They wanted lawlessness, they got it. Looks to me like the problem is trying to sort itself out. I feel bad for emergency services tho, I see this causing mental health issues in their ranks.
I agree my heart breaks for emergency services. What a disgrace and look I know the city/state/government isn’t doing their part but these people are making decisions that aren’t helping in anyway and trashing the town leaving dope where kids can get it-i can’t even with this and it’s happening all over this country. What happened to us!
@@selketskiss56they are ems they care about all lives. They don't pick and choose who they help. Many of these drugs are very harmful, the government doesn't care about the people. It's all about money and power! They are ruin all our communities!
I think its a step towards the opposite of lawlessness, since now L.E can free up all the wasted man hours on petty personal use arrests and spend that solving actual crimes not just some homeless person who wants to make thier shiitty existence a little easier to bare by getting high....leave em to it....there's more important things!
Well, if they follow through and do what I believe it was what Portugal did, they decriminalized all drugs, and then put all the funding put into fighting drugs that way, into programs to actually help addicts, and get to the root problems of drug abuse, and it worked far beyond expectations. But it must be done the right way. Otherwise, it's all for naught. The root causes of addiction must be addressed, otherwise, it will never end.
@@DougBishop thank you. I'm a survivor of trauma and abuse. And in my younger years, I did my fair share of self medicating for those reasons. Fortunately, I'm a bit mentally stronger mentally and didn't go permanently down that route to help. But, I see a lot of that in active addiction. And when people get clean, then have relapses, becuse they don't address the root causes. In my humble opinion.
Exactly! Enacting such will require some help. Nothing seems to be a criminal act in Portland anymore. Rioting, fires. Currently they are attempting to clean up the streets that they quite literally are paying people to live on! I can go across the border form Idaho, claim I am homeless, jobless, hungry ect and walk out w food stamps, gas vouchers, medical coverage and a $1000 housing allowance. The fact there isn't any housing is not a problem, foodstamps and vouchers are exchanged for actually currency. No wonder half the state wants to become part of Idaho. Lol
I'm a native Oregonian. I saw what was happening to my beautiful city, where I was raised, back in 1998. We left there in June of 1998 and won't be back. Best decision I ever made for my family.
I live about 20 miles west of Portland and the drug problems and homelessness is completely out of control. My boyfriend's 31 year old daughter is strung out on fentanyl. He brought her home just over a year ago from Albuquerque where she made the stupid choice to try it at least 3 years ago. He wanted to get her here to "save" her. Unfortunately the first thing she did was steal money from me, sneak off to a homeless camp too close for comfort and immediately found her drug of choice. I don't think her dad understood how evil and addicting this drug is. In my opinion, I think he should have gotten her in a rehabilitation center for 24/7 care under a doctor's care along with proper therapy. She has not wanted to quit and said she doesn't want to because she likes it too much. Having her live here was too much for me. Drug addicts steal and lie and do whatever they can to get a fix. She's done very bad things and has hurt many people. I even smelled the odor of her using in this house more than once. It caused problems for her dad and myself because of her stealing from me, more than once and then a homeless guy showed up at our front door because she told him where we live. That was very unsettling and made me feel unsafe. I don't like to have to hide my purse or worry about her stealing or smoking fentanyl in our home. Because she discovered that she can't live here anymore thinking her lifestyle is somehow supposed to be ok while she chooses to live the junky culture & do anything she wants here, instead, she's decided to live outside in a homeless camp where she can have unlimited access to this drug despite the fact that she actually overdosed and died. She wasn't revived until a full ambulance ride to the hospital and finally in the emergency room. That didn't stop her. It is so sad and I do fear for her and worry a lot. But she has to make the choice to quit trying to kill herself again. I worry and hope her dad will not have to identify her body in the morgue one day and the longer she uses, the bigger the chance that she will. Oregon is enabling the homeless camps and drug problems and also, making our state a sanctuary state is like an oxymoron because the only ones that these so-called leaders are doing is causing everyone else who works hard, pay taxes and trying to feel safe in our homes, neighborhoods, places of business, not feel so safe because the crimes that this culture brings here. It's everywhere now. Not just Portland but now into the suburbs and near peoples' private homes. I live in a small university town and less than a mile away, in a wooded area there's a lot of people trashing the natural areas of property backed up to homes and the homeowners live in fear and have had to warn them of the consequences if they step foot onto their properties. I see clean up crews a couple times a month and also police cars there at least once a week., ( I don't think they can do anything at all, and the burdens on the tax payers), to kick them out and bring in dumpsters and crews to clean up after them. But they all go right back and do it all again. I want out of Oregon. The State where I was born and raised. Maybe they should pay attention to how Oklahoma handles this kind of problem bcz I think they've got a good solution.
@Doug Bishop: thank you so much for making and posting this video. Well done! And thank you for all you do with AWP! You are an inspiration and a kind and thoughtful man.
You can't decriminalize without first setting up supportive programs, ensuring detox, rehab/treatment beds on demand is in place and COVID ready with enough spaces. You also need Supervised Consumption Spaces, but because it's not Federally approved, no-one will open one officially for fear of arrest and being closed down. If you have enough of these places, people will use inside and have access to services. Here in Seattle, we passed it 5 years ago and still waiting for 2. In Seattle, we've had a number of camp fires started by humans. In the winter, there tend to be more tent fires as people use hand sanitizer in candle holders to stay warm, but the fire gets really high and burns the tent. I had heard that Portland was bad. I hope that things improve for everyone soon.
Oh the Libtard bureaucrats in Oregon, Washington, California, government have been giving out free needles, condoms, abortions and encouraging youth to try sex and drugs as early as possible for a decade or two now. They take all power and elements of discipline away from parents, insist on and force parents to raise children "Their way" then feign surprise when populations are destabilized. Seems like the systems they were interested in got all the funding necessary. The actually intelligent humans knew what all this pandering to the simple minded and liberals (Oops I said Simple Minded twice) would lead to. No surprises for the Libtard Leadership or conservatives. Only difference is the DNC wanted this crap. The higher the crime rate, and homelessness is the happier the Libtard Left is, their plan is definitely working.
What a shame, I'm very disappointed in our Mayor and city council for allowing these people to disgrace and destroy the beautiful city I grew up in. I've lived here for 50yrs and have never seen it this bad and it's just going to get worse if nothing is done. These people need help! I feel like everyone just turns a blind eye to the problem. I'm guilty of it. I don't like to think that this is going to be the way it is from now on. It's very sad 😥. I wish I had the answers, but back to our local government, do your jobs and help these people! Thanks, I needed to get off my chest.
First you say they are disgraceful. Then you say they need help. Which is it? These were ppl just like us til the government stepped in and started killing America. These ppl are dealing with it the only way they can. Help solve the problem, not be part of the problem.
It's sad.. Nobody growing up decides that they wanna be a drug addict when they grow up.. I'm grateful for a little over 10 years in sobriety! Addiction sucks for the addicts as well as all that love and care about them!! My heart hurts for those still sick and suffering! YOU ARE WORTHY!!
You can still come to Portland there's nothing to be scared of the only people you should be afraid of is the cops they are corrupt they can only get the innocent and then picking shoes what they want to get to arrest otherwise Portland's pretty cool it really it's a lawless City I have seen a lot Portland's going to hell in a handbasket
Try Eugene - a nicer city. I lived there more than 10 years. Of course it is liberal due to the University of Oregon being located there. But it is NOTHING like Antifa in Portland.
2 years later and some politicians are realizing the horrible mistake they made. Problem is it takes months for the system to collapse and years to rebuild. Especially when you have advertised to all drug users to come to your state because you won’t get arrested.
I think that the voters need to stand up and vote these people out of office if they really want to see change in their state. I am currently following the groups of counties in Oregon that are trying to leave the state and join Idaho because the residents of those counties are sick and tired of two ultra liberal cities (Portland and Eugene) forcing policies on the rest of the state that nobody else wants. In a perfect world I would LOVE to see those counties become part of Idaho because not only would the state of Oregon lose the tax base from those people but they would also lose electoral votes since it is based on population!
It is really heart breaking that the leadership cares so little for their citizens. If I lived there I would move, especially if I had children to raise. Laws protect people from themselves. VOTE THEM OUT! Thanks for your hard work on AWP!
Portland. So sad, it's everywhere. The town I live in used to be a clean little town. Now I see creepers walking down my street. My neighbors along with myself watch out for each other, and holler at these creepers, they run off. Sometimes I've taken pictures of these creatures, just in case.
