Portland Oregon has been pretty much ground zero for much of the left’s culture wars. They test their tactics there and transport them around the country to other leftist run cities.  It is one of the first cites in the nation to be dumb enough to take a boatload of money away from their Police Department, with no real idea of the “and then” part of the equation. They even got rid of their gun violence reduction team. Imagine their surprise when gun violence went up.

So now that they have realized that some of what they have done was a mistake, they have come up with another great idea. From Breitbart:

Portland, Oregon’s City Council approved $1.4 million for “unarmed” patrols to be stationed in parks to fight gun crime.

KGW reports there will be “two dozen” such patrols, working a schedule that ensures someone is working “around-the-clock.”

The money for the “unarmed” patrols is part of a larger $6 million plan intended to fight gun violence in the city. The largest portion of the money–$4.1 million–“will be earmarked for community groups that work in the neighborhoods hardest-hit by gunfire.”

What do you call a bunch of unarmed people sent in to combat gun violence? Targets. How does this make sense to these people? Imagine that you were a hard core criminal willing to tote a gun around with the purpose of causing crime with it. Would a bunch of unarmed people hanging around the park at night cause you to rethink your actions? Probably not so much.

This is why there is a mass exodus from Portland of not only the police, but businesses as well. If the police and jobs leave, who is gong to pay to field the human shaped soft targets? I’m sure they will be asking Uncle Sam to dig them out of the hole of their own creation.