingers, steroids, and coverup?
Posted by Jack Bog | January 30, 2007 8:51 PM
A note on OregonLive URLs: it boggles my mind how terrible that site is, including the fact that they get their own URLs wrong (in Firefox and possibly other browsers, this means the browser doesn't "scroll" to the correct story when you follow a link). In order to make the page scroll to the right story, edit the URL like this:
Original link (as found on Web site or RSS feed):
http://www.oregonlive.com/.../2007_01.html#231460
Correct link:
http://www.oregonlive.com/.../2007_01.html##231460
Posted by tODD | January 30, 2007 10:03 PM
Thank you. How did you ever figure that one out?
Posted by Jack Bog | January 30, 2007 11:32 PM
The actual story from the paper is posted now.
Posted by b!X | January 31, 2007 12:58 AM
*As for racial profiling, to my knowledge Potter has never accused anybody of that. *
Remember a couple of months ago there was the case of an excellent community activist who is an African immigrant who spoke to the city council about all the times he had been pulled over on pretext stops and then let go...finally he actually got some sort of ticket.
Potter, if memory serves, spoke out during a council session and --I'm trying to remember--actually apologized to the activist. Or was the activist a member of city staff? I can't remember. Then Potter turned around a few days later, met with the police union, and then took back the apology and apologized instead to the police.
But there was definitely a sense that Potter was zeroing in on some specific officer/s in that case before he completely backed off.
Posted by lisaloving | January 31, 2007 3:56 AM
I'm guessing Grampy's E-mails won't be nearly as steamy as Chief Foxworth's...But if we he was actually juggling multiple relationships at one time I would have new found respect for him.
His appearance and demeanor suggest Eagle Scout/Career Cop, not amorous raconteur.
Given how quickly AFSCME flipped his opinion on Foxworth's suspension, they must have a big bucket of dirt on him.
I hope there are photos this time!
Posted by Mister Tee | January 31, 2007 5:24 AM
Reading between the lines, I take this report as a signal that Mayor King will indeed run for re-election and Chief Potter will take retirement.
Posted by Silence Dogood | January 31, 2007 6:53 AM
There are photos... and won't Potter (and his wife) be shocked to see them.
Posted by Shadow | January 31, 2007 10:34 AM
Jerry Springer would be so proud.
Of course, with Clinton it was "only sex" and a "personal thing" - no possible effect on how he governed...
...oh, no, no, no.
I'm just sayin'.
Posted by rr | January 31, 2007 11:16 AM
Of course, with Clinton it was "only sex" and a "personal thing" - no possible effect on how he governed...
Governed his way to highest economic growth since WWII and a huge budget surplus, I'm sure you meant to say.
Posted by Dave J. | January 31, 2007 1:11 PM
But how has Potter governed so far?
Let see: $85 per survey for only 12,000 opinions for his boondoggle visioning scam; a "yes-man" charter review committee that can't identify one city were their recommendation works better than the current form of government; police attacks on the mentally ill and homeless prompted by his safe downtown initiative; curfews in the Park Blocks; a ban on sitting on the sidewalk; growing numbers of vacant downtown business locations; a PDC Board that provides million dollar give-aways to Potter's few developer friends, commissioners who check e-mail while Potter is issuing platitudes.
The list goes on and on, but not a single tangible result of his own (that's not from a committee's ideas) like Commissioners Leonard (biodiesel), Sten (housing developments) and Adams (reduce business taxes).
In his state of the city speech, all Potter could say is that everying could be worse. He'll no doubt prove it can be if he gets a second term.
Posted by Shadow | January 31, 2007 1:43 PM
"In his state of the city speech, all Potter could say is that everying could be worse. He'll no doubt prove it can be if he gets a second term"
Screw the second term... I want a second tram!
Posted by Aaron B. Hockley | January 31, 2007 4:14 PM
Amen Shadow. Amen. We need a leader with vision, not a leader who visions.
Posted by Dave Lister | January 31, 2007 4:33 PM
You know, I understand the idea of a union president sticking up for the membership, but King is just a bully. I don't believe there's anything that a cop could do wrong, except for something like robbing a bank, that he wouldn't try to spin as a good thing.
Posted by lin qiao | January 31, 2007 7:27 PM