Doug, why are there so many small but raging fires? I love seeing you on AWP and especially appreciate when you explain towing techniques and details. You're a great teacher.
Oh wow… is this serious?! Why on gods earth allow all drugs to be legal?!! I mean I know I live in the Uk and our laws are very different but this is just asking for absolute chaos!!! 😳😳
I'm 64, born and raised in N.E. Portland, worked as a city cop there 35 years. Thank God I left to small town Arizona 4 years ago. Lots of us saw this coming. Breaks my heart to see what insanity now rules. No city Government, demoralized Police and assholes doing whatever they want because they are insane or want insanity. Sadly I won't go back, used to be a wonderful town. Great video though, someone has to get the word out.
What a shame, I'm very disappointed in our Mayor and city council for allowing these people to disgrace and destroy the beautiful city I grew up in. I've lived here for 50yrs and have never seen it this bad and it's just going to get worse if nothing is done. These people need help! I feel like everyone just turns a blind eye to the problem. I'm guilty of it. I don't like to think that this is going to be the way it is from now on. It's very sad 😥. I wish I had the answers, but back to our local government, do your jobs and help these people! Thanks, I needed to get off my chest.
You should know then that just locking people up for a gram of dope won't change anything....sending them to treatment hopefully will. I got in trouble...stupid mistake and my county offered a jail defer program....I went to treatment....it literally changed my life....
@@awrench99 yes, my daughter did the same thing and she is a badass on the loose in Town now. Unfortunately I lost my 30 year old son to the lifestyle there. so glad you took advantage of the program and got out. God bless you and keep it up!
@@vince1638 im sorry for both situations regarding your children. Yes of course its not for everyone but I believe it can make a dent if done correctly. On an off note I actually just moved to az a month ago myself :)
@@awrench99 Wow thats crazy! were in Lake Havasu City and love it here. Its hot but dry, like a microwave! I have 1 daughter (they are twins) who is still in her addiction visiting me for a week Thursday. She is a sweetheart and has never stole from me in her life. Haven't spent more than a few hours with her in years. Im praying for a nice visit but am prepared for disappointment, as all parents of addicts must be. I appreciate your comments, God Bless You :)
If we don't do something it's going to get worse. Mental health addiction and homelessness are huge problems in America. I don't have the answers but am willing to help with a solution that works. Please there has got to be some ideas out there that make things better. I don't think that people want to have to live this way. I don't think they know how to break the cycle they're in. It breaks my heart to see people with so little hope. We all need to put ourselves in their position and maybe all of us can help change the future of so many people living in these conditions.
Portland has been doing every bit of marketing it possibly can to represent itself as a Hip, Liberal city. The government also thought it'd be great to institute the more Enlightened, or European model of viewing drug addictions as a mental health crisis- which it no doubt is, HOWEVER... what The State of Oregon hasn't done first is what those European countries Already Have... which is to have a public freely Educated en masse above the K-12 level, and a public who is, for the most part, already anti-drug in mode and thought. The American System has romanticized drug use, paraphernalia, etc. It's not an anti-drug culture, but one that celebrates it. Not only this, America doesn't have The Infrastructure that the European countries have where there's virtually no shortage of drug counselors for their population. Here in America, resources for mental health are pretty much non-existent! For that reason alone, if not for the other reasons already stated, Oregon ISN'T prepared to have adopted such a policy like this... AND, if anything, it demonstrates how Inept the leadership is here.
Very well said. I agree with everything you wrote. European countries that were and are successful with these sort of policies should have been modeled prior to implementing this. I just hope somehow things get better. Very skeptical though. Thank you for watching.
@@DougBishop I appreciate what you do to expose these issues. Found out about you through AWP. I was homeless in Portland approx. 2013 for about 6 months in the fall/winter season. The streets were much different back then. I just made it a goal to travel solo and get a job, not hang out with any of those drug people. Resources at that time were basically thus: approx. $200 food stamps, no hot meals, which means you can go through that money fast at gas stations if you don't have a fridge to put stuff in, no cheap loose/raw ingredients to stock up in pantries to assemble future meals. So with that money going fast, it also makes sense to subsidize using food banks, which are led by good community members. They have a few places where you can get a dress shirt, take a shower and get laundry done for free (after standing in line for 4 hours lol), and they can provide an address to give to employers. I showed up for a telemarketing interview and this young gal who was probably making $12/hr. at the time, even though I explained to her I already had previous telemarketing experience and led the sales board at the previous company, she took one look at homeless me and said, "well, we have to take care of ourselves". I was a bit dirty and smelled bad, but instead of telling her, "you dummy, I'd like to see you in this situation." I just explained nothing and left. There's an interesting stigma against "the homeless". For some people like Jared from AWP, it put a fire in him and motivated the heck out of him to start making something of his life. At one point he was eating pizza from trash cans and sneaking into stairwells to sleep... an upgrade from the bushes! For me, it was a time in my life where I just didn't want to participate in life or keep this- what I considered- Failing System or society to perpetuate itself. After a while, I realized being homeless wasn't what it appeared like at first: Freedom. After a while you realize that being homeless can be harder than having a day job... except, after all that work, you don't get a safe, warm place to sleep, or a shower. So there are people who are out there right now getting comfortable in those RV's shooting heroin on the side of the roads, who have no desire to get out of that "life-style".... death style, rather. And then you have people where the total sense of Nothingness, Emptiness, Isolation just turns you into Something Else. It changes you Forever. There are stories from India of initiates who undergo sleeping in burial grounds, who wear the ashes of the dead, who sleep in the cold getting sick for years uttering mantras. And then something happens... they have this sort of sudden realization of what it is to suffer and just what it means, they get out of the burial grounds they go to college, they become doctors and start hospitals. This is an extreme/esoteric example, but like a lightswitch, something just turns on all the sudden; the entire person. Me, I went from nothing to approx. 70k/yr CDL A truck driver. Within 6 years after being on the street with not a cent to my name, and I'd of probably done greater things sooner if I had more support, or... A Clue. But I think the thing that helped me the most was realizing I had to do it on my own, no support, no clue. Just learn first hand. Directly. So what I learnt living on the streets in just 6 months Forever changed me and I wouldn't change it for the world, nor would I wish what I went through on anyone. So my relationship with "the homeless" is a bit complicated, because I want to help them. But because of not having any help I was FORCED to help myself. And that's what changed Everything, from then on. So if I were to give a person on the street a dollar or 20, I feel like I would be disadvantaging them- by making them feel "it's Okay to keep putting my hand out because Someone Else will do it for me"... thus, I see it as, I will not help them by "helping" them, I will just be delaying the precious moment where they have the same precious realization I did. So I think this matter of "the homeless" and homelessness itself is a real sociological issue, but unfortunately- on top of this- it's often complicated these days by drug use, crime, arson... and everything else that comes with it... where it becomes, all the sudden, a political issue, a socio-economic one, a police issue, etc. Etc. Sorry for the long rant. Unfortunately, society is a bit f*cked. Our species tends to Entropy, when it should- in my personal Utopia- glorify respect for our fellows through a comraderie of Shared Liberty and Patriotism... and not in a sense that it has to exist because we've been indoctrinated to accept it, but because we realize it may be our best shot at Furthering our society and thus, our species as a whole. And this is not even to open the can of worms as to the arguments for Isolationism (like the U.S. was prior to WW2) or Globalization... this is a nod to the laws that are becoming changed in each country to reflect each other, so at some point, Nation-States may be more easily dissolved into each other. But yes, I argue that the very issue of homelessness itself, our perception of the homeless, how the homeless interact even; says so much of A Société, but not only that, plays into the politics of Humanity Itself, Our Entire World :)
Liberalism brought to you by Californians who moved up in the 80's due to housing prices in California. I know, I lived in Oregon from by birth until I was 40 and the Californians starting moving to Oregon - I moved out to get away from what the Californians were doing to Oregon. Their first goal was to take over the land and properties (develop) the Oregon Coast. Remember Gov. McCall, your Republican governor in the 1980s who said he wanted to put a 10' chain link fence around Oregon to keep the Californians out? Too bad he couldn't. Californians californicated Oregon and look what the result is. Californians moved out of California but brought their mindset and politics with them. It is right now happening the same in Texas, Florida and Idaho. Boise, Idaho now has median housing prices almost 10 times the annual wage there. Californians brought their money from selling their expensive homes when they sold in California to Boise and home prices have been driven sky high - literally. Idahoans are quite upset at the Californias - since, as they say, it has forced young Boise families who lived there and wanted to buy homes there, to move away because these young families cannot afford to compete with Californians for homes in their own hometown (where their parents and families live).
