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‘Overworked, overwhelmed and burned out’: Why Portland cops say they’re leaving in droves Updated Apr 05, 2021; Facebook Share They bemoaned the lack of true community-based policing. And they were all Portland officers and supervisors who chose to leave the state’s largest police force in the last year. In 31 exit interview statements, the employees who turned in their badges or retired were brutally frank about their reasons for getting out. “The community shows zero support. The city council are raging idiots, in addition to being stupid. Additionally, the mayor and council ignore actual facts on crime and policing in favor of radical leftist and anarchists fantasy. What’s worse is ppb command (lt. and above) is arrogantly incompetent and cowardly,” one retiring detective wrote.

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