Free Agent Portland Mayor Chooses Oakland Officer as Next Police Chief

I mean Jesus fuck, if there's one thing women are good at it is telling people what to do.

 

You're a much bigger part. If every question gets answered with your feelings taken into account.

The movie Hidden Figures was great because it was about math. She was right, she was better than the men at math. She wins.

That's what is great about my job for example, if you can fix the cars right they don't care if you're 80 or a woman or deaf.

 

You guys should all work for Google, a safe space for all of you against evil cis white racist males.

I don't know why I added racist, I'm sure you all add that word in your heads.

 

You may not, that doesn't mean nobody does.

 

You're not allowed to call a post dumb, when you've made a thread about how fat people should be shamed.

If you don't think it's a thing for you. Then cool.
But there are people who posted in this thread, and the Becky Hammon thread who clearly believe one thing. Women shouldn't have positions of leadership.
If you don't believe me I'm sure a bump of that thread could be made to happen.

Clearly though I struck a nerve.

 

I don't care that she's a woman or black.

I'm a little perplexed on why they need to hire people from outside of Portland though. It seems to me that policing a city is as much about understanding the culture of the city as it is about police training and experience.

Was there no one on the Portland Police Force that was adequately qualified?

Maybe she has a different perspective that will help our cause? Frankly, I have never really cared who they hire. A cop is a cop is a cop. They're not black. They're not white. They're blue, and they care more about the thin blue line than they do about the people they're supposed to be protecting.

 

I'm just sick of people shitting their pants over anybody getting hired with great qualifications.

Obviously she is more than qualified.

If someone is qualified there should be no bitching about ethnicity, gender etc.

Really the only thing i dislike about the hiring is it's another californian moving here.

Portland should be a cakewalk compared to Oakland.

I hope she does an awesome job. They can start by actually giving a shit about the deep eastside.

 

Only to Drumpf voter minds. Besides, why do you care? You're the one bringing it up. You seem kinda upset about it.

For the record:

I'm GLAD they didn't hire another white man.

#yesisaidit.

 

I kinda wish they'd post the interviews of key public positions like police chief, or school superintendent. I'm curious what questions they ask them and what the chosen candidates answered to those questions.

 

I support this selection if only for the reason that an Outlaw now runs the police department.

Other than that - she seems well qualified - hopefully she is a great hire.

 

Sigh.

This is why these conversations are never productive.

I'm not saying you aren't wrong in retaliating against some of the comments in this thread.

The world is just fucked right now.

 

Fuck this bullshit. None of these folk said SHIT when any of the white guys were hired.

 

You forgot one.

 

Old white guys suck too. The Police Chief Charlie Beck of LA fucking blows. Called it at the time, he just seems like a shithead.

 

I agree with dviss on this. Given great qualifications, I'm glad to see a woman of color be given a leadership role. Not because I hate white men, but because minorities and women need to be getting more opportunities like this when they have the qualifications for it.

 

Its more a function of Oakland being an out of control crime ridden shit hole that can't contain their own riots than her being black.

 

Nah, it's because she's extremely qualified. Oakland is also a pretty typical blue collar city--some extremely crime-ridden parts, some nice parts. Property values have been rising with gentrification, though, to the point that it's now only a bit cheaper to live there than in San Francisco's metro area.

 

Honestly, I have never followed the hiring/firing of our police chief. I didn't notice when Moose was the chief during the Katz era either. They seem to come and go without much fanfare. Each Mayor wants to install their own Chief. It seems like kind of a weak position. The Mayor has a lot of power over the police.

 

Well, it's a bit like being Secretary of State or Attorney General or something. Each President installs their own--the position carries a lot of power and influence, but it's ultimately subject to the general direction/vision of the executive (mayor in this case, President in my examples).