What would u suggest, all I hear from the right are conspiracy theories and hate for the lgbtq+ community, while the Republicans give major tax cuts to their donors and squeeze more money out of the middle and lower class in America. Republicans only care for kids in ur belly wen they come out ur on ur own, no school programmes, health care, or any support for the kids. They cut all that out but let's give more money to the corporations and fund wars all over the world while American kids go to bed hungry. It's not a Liberal thing it's ur system is corrupt, corporations buy ur politicians and the Politicians spew identity politics at its voters, get u all angry over stupid shit like gender while they get rich and vote they way they were paid to, while u all are none the wiser and follow their lead......ur country is fucked and full of corruption and hate. The rest of the world are now wise to the fake dream u sold us "America the greatest country in the world!, come here and get the Americanss dream the beacon on a hill !!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 that's a lie and a joke! And we all realise it now
I have always been amazed about how little people really know about addiction and treatment. Until we as a society recognize that addiction is a medical metal health problem, we are going to continue this path. The War on Drugs has been America's longest war and will continue and be a disaster. The Industrial Prison Complex Industry will continue and has been fed well by the War on Drugs. War is the largest business in the US and I served in the military. So I guess I'm part of the problem and not part of the solution. The Germans thought they had the Final Solution and we all know how that went. We have created a middle class of state dependent warriors that make their living from the War on Drugs. Law enforcement, Prison Systems and government agencies that hire and suck the taxpayers money and still no solution. We get what we deserve.
Given that our southern border is basically wide open and unprotected, Mexican cartels are pumping fentanyl laced drugs into the country freely. Instead of securing the border, the agents are getting pulled to help process and babysit the kids belonging to 400,000+ "asylum-seekers" monthly. Since Biden announced everyone can come, they are! Since this administration will do nothing (other than cover it up by flying people in the middle of the night to other cities across the country), the drugs are crossing that border day and night, and dispersing into our communities. It's out of control! Something has to give....
That is so sad. I lived in Portland 27 years ago and I remember them trying to legalize marijuana while I was riding my bike in the riverfront park. My friends that live nearby have been saying what a problem the homeless camps are. I don't know why the government puts up with it.
I am careful. Fortunately I did not film this particular one and was not in any danger. I would definitely suggest waiting until Portland cleans up. Portland is actually a beautiful city and a super fun place when it is not in shambles.
@@DougBishop It uses to be one of the safest places to live. My brother lived up there for 7 years and it was beautiful and trendy. Now it's like the movie "Escape from LA" It will be great again, just going to take time.
Your video is as good, if not better, than any documentary I have ever viewed. VERY powerful. I was unaware of Portland 's degradation caused by drug "availability. "
Makes me want to cry 😢. Growing up in Oregon yes there were problems, but it just keeps getting worse and worse, and it is because of those that cater to the idea of if it feels good do it. A lot of people believe it is not hurting anyone else but themselves, however yes, yes it does. I don't believe all of those people have mental disabilities unless you count drug induced mental issues. Something needs to be done, but I don't believe making the drugs more accessible is the right thing to do.
the problem was already there, legalizing it only brings it out into the light. somebody that desires to stay away from drugs will never take it, even if it is legal.
As an Oregonian since 1975 I was amazed the voters approved the legalization of possession of all drugs, even the worst ones such as heroin, meth, oxycodone and cocaine.
I lived in Oregon (near Roseburg and then Eugene) for decades until I moved away in 1987. I have not been back since. Californians started moving to Oregon in early 80's due to increasing housing prices in California. They brought their politics with them and destroyed Oregon. Gov. McCall advocated putting a 10 ft. chain link fence on Oregon's border to keep the Californians out. Too bad he couldn't. We loved the Oregon at that time - we enjoyed white water rafting after we would work all day - loved the coast - Yachats, Newport, Cape Perpetua - beautiful areas. On weekends we would drive up the McKenzie or Willamette and shoot the white water. Sadly we moved out of state for better jobs and have not been back... and won't go back. I was shocked when Oregon voted in euthanasia. Now they are openly trying to destroy the lives of their citizens with drugs. But what do you expect when they support and protect Antifa, suppress conservative speech and do not support their law enforcement.
@@sassylady2001 You're referring to the big cities of Portland, Salem, Eugene and now sadly Bend Oregon. Everywhere else it's primarily conservative. But the main population centers are mostly liberal. Curious where you live now that you find so heavenly. I live in Oregon City, a mostly conservative city .... so far.
@@chuckster3629 Agreed. I lived in Roseburg and Eugene. My husband got his undergraduate degree 2 years at Oregon State and 2 years at U of O. Bend was a mecca for the retired but I don't know if it is still that or have other groups found Bend attractive also? I never said that where I live now I find heavenly. Every area has its drawbacks and well as good points. However, what is important to our family is better here than it is in Oregon. We moved east of the Mississippi River.
I'm glad I live where I do...you visited my beautiful city while looking for Tammy ❤️ we have our fair share of drug problems and crime, but nothing like what's in this video.
So when this first hit I immediately thought what a horrible idea. Then years went by and I got a tooth ache. One of my wisdom teeth got pissed off. I would not be given any pain killers despite having never been accused or convicted of a drug crime of any kind. Then one day it hit me, just get my pain meds off the streets. It is not my first choice, but I refuse to live in pain because a small fringe of society abuses medication. So the war on drugs in the form of prescription pain killers also managed to find a way to still help people in enough pain to seek a solution on the streets. Whoever decided this was the best way forward in health care thinks like a 3rd world simpleton.
Im from Australia and didnt know this existed in the US to this extent, its not common knowledge and its not ever really shown on mainstream media, seems its being swept under the rug. so this was three years ago, has it got better? or worse or just the same?
I am enjoying your youtube channel and that of AWP. You are so important to AWP - I really enjoy watching you guys. Take care and stay safe in 2022. I am in central Alabama, watching your videos while we are under tornado watch on New Years Day. We've had several tornados drop within the adjacent county in the last few days. I lived in Oregon 25 years, but moved when the politics from California took over Oregon. So sorry Portland has become such a mess. My mother lived in Portland for years and we would go up there for the Portland Rose Parade. But no more. Take care of you and yours and stay safe.
I live in a quiet village in the UK and this is so soul destroying for these people and others living amongst all the mayhem, how can this be a way to solve anything, they need help , it’s devastating
Same here Sandra, I’m in a little village in the north of England and Portland looks like a post apocalyptic nightmare. It’s so sad to watch people do this to themselves because they don’t see a way out.
Exactly, I have never seen such behaviour or heard of this in the UK. I am sure there are pockets of it, but we are beyond sheltered here in the UK. I too live in a quiet village in Scotland.
I live in a small town just a few hrs west of Seattle and a lot of us here are asking the same question. In America, our “ leaders” turn a blind eye to this type of living. In fact they promote it by letting criminals be criminals with ZERO consequences & decriminalizing drugs all while allowing them to use it for “personal use”. Here in Washington state we have what’s called a needle exchange. A place that passes out free and clean needles.. some even provide them with a “safe place” to do drug of choice while someone is sitting right there to help you and call paramedics in case you overdose. These same people are allowed to pitch a tent, build a “house” out of plywood right downtown in front of businesses, under over passes, next to freeways, & in parks. Parents here can’t even take their children to the park in some places in fear of all the dirty used needles you see laying around all over. If it doesn’t effect our governor, Oregons governor, Californias governor, or any other governor in states that look like this while they live in a safe gated community, live in a big beautiful home, have their own private security for protection, private planes, no worry about how they’re gonna feed their family or if they have enough gas in the car to make it to work and back than they don’t care what policy or laws they put in place that will only effect us.
@@ItssKrea It is a total affront to America as a whole!! I can't even begin to imagine how many accidents happen due to this, and the fear that people must have in their community. I was not thinking as far as children, but yes - wow, how awful for children to see this. No one should have to grow up in this war zone. thinking this is normal. First responders/fire/police must be round the bend with the chaos. now we know what legalising drugs looks like. HORROR!!
