Amid calls to ‘defund the police,’ most Portland residents want police presence maintained or increased, poll finds

Now for a balancing bit of good news. Shane Kavanaugh has this article with the above title in the Oregonion.

Nearly a year after “defund the police” became a racial justice rallying cry in Portland and across the U.S., a vast majority of Portlanders and those living in the metro area reject the call to diminish police presence in the city.

Three-fourths of Portland-area residents say they do not want to see policing in the city dip below its current levels, with a plurality supporting an increase in cops, according to a recent poll commissioned by The Oregonian/OregonLive.

Meanwhile, fewer than a quarter of survey participants in Portland — and even less among suburban residents — believe there should be fewer police officers.

If BLM et al. can’t sell their “defund the police”  agenda in Portland, then stick a fork in it, it’s done.