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“Wilson also recently announced plans to begin moving campers off the street Nov. 1,…. first with citations targeting people having outstanding warrants or those involved with current crime, such as drugs or weapons.”

I don’t understand this ..the police give a citation ( a ticket) to someone that has an active warrant or is committing drug and weapons crimes…. Shouldn’t those people be arrested? If someone has an active warrant, that means that they already didn’t show up to a court date, sometimes several court dates, doesn’t it? When will we have a Mayor that says, “If there is a warrant for your arrest, you are going to jail” or “If you commit drug or weapons crimes on the streets of Portland, we will arrest you and you will go to jail”. Citations will be ignored, when do we learn that lesson

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Sep 30Edited

The “aha” moment was when they ran out of money to haphazardly produce more beds and he rightfully started to feel the wrath of residents fed up with his nonsensical refusal to enforce even the camping ordinances that were in effect prior to him taking office. This is easier than just admitting they don’t know what they’re doing.

One wonders why it isn’t an ongoing practice to get people with arrest warrants and guns/weapons off our streets or why they need to wait another month to start doing this.

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