By J. D. Heyes


â€œThe trail was arduous and snaked through Missouri and present-day Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho and finally into Oregon,â€ theÂ History Channel notes. Thousands died of diseases and what are, today, easily treatable conditions like dysentery.Â 



In the age of POTUS Donald Trump, Portland has become ground zero for Leftist â€˜protestsâ€™ and violence. The lawlessness has become so pronounced, in fact, that the local sheriff has now instructed his deputies to stay out of the city because itâ€™s become too dangerous and they are getting no assistance from city police.

AsÂ Law Enforcement TodayÂ reported:Â 

Portland just lost a huge chunk of its police presence.


â€œI will not place you at unnecessary personal and professional risk,â€ the email read.Â 


The PPB gets assistance from neighboring counties including the Clackamas Sheriffâ€™s Department. However, with Robertsâ€™ decision, that means PPB officers will be under even more pressure from a lack of staffing, even as new protests are being staged and scheduled.

On May Day, Portland underwent another Left-wing protest â€” for â€˜immigrantâ€™ and â€˜workers rightsâ€™ set for the downtown area.

Left-wing Democrats are destroying American cities and civility

Part of the problem is that the Leftists who run Portland hamstring their own police department. In February, Mayor Ted Wheeler ordered an investigation into the Portland Police Bureau after hundreds of texts between a department lieutenant and â€œright-wing activistâ€ Joey Gibson were made public,Â The New York TimesÂ reported.

â€œCommunity members have long expressed concerns about police bias during demonstrations,â€ Mr. WheelerÂ said in a statementÂ a day before he announced the investigation. â€œIncidents like this contribute to the distrust that so many people have about the Portland Police Bureau.â€

The complaining â€˜community membersâ€™ heâ€™s talking about are Left-wing activists who have demonstrated open hostility towards the PPB andÂ allÂ police departments and officers, unlike Gibsonâ€™s organization.

And this is why Sheriff Roberts wonâ€™t send his deputies into Portland anymore: Left-wing hostility towards police that isÂ sanctionedÂ by city officials whoÂ are literally allowing the inmates to run the asylum.

In August,Â Wheeler attempted to preventÂ his own police department from sweeping up protesters manning a fetid, disgusting â€˜campâ€™ at a local ICE office, which prevented federal workers from doing their jobs. Some ICE agents reported being threatened by Antifa types and left to fend for themselves because Wheeler forbade his officers from intervening to help federal immigration authorities.Â 

POTUS Trump blasted Wheeler: â€œLast month, the mayor of Portland, Oregon shamefully ordered local police to stand down, leaving federal law enforcement officers to face an angry mob of violent people,â€ the president said.Â 

This is what itâ€™s coming to in American cities like Portland that are run by idiot Leftist Democrats: Lawless dens of violence and chaos, leading to a reduced police presence endangered residents.

Get ready to reap what Democrats are sowing; when cops stop showing up, mayhem isnâ€™t far behind.

A version of this story first appeared at NewsTarget.


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