@@ItssKrea that is so bad, it seems like they’re just helping them along on a road to self destruction so they’re no longer a problem when they do overdose, that’s never going to get better, and along with drugs there’s crime when they’re desperate , I’m just shocked at how people walk past like its the norm, that in itself shows how bad it is, I can’t imagine how anyone can raise kids and not be filled with fear every time they walk out the door, I don’t blame the people, I blame the system and lack of support , I feel for all the people trying to live a normal life
All it will do is line the government’s pockets and they won’t stop the black market, if they think legalising it putting the prices up is going to stop people they are wrong, it hopefully will help some people ❤️ I hope they have plenty of councillors available for those that need it, it’s hard to believe in this day and age that so many people are living on the streets like this Doug you take care and stay safe, if possible please don’t go back there 💞
Almost looks like LA. What is being done? I am in MD. On another note, we missed you on the goodbye to Dan show. Hang in there, you are one of the good ones.
I use to live in Washington State.. I loved to visit Portland and Seattle.. but now I wont go there.. They have both become like San Fran.. Disgusting, dangerous and out of control.. If those cities wont clean up their mess people like me are just going to avoid them at all cost..
Thinning of the herd? I don't know, I just go back to that old saying you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink. Although it is extremely sad, you need to remember there are people out there that WANT to be helped. I personally have a birth mother that I have had to finally just say enough is enough to.
We wanted to move to Astoria OR but the governor decided to lower the educational standards and then she allows every drug to be available. That’s a NO. About the only thing I do in OR is go hiking periodically since I live in east WA. Good luck Doug, I’m glad I found you!
That was so bleakly funny. When you put that upbeat song along with the madness. Cracked me up. I can say this because I’m a sober amphetamine addict -gone from certifiably barking mad to just mildly insane on a good day
WOW😮 I put you & your family into my prayer list for protection and prosperity a while back….🤔🤔🤔guess I better ask God to triple the angels and hedge of protection if this is going on where you live! It’s just so sad the contributions to society drugs rob us of! You Mr. Bishop are soooo important to not just those of us that are fans but to all the lives you have & have yet to help, stay safe! 💜💛💙❤️
Makes me sad. Born, raised, 5th generation Oregonian and one of those homeless druggies in Portland is my niece whom I haven't seen in 4 years. We moved to Montana 3 years ago because of all the issues in Oregon.
That is just nasty to see . Ive seen alot of bad bad things an this tops it all .. @DOUG BISHOP you are do a good thing showing this to the world and the balls you have my friend to get up close and personal in all this is amazing .. great job bro for real james
the world as we know it is failing brother. nothing will ever be alright. we need change in this world or we will lose everything. i can understand people do drugs because it takes them to a place where they can be free from the problems in their lives, but we also need to help them to. instead of ignoring them. they are humans to. they shouldn't be put down or treated any differently. give them the help and support they deserve! love ya brother be safe doug! your pal jimmy carson.
Wow.. it’s sad to see what drugs make people capable of doing! And all the rest that comes with it. Yes it will definitely clean up the state and hopefully put people back on track.
I believe you will find that it is most often homelessness, mental health issues, abuse and judgemental people who lead to these sorts of scenes. Yes many will be on drugs but if you were in their shoes you likely would be too.
It looks like something from a movie from a 3rd world country. We are becoming so desensitized to the state of our country. If we keep waiting for someone else to fix the issues we will just continue to deterate and destroy ourselves.
✌🏽 Please don't ever come back for a vacation or anything. You're the type of person who complains about everything probably and then sits on his ass and does nothing to contribute. good riddance have fun in Texas
So sad to see so many peoples lives corrupted with drugs and the city destroyed looked like it used to be a beautiful city once upon a time sending my love from across the pond 🇬🇧
Doctors are getting prison sentencing for their crimes. Drug dealers are filling a void but also will go to prison. We can't allow self harm in any fashion.
Great great video off a world gone broken. Such a catastrophic mess.. all caused by us. People. What a sad unaccountable race we are. I sit on a rainy day - broken - trying to stay clean. Phone in hand - charger in wall…. I temember stepping into my wardrobe just screaming from all within me to try to find myself again. Most of those broken people don’t have those fine fine luxuries I’m using to have so much as a second to try to find themselves. Excruciatingly beyond sad… then the tv skips to a commercial of starving children with no eyesight. GOD WE NEED YOU NOW! ❤🌏
Heartbreaking to watch. I'm hoping they plan to get the addicts some help. Something for sure needs done. The overcrowding of jails and underfunded law enforcement needs addressed as well. Wow. Such a beautiful city going through a tough trial right now. Prayers sent your way!🙏❤
There needs to be help for these folks, but not sure if decriminalizing all drugs would be the best way to go either. Can’t let this run rampant on the streets. Not sure what the correct words are, so won’t call it arresting them, but some how they need to detain individuals and force them into a help program. Also need to prosecute to the fullest extent anyone known to be a dealer.
It’s gonna be hard. The state’s programming is a joke already and almost nothing has been done to fix the programming issues prior to making things devastatingly worse with decriminalization. Drug addicts from all over the nation are flocking here.
@@DougBishop for sure. Not an easy task by any means. Needs to be attacked at a federal level not just individual states or cities. One of the other comments talked about Portugal. I don’t have any details on that but will be looking into it. Knowing it would be a long time before anything country wide is done here. But the only way to attack the problem is giving the help to those who are addicted without putting giving them a conviction or prison sentence that will leave a permanent mark on their name. Keep the dealers behind bars and not allow them out so quickly to go right back into business. From the knowledge I’ve read up on, the dealers aren’t also addicts. Need to have the dealers to be fearful of what happens when they get caught. Sad situation all around, and I sympathize for those who have gotten caught up into this demon. Prayers their is eventually a program to help them.
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They wanted lawlessness, they got it. Looks to me like the problem is trying to sort itself out. I feel bad for emergency services tho, I see this causing mental health issues in their ranks.
You are right about EMS. EMS is already depleted and under staffed. Prayers to them and their families.
I agree my heart breaks for emergency services. What a disgrace and look I know the city/state/government isn’t doing their part but these people are making decisions that aren’t helping in anyway and trashing the town leaving dope where kids can get it-i can’t even with this and it’s happening all over this country. What happened to us!
@@selketskiss56 That's exactly how I feel. Fk em', let em kill themselves. IDGAF. 🤬🤬
@@selketskiss56they are ems they care about all lives. They don't pick and choose who they help. Many of these drugs are very harmful, the government doesn't care about the people. It's all about money and power! They are ruin all our communities!
I think its a step towards the opposite of lawlessness, since now L.E can free up all the wasted man hours on petty personal use arrests and spend that solving actual crimes not just some homeless person who wants to make thier shiitty existence a little easier to bare by getting high....leave em to it....there's more important things!
Well, if they follow through and do what I believe it was what Portugal did, they decriminalized all drugs, and then put all the funding put into fighting drugs that way, into programs to actually help addicts, and get to the root problems of drug abuse, and it worked far beyond expectations. But it must be done the right way. Otherwise, it's all for naught. The root causes of addiction must be addressed, otherwise, it will never end.
Very well said.
@@DougBishop thank you. I'm a survivor of trauma and abuse. And in my younger years, I did my fair share of self medicating for those reasons. Fortunately, I'm a bit mentally stronger mentally and didn't go permanently down that route to help. But, I see a lot of that in active addiction. And when people get clean, then have relapses, becuse they don't address the root causes. In my humble opinion.
Exactly! Enacting such will require some help. Nothing seems to be a criminal act in Portland anymore. Rioting, fires. Currently they are attempting to clean up the streets that they quite literally are paying people to live on! I can go across the border form Idaho, claim I am homeless, jobless, hungry ect and walk out w food stamps, gas vouchers, medical coverage and a $1000 housing allowance. The fact there isn't any housing is not a problem, foodstamps and vouchers are exchanged for actually currency. No wonder half the state wants to become part of Idaho. Lol
And where good mental health help is absolutely key, and not just medication, it needs to be therapy as well.
Beautiful, when you say it like that 👏👏👏
It’s freaking disgusting what’s happened to that city! I lived in Oregon for quite a while, I consider it home. But now, I’m infuriated!
Oregon is still wonderful, but like anywhere else avoid the big cities as they attract democrats who cant survive outside of the big city.
I'm a native Oregonian. I saw what was happening to my beautiful city, where I was raised, back in 1998. We left there in June of 1998 and won't be back. Best decision I ever made for my family.
I live about 20 miles west of Portland and the drug problems and homelessness is completely out of control.
