Free Agent Portland Mayor Chooses Oakland Officer as Next Police Chief

But if I say something like this, I hate white people....

 

Just Meyers Leonard.

 

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.

 

I don't even hate him. I wanted him to succeed in the worst way. Now I'm just done.

 

Yeah, I was kidding. Leonard's probably a cool guy.

 

Me too.

 

She needs to recuse herself from the investigation into meetings with the Warriors.

 

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.

 

I was responding to your quote not including you.

*Edited above*

 

If i felt someone wasn't qualified i would say so. I don't feel like Kate Brown is qualified. I don't think marshman was doing a great job so i'm happy for the change.

Many people feel trump is doing an awful job, he is a white man.

Who cares? I literally do not care she is a woman or black. Her qualifications were top notch. It's commendable how much she has accomplished at her age. A role model to all.

Just the back and forth complaining about her being black and comments about hating white people are not productive from either side.

Can't we all just get along?

 

We could if people weren't making those comments I quoted.

 

I knew it!

 

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.

 

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?

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.