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"I take no accountability"

aurora jacobsen

@superturbo.bsky.social

@bluntzkrieg420.bsky.social

Especially since his entire 2017 campaign was about managing the police more effectively than Hodges. He's had almost a decade to do so.

Bluntzkrieg420

@nowletmebeclear.bsky.social

Wow if only the mayor had some sort of control over the police department

olive enjoyer

one would think that a 3rd term mayor would understand that the pen (writing a budget) is mightier than the sword (having the chamber of commerce purchase a strong-mayor amendment to the city charter)

Ryan McTague

@piscadork.bsky.social

Portland Police do the same thing. They complained about getting a smaller budget increase, referring to it as a cut. Multiple officers are among the most highly paid employees after OT. They have tons of open positions, for years, and won't fill them but say they need more money for new officers.

Betsy Hodges

@betsyhodges.bsky.social

When he was Council Member the mayor recognized and addressed this issue in her budgets, being open and transparent about it and its impact on other services and the tax levy. Took heat for it, too, but by golly those budgets were structurally balanced.

Betsy Hodges

@betsyhodges.bsky.social

(Structurally balanced means ongoing dollars for ongoing services and one-time dollars for one-time expenditures, including not pretending police overtime wasn’t ongoing.)

Betsy Hodges

@betsyhodges.bsky.social

Why the third person? I dunno. I felt like it.

Joseph

@jamusco.bsky.social

You Be Illin'. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illeism

Frey's defense is, we're spending about what we would've spent if MPD had 888 officers. Does that mean the department has a budget for 888 officers? "No."

Frey: "it's a fair argument to say let's transparently account for the actual costs of [police] overtime. Or at least estimate the actual cost of overtime." But to say we don't need to spend this money on police overtime is not a fair argument.

Question about why his budgets have so drastically underestimated police overtime. Frey points to how understaffed MPD is. Staffing per capita is among lowest in country. He doesn't say why this reality, which has existed for many years, was not reflected in his budgets.