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Portland Stops Cleaning Up Homeless Camps

Wednesday, 8 January 2020, 9:00 MJA Uncategorized 25

Pluralist: The City of Portland has reportedly stopped cleaning up homeless encampments because of concerns that the process could traumatize the residents. 

City Council members were supposed to vote last month on a new contract with a biowaste company that does the cleanups, according to The Oregonian. The agreement was updated to require workers to be “more compassionate and effective” when they go into camps deemed overrun with drugs, trash and crime, the newspaper reported Tuesday.

Clean-up workers “must be polite, diplomatic and professional at all times, and treat all persons with dignity and respect. Discrimination and harassment shall not be tolerated in any form,” says the new language, pushed by the mayor’s office. The workers, who are equipped with biohazard gear, must also be trained to administer an opioid overdose drug and CPR. read more

25 Comments on Portland Stops Cleaning Up Homeless Camps

  12. Bring in the scoops.
    If they want to be respected, they need to be respectable just like anybody else. Sorry, when they don’t care about anybody including themselves no law is going to change it. Welcome to Detroit 2.0.
    Feelings are overrated.

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  15. “The workers, who are equipped with biohazard gear, must also be trained to administer an opioid overdose drug and CPR.”

    ..not sure what they mean by “Biohazard Gear”, because there’s different levels of this, but if they DON’T have SOME respiratory protection component, they are useless because the foetor in such places is because the garbage and human waste, INCLUDING feces, has become aerosolized, and is a VERY real threat of VERY nasty lung infections that you can share with your WHOLE FAMILY.

    …but respiration protection would be at odds with being able to administer effective CPR. Sure, you can do compression only, but that’s not as beneficial so you’d probably get sued, and are you REALLY going to take your filter (or SCBA, again depending on the level) off to lip-lock someone’s cold-sore collection? Or did they give them bag valve masks or other barriers? This gets into a WHOLE different level of training from what a garbage man USUALLY gets, much of which is for hos OWN safety, but Democrats are generally NOT concerned with the safety of WORKING people, so maybe they just don’t care.

    …also, if you have the hood up (as you probably SHOULD unless you want the garbage, feces, and bugs in your hair), it WILL reduce your peripheral vision and your hearing, making it harder to detect when the insane homeless man’s demons tell him you’re a threat, so you might be late responding to the irrational attack unless someone’s warching your back.

    Also, these things on hot weather will quickly make your chest smell like your feet from the perspiration, ESPECIALLY if you’re working (like cleaning up someone else’s garbage), and it’s even WORSE if you’re ALREADY having to breathe hard to draw air through a filter. It’s a little better on the breathing if you’re in SCBA, but you get an hour tank at best (hope your Air Officer drained the condensation or THAT will give you an infection from the positive pressure forcing water into your lungs), and the even WORSE peripheral vision will ensure you won’t see the crazy person messing with your air supply until its too late.

    And the cheaper suits tear kind of easy.

    And NONE of this type of equipment was developed for use in close proximity with insane, drunk, high, violent people. I’d say you’d need a LEO watching you, but it’s Portland and that might offend someone.

    …also, if you didn’t tape into your suit (again, different levels) and you don’t decontaminate BEFORE you take it off, you’re going to get an infection when you’re DONE, because you WILL get some from the OUTSIDE of your suit ON you if you don’t.

    …so, garbage guys, be GLAD that PC Portland thinks you’re too hurtful of crazy people’s feewings by cleaning up after them.

    It probably saved your LIFE…

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  16. …also, anyone who’s ever had to ACTUALLY do something USEFUL for a crazy person can tell you what they are capable of.

    They are capable of ANYTHING.

    Literally ANYTHING.

    And without warning, too.

    …irrational people, more or less by definition, don’t do rational things. You are a (hopefully) rational person yourself, so you can’t fathom diseased thought processes made even WORSE by fever, hallucinogens, alcohol, mental illness, or some combination of all of the above. They may ignore you one minute, and decide you’re the devil incarnate the next. You can’t really have conversations with them even if they speak a language you can access, because you can’t be sure which personality you are talking to (ONE of their personalites may SOUND quite reasonable, look up “psychopath”) or whether or not the ‘shrooms have kicked in yet. You might THINK you’re cleaning garbage,but THEY consider it their STUFF and react accordingly; or they may see you as a nine-assed peyote demon from the planet Yurrir and consider it their duty to save the world by strangling you.

    It’s exciting and new every tine, because you
    JUST.
    DON’T.
    KNOW.

    …and they may not feel pain like you do, so you can break both their arms and they’ll come right back at you with their teeth. They do NOT hesitate or hold back AT ALL.

    …and YOU’RE gonna deal with it for a GARBAGE MAN’S pay?

    …Rotsa Ruck…

    ..also, if you DID have to defend yourself, you can be SURE the City of Portland will put you all over the media as a heartless, sexist, racist, h8ter while they start legal actions to take your stuff and give it to the homeless guy that attacked you, while doxxing you all the while so they can put your FAMILY in danger, TOO.

    …so, you have to be a garbagemanleohazmatworkeremtpsychologist who’s going to get physically and financially attacked if ONE crazy person says you made dem feeelz the sad.

    …are you SURE you want this contract?

    …well, God Bless you, because Portland sure won’t….

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  17. We have had family come into town on the train & would pick them up at Union Station. After seeing the filth from a few feet away (including people shooting up on the sidewalk with police right there and not doing anything) we now have the family stay on the train until Salem & pick them up there.

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  20. I just don’t get this. Portland is compassionate enough to require clean-up workers to be sensitive to the feelings of the homeless when cleaning up their shit and garbage, but not compassionate enough to do anything about the homeless. It goes without saying that Portland is not compassionate at all when it comes to the working citizens of Portland.

    If I’m living in a refrigerator box under an overpass and using the street as a toilet, I’m probably past the point of having any dignity left. Build a mental facility, relocate the mentally ill and drug addled to that facility, and provide them both shelter and treatment. For those who are subject to unfortunate, yet temporary circumstances, provide temporary shelters and assistance in turning around their fortunes – even if that means encouraging these folks to move to a more suitable area. The point is that compassion does not mean cleaning up after the homeless in a nice manner; compassion means doing something worthwhile to fix the root problems.

    This won’t happen because liberals always take the easy way out, and actually trying to turn someone’s life around is neither easy nor what liberals like to do. (Liberals love victims, and want to keep them that way).

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  21. Collectively these progressive shitholes have largely rejected God. There are people of faith living withing them. Very few though if you remove those who worship a God they have created to accommodate their desires and validate their delusions.

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  22. JDH
    JANUARY 8, 2020 AT 12:22 PM
    “Collectively these progressive shitholes have largely rejected God.”

    …they wrote ICHABOD over Portland’s City gates long ago…

    “1 Samuel 4:21
    And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father in law and her husband.”

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