Resistance: It's rage transcended, transformed into strategy, tactics and tenacity. What is it going to take to reconfigure the police and reconstruct public trust? Do we have to tear the existing structures down to the foundation...or can creativity save us from ourselves? There is a cold, hard core of sullen silence buried in the police department, insulated by the police union. It is that core where some kind of healing needs to happen. Many - dare I call it most - of Portland's police officers are "Everyday People". Is it possible for them to be empowered to influence the others? Or is it going to take stronger medicine? The beginning and the end of the question is Resistance: Point blank refusal to accept the absence of accountability, consequences, rule of law, responsibility among the ranks of Portland police. The quid pro status quo...
- KBOO