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This is why I believe there needs to be a house-cleaning at PPB; it's unacceptable to have a police culture that is explicitly and unapologetically contemptuous of the citizens they're hired to protect. Can I rope in my other PDX buds to talk about this? @areidross @jason_a_w
A big part of the problem, right off the bat, is that the vast majority of these officers do not live in Portland proper. They live in the suburbs and exurbs. I spend time in Gresham. They hate libruls there and watch Fox 24/7. Big cultural difference.
But a lot of the reason they don't live there is because they can't afford it on a cop's salary. PPB doesn't pay well enough for people on its salaries to live within the city limits. That's a problem, I think.
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FWIW, I will continue to write for @splcenter, just not as frequently or regularly.
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If you'd like a retrospective on my work there, check out the Hatewatch YouTube channel sometime. I created all of these videos. It tells a tale.

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There's a big problem with this story: Hillborn simply is wrong about the SRKWs' primary food source. Fraser River Chinook are their primary feed only in summer months.

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In the non-summer months, multiple studies have demonstrated that SRKWs primarily feed on salmon along the Continental Shelf. The No. 1 source of those salmon is the Columbia. SRKWs have been recorded multiple foraging at the mouth of the Columbia in the winter.
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Ahahahahahaha. I missed this in our exchange last week.

Let's do a compare-and-contrast, shall we, @caitoz? I'll list the pieces I've done attacking Trump and his followers, and then you can do the same, and we'll stack 'em up, OK?
First, there's this. It's 400 pages long.

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Then the piece I cowrote with Sarah Posner for Mother Jones. This, BTW, is known as _investigative journalism_ (the real thing) and took us eight months to assemble.

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A short thread on how NOT to shift #culture

1) Weak leadership - enough said.
2) A vision that has been written by a few and adopted by the few that wrote it. It's understood by no-one.
3) A mission that is known by a select group who when questioned, don't know it. The school are certainly none the wiser. It's a mission that impresses from the outside looking in but is meaningless to the inside ones looking out.
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Company Culture Is ...

- What you say, and how often you say it
- What, when, and how you celebrate
- The losses and missteps you acknowledge, and how you respond
- How you behave when the chips are down
- What you fight for at all costs
- The corners you cut

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- The worst behavior you accept and the best behavior you reject
- The voices you amplify, and the voices you suppress

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That you're white isn't the reason you should NOT RT this piece. It's cuz you don't have 'locus standi', to use a legal term. More importantly, you're 100% devoid of context when you read this & surmise what you posit in your tweet. A fallacy, cuz you lack depth of understanding.
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Police should serve and protect, not this, never this:

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We dont need to assume. The fact that they dont report it is proof of their complicity. If I punched that cop in the face like that on camera I would be facing felony assault charges. Officers who see something but dont say anything are part of the problem
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