A Defund the Police Story

 So this is one of those stories that draw you into pondering.

Out in Portland, Oregon....there was this city commissioner....Jo Ann Hardesty.

This is an individual who was pushing hard to defund the local police.  She actually asked for a $18 million cut this past summer....which failed (3-2 vote).  She got pretty hyped-up after this....saying the mayor had a lack of courage.

So it comes out that this same person (Hardesty)....had to call 9-1-1 over a Lyft-driver incident.....around this same time period.

Reason?  He'd picked her up....had one window slightly down (maybe half-an-inch) to allow air flow.  She didn't want that....he refused to raise the window....so she calls the cops.

I sat and pondered over this.  It's hard to imagine this type of necessity being such....that you'd call the police (air flow through a window).  Usually, if cops are involved....it's 'serious' (at least you think that).

How long were the cops there to talk to the driver and Ms Hardesty?  Unknown.  

Is this a case where a social worker should have come out and spent an hour doing confrontation de-escalation?  Maybe.

But it's bothersome that she wanted to cut funding on the police....which she apparently had an urgent need their services.