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Submitted By: genedieken@yahoo.com – Click to email about this post

I agree with Dixie about something!
Oregon must put much more money and attention into the public defender system. Trying to avoid hiring public employees by hiring private lawyers for gig work is largely inadequate to live up to the requirements of the 6th Amendment or MLK’s famous quote, “Justice long delayed is justice denied.”
I can’t entirely agree with her that the point of Defender reform should be to put more people in jail. I worry that compassion denied can soon become enmity applied.
Here’s an interview with the executive director of the Oregon Office of Public Defense Services that aired last August: www.opb.org/article/2023/08/22/head-of-oregon-office-of-public-defense-services-on-progress-toward-solving-the-attorney-crisis/
In the same post, Dixie worried about where her Kicker refund was. Oregon’s not stiffing you. File your 2023 state tax form. www.oregon.gov/dor/programs/individuals/pages/kicker.aspx
Gene Dieken

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Submitted By: dixiegainer@gmail.com – Click to email about this post

PUBLIC SAFETY WHERE DID IT GO?

NO. 2

Defunding the police? I couldn’t believe this when I heard it. No civilization can exist without law and order and where we live – law and order is the the police!

But they did defund the police. And so now we do not have law and order to the point where crime is right in your face in these little coastal towns. The Oregon governor is asking for a tax to be put on our homes to pay for law and order otherwise known as Public Safety.

You know what – Lets just fund the police again – OK

Are there things wrong with the police – yes – can they be addressed? yes Usually these things can be addressed by hiring requirements and screening, and training. Screen out the bullies, screen out the personalities that don’t match with good policing/public relations.
Really – it is hard to be a police person – they do face danger every day – don’t forget that. I do know that there are cops that like to harass people, certain types of people, and I think they pick on the citizens who will easily react badly to being harassed. I have seen this happen here. That is a really bad thing but you know what they say about the baby and the bathwater. Don’t throw out the baby along with the dirty bathwater.

Don’t defund the police because if you do crime will escalate. And it has, terribly -right in your face!
Tillamook county is not favorable to policing. The commissioners tried to cut positions but due to citizen action did not. We might not need more police if we could put the offenders behind bars and have a stiff penalty.

The criminals around here might not be hard to catch but the police cannot arrest them or if they do they are right back on the street again.

More taxes will not fix this.

More money for more police. Not more money for the governor – because she will not spend it on policing.

1. There are more criminals on the street because we have not taken care of the problem of providing for more public defenders.
2. There are more criminals on the street because the state decided to defund the police.
leading to more crime and increasing the number of murders.
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Submitted By: dixiegainer@gmail.com – Click to email about this post

I have lived in Oregon for 73 years, so I know that in the past we did not have burgeoning crime in our streets. So what are the things that have promoted crime in this state?
It just turns out this is a great state to commit crime in
because:

NO.1 The law says that when persons are incarcerated they have a right to an attorney. But when they can’t afford an attorney they get a public defender.
There is an extreme shortage of public defenders in Oregon. This is not a new problem, but it has not been addressed. Oregon must get criminal defendants attorneys within 7 days or release them from jail, judge says.
So the criminals are on the street right away. Oregon has 1/3 of the number of public defenders we need.

The states that do not have this problem have public defenders as employees of the state and as such they get retirement benefits and other perks and a much better income than they do now working for charitable organizations. It is not a good paying job and it is overwhelming. So nobody wants this job – you can understand why.

So if we want to increase public safety we need to get criminals judiciously processed into or out of the system.

This is not happening and putting criminals back on the street just encourages them to commit more crime because there does not seem to be any penalties for that.
Drug addicts included. Democrats are soft on crime! The state has not addressed this long time problem. They just don’t address it. Before we become insane about paying more taxes in a high tax state. Let us see the state solve one problem that is part of the cause of crime. They are not trying to solve the problem, they just want to convince you that they need more taxes. Don’t you believe it.

Right now our state is buried in money. We are supposed to get some of that money back in the kicker. It is supposed to be the biggest kicker ever.

I say the state should take care of the lack of enough public defenders by changing the way this job is paid for and hire public defenders as state employees. This would make the job more desirable. Other states do this.
NO on taxing homes for public safety, (cause lack of money is not the problem)

Submitted By: nehalembayexperience@gmail.com – Click to email about this post

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Submitted By: babbles@nehalemtel.net – Click to email about this post

I stand by my post last night in reply to this one from the night before: “Have a question about Manzanita City issues Ask a councilor.”

I made a mistake however. The person who submitted the original post, Mark Kuestner, is not a city councilor.

Again, i stand by the sentiment that this is a good way to find accurate answers. You know, “straight from the horse’s mouth.”

I apologize for my error–i do NOT want to create confusion!

om peace namaste

lucy brook