Checking in this morning on the collective nervous breakdown that is the Adams administration in Portland, we find that alas, the patient is still quite ill. Now it turns out that saving all those uniformed police officers' jobs won't mean actually keeping them on the streets. They've laid off a bunch of civilian workers and are putting the arm on the sworn officers to take over the desk jobs that the civilians used to do. Another great moment from the Maestro of Mindscrew.
The tangled web of lies and misleading statements coming out of the mayor's office over his police bureau coup has become far too complex to follow any more. I guess if the falsehoods showed us anything new about this patient, it might be worth trying to sort through them all. But we've known for a long time what the problem is here, and for now it suffices to note that no progress is being made. Recovery will take another 2½ years -- maybe longer.
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Master of mind screw, Master of reckless borrowing. Some pro-Adams people are apt to accuse you of master baiting.
We need to figure out how much more we'll be paying officers to do this deskwork than the civies they replaced. I'm guessing that pay and benefits for a clerk were significantly less than those of a trained and experienced police officer.
Meanwhile, there's derangement up north too -- Gregoire says "There's no reason to expect overruns" on a $1.1 billion viaduct tunnel. Whoa, I want what she's smoking.
The Mayor wants to bring more minorities and women into city government. The new city budget will bankroll an internship program to do just that. Meanwhile, the police bureau desk workers who were just let go? Mostly minorities and women. Brilliant.
If it is light or limited duty police officers I don't have a problem. The question is do we have enough of these permanently fill desk jobs without taking officers off the street?
I don't still believe the police are the root of the problem, but instead the unsound fiscal priorities of at least the past 15 years of city government. The PPB hiring standards have been ratcheted down twice in that period alone, and I'm told PPB has lower officer salaries than many of the city's surrounding suburbs. And why? So the city could finance trams, picturesque street trolleys, convention centers, upscale condo developments, giant accupuncture needles, etc, etc, ad nauseum. I can't even think of them all. I wish WW would compile a list of wasteful projects and publish it alongside a list of degrading or disappearing services, some of which might've prevented these shootings in the first place.
One point... if there are lower standards to be a cop within a jurisdiction, there should be lower pay for those who meet that minimum standard. It should be apples to apples. The county used to pay deputies with advanced degrees more than those with a plain bachelors. I don't know if that's true now.
Case in point for pay by qualifications... Nurses with Masters degrees out earn those with bachelors who out earn LPNs.
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Comments (14)
Master of mind screw, Master of reckless borrowing. Some pro-Adams people are apt to accuse you of master baiting.
Posted by Allan L. | June 4, 2010 9:16 AM
One does have to wonder how much further the bread-and-circuses emperor thinks he can push the prætorians and the plebs.
Posted by AmazedObserver | June 4, 2010 9:16 AM
Adams is deranged. So are his supporters. So rare to see rats go down with a ship, too. Pass the popcorn.
Posted by Mojo | June 4, 2010 9:50 AM
We need to figure out how much more we'll be paying officers to do this deskwork than the civies they replaced. I'm guessing that pay and benefits for a clerk were significantly less than those of a trained and experienced police officer.
Posted by Snards | June 4, 2010 10:17 AM
Meanwhile, there's derangement up north too -- Gregoire says "There's no reason to expect overruns" on a $1.1 billion viaduct tunnel. Whoa, I want what she's smoking.
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/421117_viaductmginngregoire03.html
Posted by George Anonymuncule Seldes | June 4, 2010 10:21 AM
The Mayor wants to bring more minorities and women into city government. The new city budget will bankroll an internship program to do just that. Meanwhile, the police bureau desk workers who were just let go? Mostly minorities and women. Brilliant.
Posted by RJBob | June 4, 2010 10:27 AM
If it is light or limited duty police officers I don't have a problem. The question is do we have enough of these permanently fill desk jobs without taking officers off the street?
Posted by Darrin | June 4, 2010 10:44 AM
Mojo, "Adams is deranged. So are his supporters."
You're talking about BlueOregon?
Posted by Ben | June 4, 2010 10:56 AM
Q: When can you tell a politician is lying.
A: When his lips are moving.
Sam Adams has taken this quip to Olympian levels.
Posted by Garage Wine | June 4, 2010 11:22 AM
I mean all of them. All. Of. Them.
Posted by Mojo | June 4, 2010 12:34 PM
Jack what you are missing is that every time a cop shoots someone they have to go on desk duty , soooo , we have lots of cops ready for desk duty....
Posted by billb | June 4, 2010 3:09 PM
I don't still believe the police are the root of the problem, but instead the unsound fiscal priorities of at least the past 15 years of city government. The PPB hiring standards have been ratcheted down twice in that period alone, and I'm told PPB has lower officer salaries than many of the city's surrounding suburbs. And why? So the city could finance trams, picturesque street trolleys, convention centers, upscale condo developments, giant accupuncture needles, etc, etc, ad nauseum. I can't even think of them all. I wish WW would compile a list of wasteful projects and publish it alongside a list of degrading or disappearing services, some of which might've prevented these shootings in the first place.
Posted by JC | June 4, 2010 3:54 PM
One point... if there are lower standards to be a cop within a jurisdiction, there should be lower pay for those who meet that minimum standard. It should be apples to apples. The county used to pay deputies with advanced degrees more than those with a plain bachelors. I don't know if that's true now.
Case in point for pay by qualifications... Nurses with Masters degrees out earn those with bachelors who out earn LPNs.
Posted by LucsAdvo | June 4, 2010 5:01 PM
Um, yeah hello? I brought up this point in several posts two weeks ago.
You just now realized that someone still has to do the clerical jobs?
Posted by lie2me | June 4, 2010 5:29 PM