Kroeker resigns
Portland's police chief has resigned. Asked by the Mayor to leave.
UPDATE, 8/30, 1:40 am: Well, this is hardly the news that it was on Friday afternoon, but now that someone's left a thoughtful comment, it will stay up. I don't have strong feelings either way about the outgoing chief, but I do have some thoughts on the position he's leaving, which I hope to post about over the weekend.
Comments (1)
Well, no surprise there.
There are plenty in our anarchist loving "Little Beirut" that will never be happy with anything the police do (or don�t do, feel free to damn them both ways).
I really don't understand why anyone would be a cop (or a public school teacher) now-a-days. It is a low paying, high stress job; where you constantly get yelled at and told you suck. Have you ever heard a news story where the police used EXACTLY the right amount of force to subdue a hopped up heroin/meth addict? Do police ever do anything right? In Portland, they even threw in the anti-black rants. And, there aren't any black people in Oregon (seriously, Oregon is as lily white as a wedding dress).
I know the police were popular in that 2 week period after 9/11. I mean Marisa Tomei was on Dave Letterman to brag about having a party in her NYC apartment just so she could show her appreciation by banging as many police and firefighters as she could (I never wanted to be a firefighter more). But, 9/11 was a long time ago and we can get back to the comfortable state of hating the police and military. I mean, what self respecting liberal doesn't hate the "pigs" and those "fascist, homophobic" solders? I know that matters to the under-30 crowd. How else are they going to be cool, just like their Baby Boomer parents?
What was so wrong this time, that he had to leave? I stopped listening years ago. How many times are they going to cry wolf and I am expected to care?
Posted by Hercules | August 29, 2003 7:06 PM