Portland Neighbors Frustrated After Police Take 90 Minutes Responding To Hostage Situation Involving 12-Year-Old

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Residents of a Southeast Portland neighborhood are furious after police took 90 minutes to respond to a bizarre hostage situation last week, when a man ran into an apartment with a 12-year-old boy inside, grabbed a knife, and eventually fled after a standoff with the boy's father. Neighbors chased the man down and cornered him, but he ran off again before police arrived.

The police have acknowledged that the delay was unacceptable - however they cited a record number of retirements and fatigued officers who have been covering months of BLM protests.

"This is not the service our community expects, nor is it what we want to provide," said Deputy Police Chief Cris Davis.

That said, 49 officers have retired and nine have resigned since July. According to Davis, other officers are injured or on vacation - leaving the bureau with around 310 officers on patrol divided between three precincts. 102 of those officers don't have full training, Davis added.

In this case, officers were simultaneously responding to a tactical call in East Precinct which required a special team, as well as monitoring a violent clash between protesters downtown and preparing for chaos that evening

I thought Portland didn't want the Police to respond to calls anymore ... just Social Workers.

What was the problem? Were the Social Workers tied up with drinking their Latte's at Starbucks?

Aren’t there pudgy 17 year olds with automatic rifles running around ?

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Residents of a Southeast Portland neighborhood are furious after police took 90 minutes to respond to a bizarre hostage situation last week, when a man ran into an apartment with a 12-year-old boy inside, grabbed a knife, and eventually fled after a standoff with the boy's father. Neighbors chased the man down and cornered him, but he ran off again before police arrived.

The police have acknowledged that the delay was unacceptable - however they cited a record number of retirements and fatigued officers who have been covering months of BLM protests.

"This is not the service our community expects, nor is it what we want to provide," said Deputy Police Chief Cris Davis.

That said, 49 officers have retired and nine have resigned since July. According to Davis, other officers are injured or on vacation - leaving the bureau with around 310 officers on patrol divided between three precincts. 102 of those officers don't have full training, Davis added.

In this case, officers were simultaneously responding to a tactical call in East Precinct which required a special team, as well as monitoring a violent clash between protesters downtown and preparing for chaos that evening

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Residents of a Southeast Portland neighborhood are furious after police took 90 minutes to respond to a bizarre hostage situation last week, when a man ran into an apartment with a 12-year-old boy inside, grabbed a knife, and eventually fled after a standoff with the boy's father. Neighbors chased the man down and cornered him, but he ran off again before police arrived.

The police have acknowledged that the delay was unacceptable - however they cited a record number of retirements and fatigued officers who have been covering months of BLM protests.

"This is not the service our community expects, nor is it what we want to provide," said Deputy Police Chief Cris Davis.

That said, 49 officers have retired and nine have resigned since July. According to Davis, other officers are injured or on vacation - leaving the bureau with around 310 officers on patrol divided between three precincts. 102 of those officers don't have full training, Davis added.

In this case, officers were simultaneously responding to a tactical call in East Precinct which required a special team, as well as monitoring a violent clash between protesters downtown and preparing for chaos that evening

This seems to be rather common on the west coast... in my city it can be 3 hours before they show up, if they show at all.

In fact, just this past weekend there was a double shooting that started off as a street fight that apparently escalated for quite some time. The police are now under scrutiny because it took them an hour and a half to show up after someone had been shot, although the altercation was called in to them well over an hour earlier.

Its not just the BLM crap and layoff/retirements whatever because this crap has been going on here for years.