Crime in Portland, OR, United States

This used to be a phenomenal place to live. There was a low crime index, everyone was accommodating, kind and helpful. It was safe. There was a mass exodus of people from California and all has changed. The cost of rent/homes are extortionate, the freeways are clogged/dangerous and people just tend to be more antisocial and self-serving. After "Portlandia" people flocked to this "ideal city". It is a haven for the mentally ill homeless. I had a homeless person come to my door knocking to ask for a hand out and threatened me if I didn't comply. The police did ZERO. It's like being in a third world country. It is heartbreaking. Good people were chased out to the Burbs, which are also getting worse by the day.
"Sky-is-falling fearfulness" is real.

I’m a 3rd generation Oregonian.. I was born and raised in the Portland, OR. area. Grade school, high school and college. I moved to Chicago in 1985 and just returned to Portland, in 2015.
Every comment that is printed here is true. Portland is being taken over by drug addicted homeless people who want no help from the city services. The homeless camps out number the city parks. Local government will do nothing because they are worried about hurting someone’s feelings. Mayor Ted Wheeler and city commissioner Joanne Hardesy have ruined any hope of our city recovering from the desperate destruction by the homeless drug users and dealers. It is NOT a crime in the city of portland to steal a car or to steal, or shoplift any merchandise from any nationality recognized chain store. Kroger, Target, Trader Joe’s and other stores will not prosecute, arrest or even call the Portland Police Department for any reason … one reason being that PPD just refuses to answer calls. I have witnessed people walking out of these stores with shopping carts full of merchandise, past "security" and out to the parking lot without being stopped or questioned. City officials known that the majority of the residents in Portland, are still bleeding hearts and do not mind having the increase of store prices go through the roof and being passed on to them.. Now because of the higher fuel prices I noticed more and more "normal" people, residents shoplifting also. There is a "if they can do it so can I" attitude here in Portland, OR. now. It’s just so sad. It’s becoming a third world city … correction… it IS a third world city.

It is amazing what the socialist democratic local government has done to portland in only 2 years. The decline is extraordinary unlike anything I’ve ever seen. Its almost as if the mayor wheeler and the city council of very freaky and high school educated radical woman and poc actually wanted to destroy what was only a couple years ago the place to move to. Tent cities everywhere. drugs. crime. murder. skyrocketing property tax. Its unbelievable.