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Portland Police Officer Jim Crooker said he was embarrassed after a manager kicked him out of the Red and Black Cafe in Southeast Portland -- just because he was a uniformed officer.

In 2005, leaders in Portland, Oregon voted not to allow city law enforcement officers to participate in a key anti-terror initiative, the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force. On Friday, that task force helped prevent what could have been a horrific terrorist attack in Portland. Now city officials say they might re-think their participation in the task force.

Step 1) The city opted out of the JTTF. Step 2) The JTTF instigated a bomb plot with a useful idiot. Step 3) City thinks about opting into the JTTF.

Nice.

The Rapid City Police Department seized all of the sex toys and related merchandise from the Spencer’s store at Rushmore Mall late Monday night as possible evidence of the national retailer's failure to register as an adult-oriented business.

Portland police want to install cameras on private businesses to monitor drug deals. Police will be able to see footage on smart phones. Are they seriously wanting to do this???

Oakland's police chief is making some dire claims about what his force will and will not respond to if layoffs go as planned.
Chief Anthony Batts listed exactly 44 situations that his officers will no longer respond to and they include grand theft, burglary, car wrecks, identity theft and vandalism. He says if you live and Oakland and one of the above happens to you, you need to let police know on-line

The fun really starts at 3:30 into the video

Sad thing is that if someone decides to do this in your store, there isn't much you can do other than call the police because if you take it into your own hands, you will most likely find your self in a cage

Former police officer who was jailed for 10 years for police brutality, spoke for the first time of her conviction. "I just did what I was trained to do" Female cop describes ordeal, for setting police dog on a man trying to escape. The dog bit the man on the calf, but he never filed a complaint. Prince George County Police Department was being investigated after claims of excessive force had been leveled at the force. Complaints and a string of media reports prompted a federal investigation of excessive force by officers. But the investigation yielded no major convictions.

"If you come home to find your house burglarized and you call, we're not coming," said Oakland Police spokeswoman Holly Joshi. The city laid off 80 officers from its force of 687 last month and the department can't respond to burglary, vandalism, and identity theft. "It's amazing. It's a big change for us." In other words, the monopoly is almost out of business, but no other organization can legally defend people from property crimes.

In April, Portland John Brennan performed the protest that's been seared into our memory: Stripping naked for TSA at the Portland airport.