I live right next to Woodlawn park. A nice area with some rough outskirt fringe areas. All year long there's no commotion. Then, when the summer months come I hear gunshots almost every night. Tonight I hear a pow pow pow and 5 minutes later the neighborhood is swarming with cops. An ambulance comes to take away who ever was shot. I went online to see what happened and apparently there was a robbery gone wrong. Just a couple nights ago I heard a bus get shot up not too far. Does the heat irritate people more and make them do crazy things? Is it because the kids are out of school? I realize this is gang affiliated stuff. But honestly, at no point do I ever walk around my neighborhood and feel unsafe during the day, or even at night really. Kinda weird the chaos that goes down. I remember when I was a kid Woodlawn neighborhood was where you wanted to avoid. I was talking to this old black lady who's a neighborhood historian at a local watering hole and I guess this neighborhood is one of Portland's oldest and when Vanport flooded it catered to those folks. She said one year in the early 90's Woodlawn Park was crazy with gun violence. She described it as being like little Baghdad.
Not sure but many people on here would tell you there is no issue with the black community and gun violence and maybe you are the racist one, friend. No but really I don't know, probably because school is out and it's nice out which it never is here and people just trying to do hood rat shit with their friends. It's sad really. Young lives lost for the dumbest shit
