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Speaker 1: Podcast pod cast podcast. I'm Robert Evans. This is Behind

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Speaker 1: the Bastards, a podcast where we talk about people who

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Speaker 1: are bad um with people who aren't bad. And today

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Speaker 1: the person who isn't bad to talk about the people

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Speaker 1: who are bad is Tuck Woodstock. Tuck, how are you

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Speaker 1: doing today? I'm okay. Thank you so much for having

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Speaker 1: me with such a generous introduction. Not bad, I'll take it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm going for it. Uh, Tuck. You are a Portland

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Speaker 1: area journalist and podcaster and someone who I got tear

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Speaker 1: gass with a bunch during you know, the whole year. Really,

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Speaker 1: how are you doing today, Tuck? I'm okay, I'm alright.

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Speaker 1: The sun is shining, which helps I think that there's

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Speaker 1: this been, this weird gift where yes, we do have

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Speaker 1: to just cower inside because there is a pandemic, but

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Speaker 1: we're getting like a little bit of extra so on

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Speaker 1: out of it. So I'm just trying to take it

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Speaker 1: where I can get it, you know, Yeah, take it

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Speaker 1: where you can get it is a good motto for um.

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Speaker 1: I just also feel like I didn't get the sun

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Speaker 1: in the summer because we were both working like nine

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Speaker 1: in Stark in the summer, and so I was like, well,

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Speaker 1: I was just out the entire night all summer, so

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Speaker 1: I get some sun now. So you would wake up

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Speaker 1: about an hour and a half before dusk and go

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Speaker 1: out to get to your guest again. Yeah, the number

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Speaker 1: of times that we all went to bed like as

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Speaker 1: some like iyemasks, you know, it was ridiculous. Yeah, it was,

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Speaker 1: in other words, a very healthy summer. And it was

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Speaker 1: a healthy summer. It was a healthy summer because of

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Speaker 1: our friends in the Portland Police Bureau are are good buddies. Um.

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Speaker 1: And you know, when you're talking about the Portland Police Bureau,

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Speaker 1: the Portland Police Union and oddly enough, one of the

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Speaker 1: most important unions of not the most important police unions

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Speaker 1: in the entire country. Do you know much about the

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Speaker 1: p p A. You know, I know what I've heard

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Speaker 1: while I was standing outside their union building and people

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Speaker 1: and that's about as much as I know. I know,

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Speaker 1: like the guy in charge doesn't love the protests, which

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Speaker 1: you know, shocking personally, but no, I don't know that much.

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Speaker 1: I'm excited to learn more about the people who's building

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Speaker 1: uh well, that's what we're gonna do today. And because

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Speaker 1: We're focusing on Portland today, but the p p A

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Speaker 1: is a subject that I think everyone, at least in

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Speaker 1: the United States should have some interest in because, as

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Speaker 1: as it turns out, they kind of the Portland Police

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Speaker 1: was the first successful police union in the country. So

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Speaker 1: police unions in general so we can contextualize why they're

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Speaker 1: a problem. Um So, A two thousand, eighteen Oxford University

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Speaker 1: and positively correlated with police violence and abuse towards citizens.

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Speaker 1: This includes protections like contractual guarantees that officers found engaging

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Speaker 1: in misconduct should not be publicly shamed, that they shouldn't

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Speaker 1: be questioned within two days of a shooting or another

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Speaker 1: act of fatal violence, and that they shouldn't be publicly

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Speaker 1: identified after assaulting citizens. Shockingly, this causes police to hurt

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Speaker 1: more people. Um, really surprising stuff. That's why I love unions, right,

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Speaker 1: It's like all the cool worker protections, Like you get

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Speaker 1: I remember when the steel Workers union went on strike

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Speaker 1: Two thousand nineteen studied by the University of Chicago found

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Speaker 1: killing innocent people. Nationwide, they succeed about of the time,

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Speaker 1: able to fire cops. Uh. This body investigated four hundred

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Speaker 1: more than misconduct complaints. Twelve of those resulted in punishment. Again,

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Speaker 1: a single specific police union, the Portland Police Association. Now

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Speaker 1: the Portland Police were not always unionized, but they were

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Speaker 1: seven people, which it seems like a good number for

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Speaker 1: and in nineteen o eight Portland became the first city

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Speaker 1: that's good. More woman cops. Yeah. The Bureau was also

