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One example: Clean & Safe ESD, run by @PDX_BizAlliance, is largely responsible for trash removal and discouraging houseless Portlanders from residing in front of downtown businesses.
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Portland officials have spent the past few months reexamining the city’s police oversight system. Yet there's been no mention of a certain city program that’s long allowed law enforcement to operate with relative impunity: Enhanced Service Districts.https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2020/08/13/28731801/audit-finds-city-approved-business-districts-rely-on-unregulated-policing …
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Clean & Safe's $5 million budget covers: - 4 Portland police officers - an unknown number of “armed and unarmed” private security officers - 1 staffer in the district attorney's office. These public employees operate at the behest of private property owners.
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Another example: The Lloyd ESD uses its $500,000 budget to buy its own assistant district attorney—a county prosecutor whose sole responsibility is investigating and convicting people for crimes reported by property owners in the Lloyd District.
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Finally something starting where it should start. Audit expenditures and issues. You cannot fix a problem if you first dont identify the cause of a problem and discuss it.
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And Biden won’t do anything about this at all. I am voting for Bernie Sanders
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Don't forget the UASI grants that help fund all of this.
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If not mistaken, they’re rehashing audit info that
@Teressa_Raiford already strove to get the attention it deserved Along w misuse of cannibis tax. She’s saw how audits show how unaccountable City Hall remains!#ElectHer#WriteInTeressaRaifordThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Great reporting per usual!
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