My boyfriend's 31 year old daughter is strung out on fentanyl. He brought her home just over a year ago from Albuquerque where she made the stupid choice to try it at least 3 years ago. He wanted to get her here to "save" her. Unfortunately the first thing she did was steal money from me, sneak off to a homeless camp too close for comfort and immediately found her drug of choice. I don't think her dad understood how evil and addicting this drug is. In my opinion, I think he should have gotten her in a rehabilitation center for 24/7 care under a doctor's care along with proper therapy.
She has not wanted to quit and said she doesn't want to because she likes it too much.
Having her live here was too much for me. Drug addicts steal and lie and do whatever they can to get a fix. She's done very bad things and has hurt many people. I even smelled the odor of her using in this house more than once. It caused problems for her dad and myself because of her stealing from me, more than once and then a homeless guy showed up at our front door because she told him where we live. That was very unsettling and made me feel unsafe.
I don't like to have to hide my purse or worry about her stealing or smoking fentanyl in our home.
Because she discovered that she can't live here anymore thinking her lifestyle is somehow supposed to be ok while she chooses to live the junky culture & do anything she wants here, instead, she's decided to live outside in a homeless camp where she can have unlimited access to this drug despite the fact that she actually overdosed and died. She wasn't revived until a full ambulance ride to the hospital and finally in the emergency room. That didn't stop her. It is so sad and I do fear for her and worry a lot. But she has to make the choice to quit trying to kill herself again. I worry and hope her dad will not have to identify her body in the morgue one day and the longer she uses, the bigger the chance that she will.
Oregon is enabling the homeless camps and drug problems and also, making our state a sanctuary state is like an oxymoron because the only ones that these so-called leaders are doing is causing everyone else who works hard, pay taxes and trying to feel safe in our homes, neighborhoods, places of business, not feel so safe because the crimes that this culture brings here. It's everywhere now. Not just Portland but now into the suburbs and near peoples' private homes. I live in a small university town and less than a mile away, in a wooded area there's a lot of people trashing the natural areas of property backed up to homes and the homeowners live in fear and have had to warn them of the consequences if they step foot onto their properties. I see clean up crews a couple times a month and also police cars there at least once a week., ( I don't think they can do anything at all, and the burdens on the tax payers), to kick them out and bring in dumpsters and crews to clean up after them. But they all go right back and do it all again.
I want out of Oregon. The State where I was born and raised. Maybe they should pay attention to how Oklahoma handles this kind of problem bcz I think they've got a good solution.
This is only the beginning. We just dont know what's next. This is horrible for all first responders
Sad. Some drugs do need regulations.
Definitely!
@Doug Bishop: thank you so much for making and posting this video. Well done! And thank you for all you do with AWP! You are an inspiration and a kind and thoughtful man.
You can't decriminalize without first setting up supportive programs, ensuring detox, rehab/treatment beds on demand is in place and COVID ready with enough spaces. You also need Supervised Consumption Spaces, but because it's not Federally approved, no-one will open one officially for fear of arrest and being closed down. If you have enough of these places, people will use inside and have access to services. Here in Seattle, we passed it 5 years ago and still waiting for 2. In Seattle, we've had a number of camp fires started by humans. In the winter, there tend to be more tent fires as people use hand sanitizer in candle holders to stay warm, but the fire gets really high and burns the tent. I had heard that Portland was bad. I hope that things improve for everyone soon.
Exactly well said 👏
It's amazing the only capital wording is. The Brainwashing on that's NEVER been isolated.only by the msm. Doctors have said the same. But hey
Oh the Libtard bureaucrats in Oregon, Washington, California, government have been giving out free needles, condoms, abortions and encouraging youth to try sex and drugs as early as possible for a decade or two now. They take all power and elements of discipline away from parents, insist on and force parents to raise children "Their way" then feign surprise when populations are destabilized. Seems like the systems they were interested in got all the funding necessary. The actually intelligent humans knew what all this pandering to the simple minded and liberals (Oops I said Simple Minded twice) would lead to. No surprises for the Libtard Leadership or conservatives. Only difference is the DNC wanted this crap. The higher the crime rate, and homelessness is the happier the Libtard Left is, their plan is definitely working.
If you need medical access to use your drug then they shouldn't be using it. We don't need a safe place for people to OD.
What a shame, I'm very disappointed in our Mayor and city council for allowing these people to disgrace and destroy the beautiful city I grew up in.
I've lived here for 50yrs and have never seen it this bad and it's just going to get worse if nothing is done.
These people need help!
I feel like everyone just turns a blind eye to the problem. I'm guilty of it.
I don't like to think that this is going to be the way it is from now on. It's very sad 😥. I wish I had the answers, but back to our local government, do your jobs and help these people!
Thanks, I needed to get off my chest.
First you say they are disgraceful. Then you say they need help. Which is it? These were ppl just like us til the government stepped in and started killing America. These ppl are dealing with it the only way they can. Help solve the problem, not be part of the problem.
It's sad.. Nobody growing up decides that they wanna be a drug addict when they grow up.. I'm grateful for a little over 10 years in sobriety! Addiction sucks for the addicts as well as all that love and care about them!! My heart hurts for those still sick and suffering! YOU ARE WORTHY!!
So sad Portland was a place i wanted to visit someday to scared to do it now. Thanks for sharing Doug.
You can still come to Portland there's nothing to be scared of the only people you should be afraid of is the cops they are corrupt they can only get the innocent and then picking shoes what they want to get to arrest otherwise Portland's pretty cool it really it's a lawless City I have seen a lot Portland's going to hell in a handbasket
Try Eugene - a nicer city. I lived there more than 10 years. Of course it is liberal due to the University of Oregon being located there. But it is NOTHING like Antifa in Portland.
No thanks!
I really hope that voters changed leaders of these are we areas. What is needed is tough and compassionate leaders.
2 years later and some politicians are realizing the horrible mistake they made. Problem is it takes months for the system to collapse and years to rebuild. Especially when you have advertised to all drug users to come to your state because you won’t get arrested.
I think that the voters need to stand up and vote these people out of office if they really want to see change in their state. I am currently following the groups of counties in Oregon that are trying to leave the state and join Idaho because the residents of those counties are sick and tired of two ultra liberal cities (Portland and Eugene) forcing policies on the rest of the state that nobody else wants. In a perfect world I would LOVE to see those counties become part of Idaho because not only would the state of Oregon lose the tax base from those people but they would also lose electoral votes since it is based on population!
No wonder why all my new neighbors are from Oregon. They wanted to get the hell away from that!
Redbone. Loving the music.
It is really heart breaking that the leadership cares so little for their citizens. If I lived there I would move, especially if I had children to raise. Laws protect people from themselves. VOTE THEM OUT! Thanks for your hard work on AWP!
Portland. So sad, it's everywhere. The town I live in used to be a clean little town. Now I see creepers walking down my street. My neighbors along with myself watch out for each other, and holler at these creepers, they run off. Sometimes I've taken pictures of these creatures, just in case.
Doug, why are there so many small but raging fires? I love seeing you on AWP and especially appreciate when you explain towing techniques and details. You're a great teacher.
Arsonists.
Have been missing you Doug. So glad to see you and praying you are doing well. Blessings young man. 🙏❤️🤗
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Oh wow… is this serious?! Why on gods earth allow all drugs to be legal?!! I mean I know I live in the Uk and our laws are very different but this is just asking for absolute chaos!!! 😳😳
I'm 64, born and raised in N.E. Portland, worked as a city cop there 35 years. Thank God I left to small town Arizona 4 years ago. Lots of us saw this coming. Breaks my heart to see what insanity now rules. No city Government, demoralized Police and assholes doing whatever they want because they are insane or want insanity. Sadly I won't go back, used to be a wonderful town. Great video though, someone has to get the word out.
What a shame, I'm very disappointed in our Mayor and city council for allowing these people to disgrace and destroy the beautiful city I grew up in.
I've lived here for 50yrs and have never seen it this bad and it's just going to get worse if nothing is done.
These people need help!
I feel like everyone just turns a blind eye to the problem. I'm guilty of it.
I don't like to think that this is going to be the way it is from now on. It's very sad 😥. I wish I had the answers, but back to our local government, do your jobs and help these people!
Thanks, I needed to get off my chest.
You should know then that just locking people up for a gram of dope won't change anything....sending them to treatment hopefully will. I got in trouble...stupid mistake and my county offered a jail defer program....I went to treatment....it literally changed my life....
