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On 10 Jan 2022, hEIL tRUMP <jthomq@gmail.com> posted some news:sridm1$5u5o$10@news.freedyn.de:

Loose Cannon wrote

Portland, what happens when dumbassed Democrats sympathy vote
faggots to ruin their lives.

Business owners are fleeing Portland in droves amid a pronounced rise in
crime and homelessness, officials in the Democratic stronghold have
revealed.

Public data shows that since the pandemic, more than 2,600 downtown
businesses have filed changes of address with the U.S. Postal Service to
leave their downtown ZIP codes.

Several big-name employers, such Umpqua Bank, have been among the mass
exodus, carried out by owners who have taken issue with the rising crime
levels and homelessness - and the city's failure to address it.

Once hailed as the 'crown jewel of the West Coast' for its trendy art and
food scenes, The City of Roses has been in peril since 2020, largely due
to efforts to defund police and lax bail reform laws that leave little to
no deterrent for increasingly brazen criminals.

Local leaders are now sharing their strategies for solving the crime and livability issues, as they threaten to spill over into bordering counties, where the court of public opinion is generally more conservative.

'Each area has different challenges, but what we're seeing in the metro
area is absolutely rising crime,' Washington County District Attorney
Kevin Barton told Fox News of Portland's crime wave, which, similar to
other Dem-led cities such as San Francisco and Chicago, began during the pandemic.

But while crime in the smaller, more suburban Washington and Clackamas
counties has started to level off - due to officials like Barton filing
charges and making arrests - crime in Portland has persisted, a crucial difference that Barton says is illustrated by Portland's still-worsening
crime rate.

The city is also in the midst of a homeless crisis that has confounded
local officials, with several stores forced to permanently shutter due to break-ins now common due to rampant crime, making the businesses no longer financially viable.

This past December, a Portland retail store for the popular clothing brand Rains was forced to shut after being broken into 15 times over the course
of just two months.

To residents wondering why the Rains store is no more, a searing note on
the front door reveals all with 'unrelenting criminal behavior' and
'escalating safety issues for our employees' to blame.

Nike, whose HQ is in nearby Beaverton, also had to close a long-standing community store for weeks because shoplifting was so out of control, and
iconic ice cream shop Salt & Straw last week threatened to move its headquarters out of Oregon.

The store's owner Marcy Landolfo put up a notice on its window explaining
her decision to close.

'Our city is in peril. Small businesses (and large) cannot sustain doing business in our city's current state. We have no protection, or recourse, against the criminal behavior that goes unpunished.

'Do not be fooled into thinking that insurance companies cover losses. We
have sustained 15 break-ins … we have not received any financial
reimbursement since the 3rd,' Landolfo wrote.

<https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11807717/Portland-business- owners-say-theyre-fleeing-city-en-masse-crime.html>

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