Yeah, Jesse Jackson came to town and the local officials were fawning over him to get his endorsement for their "solution" to the problem, which is to build a multimillion dollar law enforcement training center in the city.

They have also jealously protected the department policy against drug testing cops involved in any shootings unless there was clear evidence of drug abuse. Local word is that steroid use is common here among law enforcement and effectively a protected activity. Some criminologists are saying that most of the local incidents can be attributed to "roid rage".

The other thing is the shooting took place in a racially mixed neighborhood and the victim was black, but the reality is there no truly black neighborhoods in Portland any more. Most of these types of killings in the last five years had white victims.

What is creepy is the affirmative action and diversity hiring now is focused on the immigrant communities from eastern Europe. No joke, I went by a police station a few months ago and the cops were jabbering back and forth in RUSSIAN.