“The Portland Clinic has had a location downtown for 104 years, but the block outside its doors has become the city’s latest open-air fentanyl market.”
Understandable. Staff is overworked and not supported, and the “clients” aren’t exactly receptive to help.
Police won’t have jobs if there are no businesses to protect.
Police can’t solve this problem, because these people are addicted.
You must have services to get them clean and off the streets. It’s the only option. Why are we still talking about this?
Police won’t solve the problem because a few years ago, they chose a stance of abandoning downtown. Then again, all they did was arrest the addict and let them go later, sometimes even roughing them up.
In the past month, I’ve seen a significant uptick on plainclothes workers helping addicts clean up.