@@awrench99 yes, my daughter did the same thing and she is a badass on the loose in Town now. Unfortunately I lost my 30 year old son to the lifestyle there. so glad you took advantage of the program and got out. God bless you and keep it up!
@@vince1638 im sorry for both situations regarding your children. Yes of course its not for everyone but I believe it can make a dent if done correctly. On an off note I actually just moved to az a month ago myself :)
@@awrench99 Wow thats crazy! were in Lake Havasu City and love it here. Its hot but dry, like a microwave! I have 1 daughter (they are twins) who is still in her addiction visiting me for a week Thursday. She is a sweetheart and has never stole from me in her life. Haven't spent more than a few hours with her in years. Im praying for a nice visit but am prepared for disappointment, as all parents of addicts must be. I appreciate your comments, God Bless You :)
If we don't do something it's going to get worse. Mental health addiction and homelessness are huge problems in America. I don't have the answers but am willing to help with a solution that works. Please there has got to be some ideas out there that make things better. I don't think that people want to have to live this way. I don't think they know how to break the cycle they're in. It breaks my heart to see people with so little hope. We all need to put ourselves in their position and maybe all of us can help change the future of so many people living in these conditions.
I wonder what would happen if the police were re-funded and supported.
I could not watch the whole thing. I felt sick to my stomach and am thankful that it's not me in one of those scenes. 😭
Oh God no. The USA is being demolished one state at a time.
Portland has been doing every bit of marketing it possibly can to represent itself as a Hip, Liberal city. The government also thought it'd be great to institute the more Enlightened, or European model of viewing drug addictions as a mental health crisis- which it no doubt is, HOWEVER... what The State of Oregon hasn't done first is what those European countries Already Have... which is to have a public freely Educated en masse above the K-12 level, and a public who is, for the most part, already anti-drug in mode and thought.
The American System has romanticized drug use, paraphernalia, etc. It's not an anti-drug culture, but one that celebrates it. Not only this, America doesn't have The Infrastructure that the European countries have where there's virtually no shortage of drug counselors for their population. Here in America, resources for mental health are pretty much non-existent! For that reason alone, if not for the other reasons already stated, Oregon ISN'T prepared to have adopted such a policy like this... AND, if anything, it demonstrates how Inept the leadership is here.
Very well said. I agree with everything you wrote. European countries that were and are successful with these sort of policies should have been modeled prior to implementing this. I just hope somehow things get better. Very skeptical though. Thank you for watching.
@@DougBishop I appreciate what you do to expose these issues. Found out about you through AWP. I was homeless in Portland approx. 2013 for about 6 months in the fall/winter season. The streets were much different back then. I just made it a goal to travel solo and get a job, not hang out with any of those drug people. Resources at that time were basically thus: approx. $200 food stamps, no hot meals, which means you can go through that money fast at gas stations if you don't have a fridge to put stuff in, no cheap loose/raw ingredients to stock up in pantries to assemble future meals. So with that money going fast, it also makes sense to subsidize using food banks, which are led by good community members. They have a few places where you can get a dress shirt, take a shower and get laundry done for free (after standing in line for 4 hours lol), and they can provide an address to give to employers. I showed up for a telemarketing interview and this young gal who was probably making $12/hr. at the time, even though I explained to her I already had previous telemarketing experience and led the sales board at the previous company, she took one look at homeless me and said, "well, we have to take care of ourselves". I was a bit dirty and smelled bad, but instead of telling her, "you dummy, I'd like to see you in this situation." I just explained nothing and left. There's an interesting stigma against "the homeless". For some people like Jared from AWP, it put a fire in him and motivated the heck out of him to start making something of his life. At one point he was eating pizza from trash cans and sneaking into stairwells to sleep... an upgrade from the bushes! For me, it was a time in my life where I just didn't want to participate in life or keep this- what I considered- Failing System or society to perpetuate itself. After a while, I realized being homeless wasn't what it appeared like at first: Freedom. After a while you realize that being homeless can be harder than having a day job... except, after all that work, you don't get a safe, warm place to sleep, or a shower.
So there are people who are out there right now getting comfortable in those RV's shooting heroin on the side of the roads, who have no desire to get out of that "life-style".... death style, rather. And then you have people where the total sense of Nothingness, Emptiness, Isolation just turns you into Something Else. It changes you Forever.
There are stories from India of initiates who undergo sleeping in burial grounds, who wear the ashes of the dead, who sleep in the cold getting sick for years uttering mantras. And then something happens... they have this sort of sudden realization of what it is to suffer and just what it means, they get out of the burial grounds they go to college, they become doctors and start hospitals.
This is an extreme/esoteric example, but like a lightswitch, something just turns on all the sudden; the entire person.
Me, I went from nothing to approx. 70k/yr CDL A truck driver. Within 6 years after being on the street with not a cent to my name, and I'd of probably done greater things sooner if I had more support, or... A Clue. But I think the thing that helped me the most was realizing I had to do it on my own, no support, no clue. Just learn first hand. Directly. So what I learnt living on the streets in just 6 months Forever changed me and I wouldn't change it for the world, nor would I wish what I went through on anyone.
So my relationship with "the homeless" is a bit complicated, because I want to help them. But because of not having any help I was FORCED to help myself. And that's what changed Everything, from then on. So if I were to give a person on the street a dollar or 20, I feel like I would be disadvantaging them- by making them feel "it's Okay to keep putting my hand out because Someone Else will do it for me"... thus, I see it as, I will not help them by "helping" them, I will just be delaying the precious moment where they have the same precious realization I did.
So I think this matter of "the homeless" and homelessness itself is a real sociological issue, but unfortunately- on top of this- it's often complicated these days by drug use, crime, arson... and everything else that comes with it... where it becomes, all the sudden, a political issue, a socio-economic one, a police issue, etc. Etc.
Sorry for the long rant. Unfortunately, society is a bit f*cked. Our species tends to Entropy, when it should- in my personal Utopia- glorify respect for our fellows through a comraderie of Shared Liberty and Patriotism... and not in a sense that it has to exist because we've been indoctrinated to accept it, but because we realize it may be our best shot at Furthering our society and thus, our species as a whole.
And this is not even to open the can of worms as to the arguments for Isolationism (like the U.S. was prior to WW2) or Globalization... this is a nod to the laws that are becoming changed in each country to reflect each other, so at some point, Nation-States may be more easily dissolved into each other.
But yes, I argue that the very issue of homelessness itself, our perception of the homeless, how the homeless interact even; says so much of A Société, but not only that, plays into the politics of Humanity Itself, Our Entire World :)
Sad what is happening to our 1st rate country. We are falling into despair because of liberal agendas.
Liberalism brought to you by Californians who moved up in the 80's due to housing prices in California. I know, I lived in Oregon from by birth until I was 40 and the Californians starting moving to Oregon - I moved out to get away from what the Californians were doing to Oregon. Their first goal was to take over the land and properties (develop) the Oregon Coast. Remember Gov. McCall, your Republican governor in the 1980s who said he wanted to put a 10' chain link fence around Oregon to keep the Californians out? Too bad he couldn't. Californians californicated Oregon and look what the result is.
Californians moved out of California but brought their mindset and politics with them. It is right now happening the same in Texas, Florida and Idaho. Boise, Idaho now has median housing prices almost 10 times the annual wage there. Californians brought their money from selling their expensive homes when they sold in California to Boise and home prices have been driven sky high - literally. Idahoans are quite upset at the Californias - since, as they say, it has forced young Boise families who lived there and wanted to buy homes there, to move away because these young families cannot afford to compete with Californians for homes in their own hometown (where their parents and families live).
What would u suggest, all I hear from the right are conspiracy theories and hate for the lgbtq+ community, while the Republicans give major tax cuts to their donors and squeeze more money out of the middle and lower class in America. Republicans only care for kids in ur belly wen they come out ur on ur own, no school programmes, health care, or any support for the kids. They cut all that out but let's give more money to the corporations and fund wars all over the world while American kids go to bed hungry. It's not a Liberal thing it's ur system is corrupt, corporations buy ur politicians and the Politicians spew identity politics at its voters, get u all angry over stupid shit like gender while they get rich and vote they way they were paid to, while u all are none the wiser and follow their lead......ur country is fucked and full of corruption and hate. The rest of the world are now wise to the fake dream u sold us "America the greatest country in the world!, come here and get the Americanss dream the beacon on a hill !!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 that's a lie and a joke! And we all realise it now
I’m from the SF Bay Area, it’s horrible, they have ruined many beautiful places
That is so sad
Just give them to Auntifa and hope they are dealt with.