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Speaker 1: to bring me briefly to the tale of Portland's Red Squad.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever heard of the Red Squad? Now, I'm

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Speaker 1: beating the ship out of communists, well, leftists in general,

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Speaker 1: wanted to know which of their employees were considering joining

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Speaker 1: Oregonian reported on in the thirties. Yeah, well they have

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Speaker 1: Where they where they threatened by the unemployment or the

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Speaker 1: milk for children? That's what I really need to know

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Speaker 1: Throughout the decade, it's undercover agents and provocateurs made desperate

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Speaker 1: efforts to suppressive, destabilize radical political groups and union organizing,

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Speaker 1: including pressuring Lincoln High School students, artists, and anti fascist organizers.

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Speaker 1: And again he's writing this in two thousands, so before

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Speaker 1: And there's a reason Portland police were sympathetic to fascism

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Speaker 1: wild about this new state of affairs. Enter John Hayes.

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Speaker 1: He was a young, fresh faced and popular officer whose

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Speaker 1: previous job had been as a pinball machine repairman. Shockingly,

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Speaker 1: pinball machine repairman did not get paid well. So at

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Speaker 1: age twenty two, John had created a labor union for

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Speaker 1: pinball mechanics UH. In pursuit of this goal, he'd met

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Speaker 1: members of the Multnoma County Central Labor Committee, and they

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Speaker 1: helped him learn how to organize a bunch of pinball

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Speaker 1: guys into a union that could bargain for better wages.

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Speaker 1: I'm so mad that this is going to get bad soon,

436
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Speaker 1: because I'm obsessed with pinball union, and I would wear

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Speaker 1: their T shirts all yeah, the pinball Union. Unfortunately, the

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Speaker 1: pinball Union is irrevocably tainted by their relationship to the

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Speaker 1: Portland Police Association. It's really tragic. Yeah. So nationally, there'd

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Speaker 1: been a couple of attempts at police unions by the forties,

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Speaker 1: but none of them had worked out. The Boston police

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Speaker 1: had unionized in the nineteen teens and then gone on

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Speaker 1: strike for better wages, which had resulted in a mass

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Speaker 1: riot through the streets of Boston a citizens looted everything

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Speaker 1: that could possibly find. President Woodrow Wilson had called the

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Speaker 1: police strike a crime against civilization and told the American

447
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Speaker 1: Federation of Labor president there is no right to strike

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Speaker 1: against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time. Every

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Speaker 1: single striking Boston officer was fired and the union died

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Speaker 1: a painful death, and the AFL revoked all police union

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Speaker 1: charters after this point. So cops had tried to unionize

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Speaker 1: and it had gone very badly for them, and there

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Speaker 1: were not police unions when the John Hayes is like,

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Speaker 1: what if I unionize the Portland police. So they're not

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Speaker 1: the first, but they are the first that will succeed

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Speaker 1: at unionizing. Um. So obviously this was a dangerous thing

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Speaker 1: to try to do, and a lot of people felt

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Speaker 1: that the police should not be able to organize under

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Speaker 1: any circumstances. Those people would, of course, proved to be right.

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Speaker 1: Officer Hayes reached out to ask me the American Federation

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Speaker 1: of State, County and Municipal Employees, which is the largest

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Speaker 1: trade union for public employees in the company, and he

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Speaker 1: was like, you know that thing that ended really badly

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Speaker 1: last time, what if we do that again? That's good stuff.

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Speaker 1: It's just so interesting to me because I have a

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Speaker 1: friend who organized, you know, helped organize the union. Asks

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Speaker 1: me in Portland, and there's there's literally like a no

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Speaker 1: cop asked me movement right to get the And I

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Speaker 1: had no idea. And I don't know if they knew

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Speaker 1: either that this actually happened, like in Portland itself, you know,

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Speaker 1: so I did know this until it was actually Alan Kessler,

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Speaker 1: who's a local lawyer that like informed us of this book.

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Speaker 1: And I did not know the Portland I just thought

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Speaker 1: they were another cop union, but they are like the

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Speaker 1: cop union. Yeah, so that's good. Explain something, yeah, so

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Speaker 1: asked me agreed to back the Portland Police as long

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Speaker 1: as they included a clause in their charter that they

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Speaker 1: could never strike under any circumstances. And Hayes said, of course,

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Speaker 1: of course will never strike. We would never strike, that

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Speaker 1: will never happen. We I promised the Portland Police will

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Speaker 1: never go on strike. And then you know asked me,

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Speaker 1: was like, okay, and they made a deal. And to

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Speaker 1: make a long boring story short, Hayes gradually succeeded in

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Speaker 1: signing most of his fellow cops up for the union.

