The Governor of Oregon has signed a bill that ends a short-lived liberal policy that decriminalized the possession of small amounts of certain drugs following a surge in overdose deaths.
I support decriminalization of drugs but this is not how to do it. Oregon failed hard on this topic.
So everyone received training but somehow between you and me we found two sources that say there wasn’t training.
I think you’re just re-defining the word “training” to something other than what an average person would consider “training” to mean, and claiming you’re right. Just like the Reagan administration redefining ketchup as a vegetable in order to cut costs on children’s nutrition funding. Oh sneaky republicans.
Be real: if officers were unclear on how to handle situations- then they clearly didn’t receive as much instruction as they needed. Not receiving enough instruction = untrained. A Q&A pamphlet does not constitute training. It doesn’t matter if that’s what typically happens or if this is officially referred to as training, this is not what is normally meant by the word, or what a reasonable person would expect of “training”- especially when the health and safety of officers and the general public are at stake.
And I don’t think anyone is blaming police. It seems they were as frustrated as anyone with the lack of clarity, resolve and commitment from state and local government to address drug addiction’s terrible burden on communities, families, and individuals. Like they did in Portugal.
Anyway, you can have the last word, I’m done here.
Be real: if officers were unclear on how to handle situations- then they clearly didn’t receive as much instruction as they needed. Not receiving enough instruction = untrained.
We have a biased article saying officers were confused. I haven’t heard that from officers. Officers were clear on the measure 110. Article after article talks about measure 110 with officers stating their opinion of it and none said they were confused.
It seems they were as frustrated as anyone with the lack of clarity, resolve and commitment from state and local government to address drug addiction’s terrible burden on communities, families, and individuals
Can’t find a single article with the police saying they co can find articles where the police were mad they couldn’t arrest.
When you leave off the beginning of the quote it seems misleading:
So everyone received training but somehow between you and me we found two sources that say there wasn’t training.
I think you’re just re-defining the word “training” to something other than what an average person would consider “training” to mean, and claiming you’re right. Just like the Reagan administration redefining ketchup as a vegetable in order to cut costs on children’s nutrition funding. Oh sneaky republicans.
Be real: if officers were unclear on how to handle situations- then they clearly didn’t receive as much instruction as they needed. Not receiving enough instruction = untrained. A Q&A pamphlet does not constitute training. It doesn’t matter if that’s what typically happens or if this is officially referred to as training, this is not what is normally meant by the word, or what a reasonable person would expect of “training”- especially when the health and safety of officers and the general public are at stake.
And I don’t think anyone is blaming police. It seems they were as frustrated as anyone with the lack of clarity, resolve and commitment from state and local government to address drug addiction’s terrible burden on communities, families, and individuals. Like they did in Portugal.
Anyway, you can have the last word, I’m done here.
We have a biased article saying officers were confused. I haven’t heard that from officers. Officers were clear on the measure 110. Article after article talks about measure 110 with officers stating their opinion of it and none said they were confused.
Can’t find a single article with the police saying they co can find articles where the police were mad they couldn’t arrest.
https://www.wweek.com/news/2023/06/23/researchers-release-second-round-on-findings-on-measure-110-police-dont-like-it/
Not some random police were confused. Real quotes with real names attached to it. That’s a cite.