I have always been amazed about how little people really know about addiction and treatment. Until we as a society recognize that addiction is a medical metal health problem, we are going to continue this path. The War on Drugs has been America's longest war and will continue and be a disaster. The Industrial Prison Complex Industry will continue and has been fed well by the War on Drugs. War is the largest business in the US and I served in the military. So I guess I'm part of the problem and not part of the solution. The Germans thought they had the Final Solution and we all know how that went. We have created a middle class of state dependent warriors that make their living from the War on Drugs. Law enforcement, Prison Systems and government agencies that hire and suck the taxpayers money and still no solution. We get what we deserve.
Given that our southern border is basically wide open and unprotected, Mexican cartels are pumping fentanyl laced drugs into the country freely. Instead of securing the border, the agents are getting pulled to help process and babysit the kids belonging to 400,000+ "asylum-seekers" monthly. Since Biden announced everyone can come, they are! Since this administration will do nothing (other than cover it up by flying people in the middle of the night to other cities across the country), the drugs are crossing that border day and night, and dispersing into our communities. It's out of control! Something has to give....
That is so sad. I lived in Portland 27 years ago and I remember them trying to legalize marijuana while I was riding my bike in the riverfront park. My friends that live nearby have been saying what a problem the homeless camps are. I don't know why the government puts up with it.
Hun you be very careful making these videos. I cried watching this. I will not be visiting Portland.
I am careful. Fortunately I did not film this particular one and was not in any danger. I would definitely suggest waiting until Portland cleans up. Portland is actually a beautiful city and a super fun place when it is not in shambles.
I agree, Stay bloody Safe Doug, I wanna see you alive on AWP 🤪❣ you are now in my eyes, a new Angel with Purpose take care 👊
@@DougBishop It uses to be one of the safest places to live. My brother lived up there for 7 years and it was beautiful and trendy. Now it's like the movie "Escape from LA" It will be great again, just going to take time.
Until people stop voting Democrat nothing will change. Brown will destroy Oregon just like Cali.
Your video is as good, if not better, than any documentary I have ever viewed. VERY powerful. I was unaware of Portland 's degradation caused by drug "availability. "
Anyone remember when Oregon was almost never mentioned in the news .?
Who will want to raise their children in lawless states?
Absolutely ridiculous, what the hell? 😳
Lived by Mt Hood for 17 years. Portland was a s..t show then. But I never thought it would get this bad.
Makes me want to cry 😢. Growing up in Oregon yes there were problems, but it just keeps getting worse and worse, and it is because of those that cater to the idea of if it feels good do it. A lot of people believe it is not hurting anyone else but themselves, however yes, yes it does. I don't believe all of those people have mental disabilities unless you count drug induced mental issues. Something needs to be done, but I don't believe making the drugs more accessible is the right thing to do.
It's stupid. The powers that be will regret the day they allowed lawlessness to run amok.
No.. they figure to live in gated communities far away from the craziness or on islands China provides.
Very sad to see I can’t imagine 😢🇦🇺🤿
Wow! Jaw dropping footage, Doug! Awesome Job! Quite a reveal
the problem was already there, legalizing it only brings it out into the light.
somebody that desires to stay away from drugs will never take it, even if it is legal.
Heartbreaking.
As an Oregonian since 1975 I was amazed the voters approved the legalization of possession of all drugs, even the worst ones such as heroin, meth, oxycodone and cocaine.
I lived in Oregon (near Roseburg and then Eugene) for decades until I moved away in 1987. I have not been back since. Californians started moving to Oregon in early 80's due to increasing housing prices in California. They brought their politics with them and destroyed Oregon. Gov. McCall advocated putting a 10 ft. chain link fence on Oregon's border to keep the Californians out. Too bad he couldn't. We loved the Oregon at that time - we enjoyed white water rafting after we would work all day - loved the coast - Yachats, Newport, Cape Perpetua - beautiful areas. On weekends we would drive up the McKenzie or Willamette and shoot the white water. Sadly we moved out of state for better jobs and have not been back... and won't go back. I was shocked when Oregon voted in euthanasia. Now they are openly trying to destroy the lives of their citizens with drugs. But what do you expect when they support and protect Antifa, suppress conservative speech and do not support their law enforcement.
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You mean Tom McCall, don't you?
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You're referring to the big cities of Portland, Salem, Eugene and now sadly Bend Oregon. Everywhere else it's primarily conservative. But the main population centers are mostly liberal.
Curious where you live now that you find so heavenly.
I live in Oregon City, a mostly conservative city .... so far.
@@chuckster3629 Yes, my mistake. Thank you. I will fix it. Memory failed me on that point after 35 years. 🙂
@@chuckster3629 Agreed. I lived in Roseburg and Eugene. My husband got his undergraduate degree 2 years at Oregon State and 2 years at U of O. Bend was a mecca for the retired but I don't know if it is still that or have other groups found Bend attractive also? I never said that where I live now I find heavenly. Every area has its drawbacks and well as good points. However, what is important to our family is better here than it is in Oregon. We moved east of the Mississippi River.
I'm glad I live where I do...you visited my beautiful city while looking for Tammy ❤️ we have our fair share of drug problems and crime, but nothing like what's in this video.
So when this first hit I immediately thought what a horrible idea. Then years went by and I got a tooth ache. One of my wisdom teeth got pissed off. I would not be given any pain killers despite having never been accused or convicted of a drug crime of any kind. Then one day it hit me, just get my pain meds off the streets. It is not my first choice, but I refuse to live in pain because a small fringe of society abuses medication. So the war on drugs in the form of prescription pain killers also managed to find a way to still help people in enough pain to seek a solution on the streets. Whoever decided this was the best way forward in health care thinks like a 3rd world simpleton.
Redbone song Was perfect for this video
Im from Australia and didnt know this existed in the US to this extent, its not common knowledge and its not ever really shown on mainstream media, seems its being swept under the rug.
so this was three years ago, has it got better? or worse or just the same?
That is so sad to think people really live like that.
Ted Wheeler’s beloved Portland.
I am enjoying your youtube channel and that of AWP. You are so important to AWP - I really enjoy watching you guys. Take care and stay safe in 2022. I am in central Alabama, watching your videos while we are under tornado watch on New Years Day. We've had several tornados drop within the adjacent county in the last few days. I lived in Oregon 25 years, but moved when the politics from California took over Oregon. So sorry Portland has become such a mess. My mother lived in Portland for years and we would go up there for the Portland Rose Parade. But no more. Take care of you and yours and stay safe.
I live in a quiet village in the UK and this is so soul destroying for these people and others living amongst all the mayhem, how can this be a way to solve anything, they need help , it’s devastating
Same here Sandra, I’m in a little village in the north of England and Portland looks like a post apocalyptic nightmare. It’s so sad to watch people do this to themselves because they don’t see a way out.
Exactly, I have never seen such behaviour or heard of this in the UK. I am sure there are pockets of it, but we are beyond sheltered here in the UK. I too live in a quiet village in Scotland.
I live in a small town just a few hrs west of Seattle and a lot of us here are asking the same question. In America, our “ leaders” turn a blind eye to this type of living. In fact they promote it by letting criminals be criminals with ZERO consequences & decriminalizing drugs all while allowing them to use it for “personal use”. Here in Washington state we have what’s called a needle exchange. A place that passes out free and clean needles.. some even provide them with a “safe place” to do drug of choice while someone is sitting right there to help you and call paramedics in case you overdose. These same people are allowed to pitch a tent, build a “house” out of plywood right downtown in front of businesses, under over passes, next to freeways, & in parks. Parents here can’t even take their children to the park in some places in fear of all the dirty used needles you see laying around all over. If it doesn’t effect our governor, Oregons governor, Californias governor, or any other governor in states that look like this while they live in a safe gated community, live in a big beautiful home, have their own private security for protection, private planes, no worry about how they’re gonna feed their family or if they have enough gas in the car to make it to work and back than they don’t care what policy or laws they put in place that will only effect us.
@@ItssKrea It is a total affront to America as a whole!! I can't even begin to imagine how many accidents happen due to this, and the fear that people must have in their community. I was not thinking as far as children, but yes - wow, how awful for children to see this. No one should have to grow up in this war zone. thinking this is normal. First responders/fire/police must be round the bend with the chaos. now we know what legalising drugs looks like. HORROR!!