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Speaker 1: Under the chiefs nos Uh. The Portland Police Association went

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Speaker 1: public in April of nineteen forty two, and the initial

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Speaker 1: reaction was less than positive. The Oregonian on April sixteenth

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Speaker 1: wrote an editorial about what a bad idea it would

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Speaker 1: be to allow cops to unionize. The editorial writer noted

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Speaker 1: that if police unionized, no matter what, those cops would

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Speaker 1: always be suspected of quote greater loyalty to union than

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Speaker 1: to official duty. I always want to congratulate the Oregonian

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Speaker 1: editorial board for getting something right at some point in

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Speaker 1: its long storied history. It doesn't last long, don't worry.

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Speaker 1: This was the one time I'm sure they fired that

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Speaker 1: guy immediately. Um so, Yeah, public suspicion was not enough

497
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Speaker 1: to stop the Portland Police Association from getting off the ground.

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Speaker 1: On an April ninety two, the p p A held

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Speaker 1: its first official meeting and voted for its first president.

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Speaker 1: Now Hayes, as the founder of the union, had acted

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Speaker 1: as interim president during this early period, but his fellow

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Speaker 1: officers felt that he was too young and inexperienced to

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Speaker 1: represent them at the negotiating table. Instead, they picked a

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Speaker 1: literal Nazi. They're like, let's do ageism and fascism all

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Speaker 1: in one. Sure did the Nazis have a union? Because

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Speaker 1: if not, I guess it could have been worse. They

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Speaker 1: had the National Socialist German Workers Party. But yeah, uh

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Speaker 1: uh so yeah. Otto Miners was the first president of

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Speaker 1: the p p A, and he's described this way in

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Speaker 1: the p p a's Weird Biography of Itself, which is

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Speaker 1: very positive quote. He was an outspoken man, some would

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Speaker 1: say loudmouth, whose accent revealed his German upbringing. Earlier, he

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Speaker 1: had been an active member of the German American Booned,

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Speaker 1: though for self preservation in a nation at war with Germany.

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Speaker 1: He later played down his interest in the land of

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Speaker 1: his ancestors. Now that's that's fund to me, because they

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Speaker 1: say that like, well, he was a German Man who

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Speaker 1: remembered the Boond because he was interested in his German ancestry.

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Speaker 1: That's not what the German American Boond was. The German

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Speaker 1: American Boond was a literal Nazi organization in the United

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Speaker 1: States that was funded by the Nazi Party in Germany.

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Speaker 1: The Boond waved swatsticka banners at mass rallies. They gave

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Speaker 1: the fascist salute and moss to giant portraits of Hitler.

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Speaker 1: Their initial funding, again came from the Nazi government. Fritz Koon,

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Speaker 1: the leader of the Boond, summed up the group's ideology

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Speaker 1: in a speech he gave at Madison Square Garden in

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Speaker 1: nineteen thirty nine. If you ask what we are actively

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Speaker 1: fighting for under our charter. First, a socially just white,

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Speaker 1: gentile ruled United States. Second, gentile controlled labor unions free

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Speaker 1: from Jewish Moscow directed dominance. So this is meeting faces

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Speaker 1: that you doesn't work for podcasting. And I'm just like

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Speaker 1: the first president of the Portland Police Association, a literal Nazi.

533
00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:33,120
Speaker 1: It's good stuff. Boond rallies featured banners with catchy slogans

534
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:36,960
Speaker 1: like stop Jewish Domination of Christian Americans and wake up America,

535
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Speaker 1: smash Jewish communist. Oh my god, God, it's good stuff.

536
00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:48,360
Speaker 1: It's not subtle, no, no, and you have to love that.

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00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:52,080
Speaker 1: The Portland Police Association's biography of itself just says like

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Speaker 1: he was interested in his German heritage. No, dude was

539
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Speaker 1: a Nazi. The branding of that is just yeah, it's great,

540
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:08,840
Speaker 1: good stuff. It's rude to Germany because it conflates the two.

