Voices Behind the Badge

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Thank you for teaching them who to run to. I bet this meant more to this Officer than they’ll ever know! Posted @withregram • @projecthumanize_official

America, what will you do when the voices behind the badge have had enough?
Posted • Giving some insight to a police wife’s brain.

We woke up this morning to some scary news. I texted a leow and we talked about death before 8am. We push our feelings and thoughts aside and go to work. We are now going to bed with heavy hearts. Two deputies were killed in the line of duty tonight.

They will never go home. They will never work another shift, put on a vest, or lace up their boots. People will raise money and plan a funeral. Friends and family will be broken to their core. Their department will be numb for weeks and months. Law enforcement families will once again rethink and question everything. Some will relive their own trauma.

Unfortunately many of us know the feeling.

We wake up to evil and we go to sleep with evil. We see and hear about it every single day. It’s easy to get distracted. It’s okay to be angry and sad. It’s okay to go to therapy and take medicine. It’s okay to be confused.

Just remember, it is so important to be in God’s word everyday— a reminder to you and myself. We do not live in fear because we know our future. We keep doing our best, living in the moment, being the light, and leading others to Him. Stay focused.

But please, make it stop.

We talked a lot about reimagining policing in 2020. Is what you have now everything you’d imagined?

In 2020, when the Portland City Council supported criminal violence against their own police force, normal Portland citizens were largely silent. Extremists waged war against the police, and police were explicitly restrained from enforcing most laws broken during the riots.

Now violence has turned toward the citizens, and Portlanders wonder where their police protection is.

It’s simple. Many officers left. They’re human beings, and this was a job. One that no longer seemed worth the cost to them and their families.

Crime has skyrocketed, so the diminished police force you still have is facing a job exponentially larger than it was prior to the riots. (36 total homicides in 2019 and 3 homicides in the first half of 2020 vs 90 in 2021 and 62 homicides so far this year, for example).

Every kind of crime is up, the number of police officers is down, and you’re surprised when an officer doesn’t respond to your 911 call. I’m sorry, Portland, but you’re reaping the results of your wokeness. Officers are working nonstop trying to get to you, but a homicide call trumps your non-fatal shooting trumps your robbery trumps your stolen car trumps your yard inhabited by transients… I hate it too, but it doesn’t change reality.

Imagine how it could have been if you’d stood up for your officers in 2020 and told your politicians to allow police to hold rioters accountable. Imagine if you hadn’t elected an anti-police activist Jo Ann Hardesty to the city council. Imagine if you hadn’t elected Antifa friend Mike Schmidt to be District Attorney. Imagine if Ted Wheeler hadn’t been the most reasonable candidate on the ballot for mayor.

Now that we’ve reimagined policing, is this what you’d imagined?

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Posted • IT’S ABOUT TIME.

Posted • The "activists" (read: soy-latte drinking, man-bun rocking, unemployed Antifa punks who live in mommy's basement) are pretty pi**ed they can't dox the officers who were doing their jobs.⁠
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Posted • Never forget: Hardesty and Wheeler accused the Portland Police of racism when they disbanded specialty units like the Gun Violence Reduction Team, School Resource Officers, Transit and Traffic Divisions…

Turns out real racism is removing police protection from the group of people who will become victims— the people the Portland Police were protecting when their staffing was intact.

It will take time, money and a complete reversal of mindset to reverse a reckless decision like defunding the police. Portland hasn’t even begun to climb out of the hole it dug for itself.

Posted • While domestic violence and random shootings by people with easy access to guns have contributed to the toll, gang-related rivalries and fights among armed people living on the street have driven this year’s killings, said Sgt. Joe Santos, a Portland homicide division supervisor before he retired recently.

Fifty-five people died through July, most of them in shootings. Almost half of the victims were Black people, mostly men -- far disproportionate to the 6% of Multnomah County’s population that identifies as Black and 3% that identifies as Black men.

August has so far brought four more killings.

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Posted • What did they think was going to happen when you support criminals and activists who want to defund the police?! They created a safe space for criminals and put a target on the backs of law enforcement.

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Posted • As most of you know, we’ve made a couple visits down to Portland Police Bureau to show their officers our support and appreciation for all they do — They recently had a rough 12 hours filled with three separate incidents as shared by the Portland Police Association President, Sgt. Schmautz:

“The contagion of domestic violence produces a call for service. Officers respond to these “routine” calls every day. Upon arrival, a suspect tries to murder the officers, narrowly missing one with a gunshot. Only through breathless courage and guile are the officers able to restore peace to our community and save both their lives and the lives of our citizens … PS3s, a vital cog in our public safety infrastructure, respond to recover a stolen car. Portland leads the country in stolen car investigations. A suspect is on scene, and he runs over a responding police officer with his car, causing significant injury … Officers respond to a subject who is not responsive and unchecked. Again, “routine.” The subject has a warrant and violently attacks two police officers. For 6 minutes, officers fight with the subject who is focused and motivated to escape. Cover takes significantly longer than normal to respond due to the previous two incidents and our overall lack of resources, and only when further help arrives are they able to take the subject into custody. Once again, two officers are injured in the struggle.

12 hours. Multiple officers nearly murdered, three hospitalized, and a vital city resource—the entirety of the public safety infrastructure—ground to a halt. These expounding problems begin with culture and the only remedy is courage.”

We’d love to rally together to provide meals for these officers and their families to show our love and support. We’ve already coordinated with their chaplain who will help us get meals to the officers and their families.

If you’d like to contribute, you can Venmo or PayPal us, including PPB Officers/Families in the memo 🙏🏻💙🚔