@@ItssKrea that is so bad, it seems like they’re just helping them along on a road to self destruction so they’re no longer a problem when they do overdose, that’s never going to get better, and along with drugs there’s crime when they’re desperate , I’m just shocked at how people walk past like its the norm, that in itself shows how bad it is, I can’t imagine how anyone can raise kids and not be filled with fear every time they walk out the door, I don’t blame the people, I blame the system and lack of support , I feel for all the people trying to live a normal life
All it will do is line the government’s pockets and they won’t stop the black market, if they think legalising it putting the prices up is going to stop people they are wrong, it hopefully will help some people ❤️ I hope they have plenty of councillors available for those that need it, it’s hard to believe in this day and age that so many people are living on the streets like this
Doug you take care and stay safe, if possible please don’t go back there 💞
Almost looks like LA. What is being done? I am in MD. On another note, we missed you on the goodbye to Dan show. Hang in there, you are one of the good ones.
OH my. I have two thoughts on this. this is a thinking question. Hard thing to get on board with or be completely outraged.
Very Sad !!! Thank you Doug for sharing this video !
It’s so sad to see a town disenagrate (sp?) before your eyes. Just trying to figure out what can be done to hep is so hard to figure out.
One has to use the power of the ballot box. Vote, support good candidates or run for office yourself. That's the only legal way.
I use to live in Washington State.. I loved to visit Portland and Seattle.. but now I wont go there.. They have both become like San Fran.. Disgusting, dangerous and out of control.. If those cities wont clean up their mess people like me are just going to avoid them at all cost..
Thinning of the herd? I don't know, I just go back to that old saying you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink. Although it is extremely sad, you need to remember there are people out there that WANT to be helped. I personally have a birth mother that I have had to finally just say enough is enough to.
We wanted to move to Astoria OR but the governor decided to lower the educational standards and then she allows every drug to be available. That’s a NO. About the only thing I do in OR is go hiking periodically since I live in east WA. Good luck Doug, I’m glad I found you!
What was once beautiful is no more. So sad.
That was so bleakly funny. When you put that upbeat song along with the madness. Cracked me up. I can say this because I’m a sober amphetamine addict -gone from certifiably barking mad to just mildly insane on a good day
WOW😮 I put you & your family into my prayer list for protection and prosperity a while back….🤔🤔🤔guess I better ask God to triple the angels and hedge of protection if this is going on where you live! It’s just so sad the contributions to society drugs rob us of!
You Mr. Bishop are soooo important to not just those of us that are fans but to all the lives you have & have yet to help, stay safe! 💜💛💙❤️
Personally I don’t think it a smart move. They better stick up on Narcan. Are prisons over crowded is this their way of eliminating this problem?
Our jails and prisons are way over crowded. Our law enforcement is under funded & under staffed as well.
Makes me sad. Born, raised, 5th generation Oregonian and one of those homeless druggies in Portland is my niece whom I haven't seen in 4 years. We moved to Montana 3 years ago because of all the issues in Oregon.
It's only going to get worse.
So sad to see this. Thank you for showing the world reality.
That is just nasty to see . Ive seen alot of bad bad things an this tops it all .. @DOUG BISHOP you are do a good thing showing this to the world and the balls you have my friend to get up close and personal in all this is amazing .. great job bro for real
james
Psalms 9:17
“The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.”
Now that is it legalized?Who do you know that it has improved their lives? Cornelius,Oregon....Homeless population has increased alot more...Sad.
Forest Grove is awful too.
@@deborahrobertson2340 yeah ....i moved from there...
the world as we know it is failing brother. nothing will ever be alright. we need change in this world or we will lose everything. i can understand people do drugs because it takes them to a place where they can be free from the problems in their lives, but we also need to help them to. instead of ignoring them. they are humans to. they shouldn't be put down or treated any differently. give them the help and support they deserve! love ya brother be safe doug! your pal jimmy carson.
Wow.. it’s sad to see what drugs make people capable of doing! And all the rest that comes with it.
Yes it will definitely clean up the state and hopefully put people back on track.
I agree. It's the old Order from Chaos. Pray for Portland. I have friends and family there, it's just not the same.
I believe you will find that it is most often homelessness, mental health issues, abuse and judgemental people who lead to these sorts of scenes. Yes many will be on drugs but if you were in their shoes you likely would be too.
It looks like something from a movie from a 3rd world country. We are becoming so desensitized to the state of our country. If we keep waiting for someone else to fix the issues we will just continue to deterate and destroy ourselves.
Tears n heartache seeing such tragic moments... 😰💔😓
Let Oregon burn. Lived there for 38 years. Shame on you Governor and Mayor. I'm outta here!
✌🏽 Please don't ever come back for a vacation or anything. You're the type of person who complains about everything probably and then sits on his ass and does nothing to contribute. good riddance have fun in Texas
This is extremely sad!! 😭 I never knew how bad it is there . 😲
That video just ripped me apart 😢
So terribly sad to see this!
So sad. Looks like LA. Love the song.
So sad to see so many peoples lives corrupted with drugs and the city destroyed looked like it used to be a beautiful city once upon a time sending my love from across the pond 🇬🇧
Portland is an amazingly beautiful city. Just right now is out of control. Hoping things get better.
@@DougBishop I do too so sad x
That is just sad and looks very unsafe to be in
Looks like part from some zombie movie.. Full chaos! I've will be scared even going through city..
Are they on the fault line? Maybe they disappear with Californicate😂
What a shame! Where’s the self pride and dignity gone? This really breaks my heart to see our society come to this!
Time to leave Oregon
Mmm not good,maybe one but not all,crazy
Doctors are getting prison sentencing for their crimes. Drug dealers are filling a void but also will go to prison. We can't allow self harm in any fashion.
Worked in Portugal
Yep. Portland didn't follow All the protocols the successful countries have.
Great great video off a world gone broken. Such a catastrophic mess.. all caused by us. People. What a sad unaccountable race we are. I sit on a rainy day - broken - trying to stay clean.
Phone in hand - charger in wall….
I temember stepping into my wardrobe just screaming from all within me to try to find myself again.
Most of those broken people don’t have those fine fine luxuries I’m using to have so much as a second to try to find themselves. Excruciatingly beyond sad… then the tv skips to a commercial of starving children with no eyesight.
GOD WE NEED YOU NOW! ❤🌏
Heartbreaking to watch. I'm hoping they plan to get the addicts some help. Something for sure needs done. The overcrowding of jails and underfunded law enforcement needs addressed as well. Wow. Such a beautiful city going through a tough trial right now. Prayers sent your way!🙏❤
Drug addiction is a mental health issue and should be treated as such. Prohibition never works.
There needs to be help for these folks, but not sure if decriminalizing all drugs would be the best way to go either. Can’t let this run rampant on the streets. Not sure what the correct words are, so won’t call it arresting them, but some how they need to detain individuals and force them into a help program.
Also need to prosecute to the fullest extent anyone known to be a dealer.
It’s gonna be hard. The state’s programming is a joke already and almost nothing has been done to fix the programming issues prior to making things devastatingly worse with decriminalization. Drug addicts from all over the nation are flocking here.
@@DougBishop for sure. Not an easy task by any means. Needs to be attacked at a federal level not just individual states or cities.
One of the other comments talked about Portugal. I don’t have any details on that but will be looking into it. Knowing it would be a long time before anything country wide is done here.
But the only way to attack the problem is giving the help to those who are addicted without putting giving them a conviction or prison sentence that will leave a permanent mark on their name.
Keep the dealers behind bars and not allow them out so quickly to go right back into business. From the knowledge I’ve read up on, the dealers aren’t also addicts. Need to have the dealers to be fearful of what happens when they get caught.
Sad situation all around, and I sympathize for those who have gotten caught up into this demon. Prayers their is eventually a program to help them.
Is this intended to be another form of genocide????? God help you all.
Sadly, it looks like a 3rd world country. It will get a lot worse with the decriminalization of drugs.
I support whatever will make things better. I am not sure either, but we will definitely see.
@@DougBishop Good luck. I hope things get better soon.
Sad to see a former beautiful city, turned into this.
Pure stupidity. Why is this ok? Why did they make harmful things legal? Pure stupidity. Hope this isn't real.
Unfortunately it's real. Gov. Brown is a worthless POS 💩