Free Agent Portland Mayor Chooses Oakland Officer as Next Police Chief

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    But if I say something like this, I hate white people.... :dry:
     
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    This is an interesting story.
    When the search for Chief began, the salary range cited is $143,312 to $205,379 a year. The out going chief made $173,000 according to another article.

    Then another article says, the lady from Oakland will be paid $210,000 a year. Damn! A pretty good boost from the $129,000 she made in Oakland.

    Portland has well over 1000 police officers. Can it be true that none are qualified to serve as Chief at the starting salary level for Chief?

    This new lady is coming in from the outside, promoted from Lieutenant in Oakland to Chief in Portland at just over salary range for the Job!

    Wow! What a find! She must be better than Batman.

    Wonder why the NYPD doesn't take this route, hire a superstar? They alway promote from within. You guys in Portland must be just blessed to have such clairvoyant and righteous leadership.
     
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    I don't even hate him. I wanted him to succeed in the worst way. Now I'm just done.
     
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    Yeah, I was kidding. Leonard's probably a cool guy.
     
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    Me too.
     
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    Probably parsing words here, but there is a minor difference between "I'm glad to see a woman of color be given a leadership role" or "minorities and women need to be getting more opportunities like this" and "I'm glad they didn't hire another white man."

    It's of course good to be supportive of members of a historically-marginalized group; it's generally considered less so to be in opposition to members of a historically privileged group specifically because of that status.

    Personally, I'm just glad they hired someone qualified, and will assume that they hired the best candidate, and hope she does an exemplary job.
     
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    She needs to recuse herself from the investigation into meetings with the Warriors.
     
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    :dry: not sure why you are including me. I have repeatedly said i felt she was more than qualified for the job and don't know what the fuss is about.
     
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    I was responding to your quote not including you. :)

    *Edited above*
     
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    Hopefully she hires more dogs.

    Just not white ones.
     
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    We could if people weren't making those comments I quoted.
     
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    I knew it!
     
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    I hired a black lady as a development manager once. Didn't have to bring her in from the outside though, she was already in the organization.
     
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    Is this going to be like that Vice Principals show on HBO where a black lady comes in and takes the principal job the two VPs wanted, and probably does a better job than they would have, only with cops?
     
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    :drumroll:
     
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    Man, I'm too busy working on an old ass Mini Cooper to go see all the quotes I got. I'll have to check back later. I'm sure it is all good.
     
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    Nope. That's not human nature. We argue. We fight. We have different opinions. We kill each other.

    Sadly, I don't see that changing anytime soon.... although I don't really want to see us stop disagreeing. I think disagreement is important. If everyone agreed with each other all the time, this would be a boring place.
     
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    I don't disagree with you.

    I like having arguments.

    But when people start arguing with people about stuff they can't change, like the color of one's skin, it really grinds my gears. Who the fuck cares if the most qualified person was a woman, black, muslim, asian, christian, white, latino. If they do a good job, then awesome. It's better for all of us.

    I just hate how anything and everything today turns into a white vs POC, republicans vs. Democrats type argument.
     
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    This shit is everywhere you turn now and it gets really old, why can't we just go back to all being American and on the same side?
     
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