541
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Speaker 1: It's like, if you have German heritage, it just means

542
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Speaker 1: you love like to be a Nazi. You know. It's like,

543
00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:17,800
Speaker 1: we can separate those two things. We can separate them. Yeah,

544
00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:20,440
Speaker 1: the p PA can't. I can I enjoy the aspects

545
00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:24,360
Speaker 1: of German heritage that are, for example, creative sausages. Yeah

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00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:28,760
Speaker 1: later osen fine, Yeah, no one has any issues with

547
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:32,080
Speaker 1: that part now. Um, yeah, so it would be fair

548
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:34,720
Speaker 1: to call miners and Nazi. Now. There were some German

549
00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:36,960
Speaker 1: Americans who joined the boond not really knowing what it was,

550
00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:39,080
Speaker 1: but those folks tended to leave pretty quickly once they

551
00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:41,240
Speaker 1: saw the swastika banners and heard all the talk about

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00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:44,440
Speaker 1: the Jews. Miners remained in the boond until it was

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00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:47,520
Speaker 1: forcibly disbanded after the outbreak of US involvement in World

554
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Speaker 1: War Two, which would you know, suggest he was pretty

555
00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:52,560
Speaker 1: fucking committed. And now he was the first president of

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Speaker 1: the Portland Police Association. Good stuff, good guy. So the

557
00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:01,040
Speaker 1: p p as first big victory came that October when

558
00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:03,440
Speaker 1: it succeeded in getting its officers time and a half

559
00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:06,520
Speaker 1: pay for working on Halloween. It also got officers overtime

560
00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:09,360
Speaker 1: pay for working security at ball games, which they'd previously

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Speaker 1: done on a volunteer basis. I'm not sure if this

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Speaker 1: was the first time police anywhere in the nation got

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Speaker 1: overtime pay. It might have been, but it was the

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Speaker 1: first time that a police union succeeded in getting a

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Speaker 1: blanket overtime agreement out of a city in the United States.

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Speaker 1: This is like the start of police overtime. Um. Thanks, yeah,

567
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Speaker 1: and now it is like bankrupting the city of Portland. Yeah,

568
00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:35,480
Speaker 1: it's so good. So President Miners the Nazi learned in

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Speaker 1: nineteen forty three that some of his officers were still

570
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Speaker 1: working at ball games for free as actual volunteers out

571
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Speaker 1: of I don't know, some sense of civic responsibility or something,

572
00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:48,600
Speaker 1: and discussed ball games are nice. He was disgusted by this.

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Speaker 1: He told the union that these men were playing into

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Speaker 1: the hands of the opposition, and I have to credit

575
00:30:53,960 --> 00:31:01,200
Speaker 1: him for not saying the Jews there. Um. He actually

576
00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:03,960
Speaker 1: read the badge numbers of these men allowed to the union,

577
00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:06,320
Speaker 1: so that like people would know who were the I

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00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:10,040
Speaker 1: guess that the traders within their midst um, which they

579
00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:12,440
Speaker 1: could really mad at us when we read their badge numbers.

580
00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:16,720
Speaker 1: But that's a great point. Nobody's allowed to bad numbers anymore. Yeah,

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00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:19,400
Speaker 1: uh yeah. It was kind of a dip move from

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00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:21,479
Speaker 1: the president of the union, but you know, in fairness

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00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 1: to him, ninety three was kind of a rough year

584
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:29,440
Speaker 1: for Nazis, so maybe Miners was just in a mood. Now,

585
00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:31,960
Speaker 1: at this time, the police were not the only force

586
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,640
Speaker 1: providing law and order type services to the city of Portland.

587
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:38,280
Speaker 1: There was also the Veterans Guard and Patrol. Now, this

588
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 1: was a group of World War One vets who had

589
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:43,680
Speaker 1: formed to defend their homeland while younger men fought fascism abroad.

590
00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:47,480
Speaker 1: These guys worked for free, protecting their neighborhoods and guarding

591
00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:50,240
Speaker 1: their community with skills honed in deadly battle. Now, some

592
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:52,600
Speaker 1: people might consider this kind of a win win because

593
00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:55,040
Speaker 1: it didn't cost anyone anything, and these guys clearly knew

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Speaker 1: what they were doing. I'm sure they were as racist

595
00:31:56,960 --> 00:32:00,280
Speaker 1: as everyone else back then, but I haven't heard anything

596
00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:02,080
Speaker 1: that would suggest they were worse than the police, and

597
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:06,280
Speaker 1: they were probably broadly speaking more competent. Uh. Yeah. But

598
00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:09,280
Speaker 1: Miners hated this because again, the veterans guard were not

599
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:11,880
Speaker 1: getting paid, and he was all about getting more money

600
00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 1: for cops as pickets, pistols and politics notes. In the

601
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:17,880
Speaker 1: view of the police union, the veteran guard and patrol

602
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:20,480
Speaker 1: simply made it more difficult for professional police to get

603
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:23,400
Speaker 1: their demands met by the city. After all, many police

604
00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:26,480
Speaker 1: services were being performed for free by these patriotic veterans.

605
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 1: We gotta shut that shut down now. The police union

606
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:34,920
Speaker 1: succeeded in pushing down any attempt to form like a

607
00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:37,560
Speaker 1: civic safety patrol not made up of a tiny cadra

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00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:40,280
Speaker 1: of unaccountable men paid increasingly vast sums of money to

609
00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:44,280
Speaker 1: do violence. That task accomplished in five Miners set himself

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00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 1: to the job of fighting another scourge to civic order Hollywood.

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00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:50,920
Speaker 1: See the end of World War Two was the start

612
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:54,280
Speaker 1: of a gangster revolution in Hollywood films. The gangster air

613
00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:56,440
Speaker 1: of the twenties and thirties was distant enough that people

614
00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:58,720
Speaker 1: could make good movies about it now, and police around

615
00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:01,320
Speaker 1: the country were horrified to see their mortal enemies turned

616
00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:04,280
Speaker 1: into heroes on the silver screen. Now, at this point,

617
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:07,440
Speaker 1: unionization was still very rare for police officers. It was

618
00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:10,120
Speaker 1: not just Portland's, but they were one of the few.

619
00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:13,200
Speaker 1: So the cause of opposing gangster movies on behalf of

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00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:16,880
Speaker 1: law men everywhere fell upon the Portland Police Association. The

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Speaker 1: Portland Police publicized the release of a resolution stating that

622
00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 1: the United States and foreign nations were quote to be

623
00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:26,240
Speaker 1: flooded with a series of gangster motion pictures. Now, the

624
00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:29,200
Speaker 1: PPA was concerned with the influence of such pictures on

625
00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:33,520
Speaker 1: the impressionable alliscent mind, and argued that Hollywood producers and

626
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:36,040
Speaker 1: again got a credit miners for not just saying Jews

627
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:39,720
Speaker 1: there were responsible for any harms that this caused. Such

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00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:42,360
Speaker 1: films can be motivated only by greed and can feel

629
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:45,920
Speaker 1: no concern for the welfare of our country or its youth. Wait,

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00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:48,280
Speaker 1: I'm obsessed with them being like this is motivated by greed,

631
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:50,200
Speaker 1: when like they are the ones that are like everyone

632
00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:53,200
Speaker 1: has to get paid all the time, no volunteering at

633
00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:57,680
Speaker 1: the baseball game. Yeah, it is funny that he accuses

634
00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:01,560
Speaker 1: them of being greedy. Ye. Now, I don't want to

635
00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:03,880
Speaker 1: lean too much on the Nazi stuff, but it is

636
00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:07,160
Speaker 1: telling that one of the things this literal Nazi president

637
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:09,399
Speaker 1: of the p p A makes one of his first

638
00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:13,560
Speaker 1: priorities is to attack Hollywood producers. Um a little bit

639
00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:17,560
Speaker 1: of a tell, little bit of a tell. Uh Yeah. Anyway,

640
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Speaker 1: the resolution concluded by proposing an investigation of Hollywood producers

641
00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:26,120
Speaker 1: by the House un American Activities Committee, which absolutely did

642
00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:29,400
Speaker 1: happen and culminated in the second Red Square. Now a

643
00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:31,000
Speaker 1: lot went into that. I'm not going to give the

644
00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 1: pp A credit for all of it, but they were

645
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:35,840
Speaker 1: a force in sparking the second red scare. You know

646
00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:39,239
Speaker 1: that's cool. Okay, let's scare the first said square. I'm

647
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:42,839
Speaker 1: like the red square, the red Okay, cool. Now that's

648
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:49,080
Speaker 1: just like a communist who wears a suit. Well, anyway,

649
00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:52,680
Speaker 1: good job for doing the red scare. Yeah, thanks guys,

650
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:56,120
Speaker 1: thanks for starting the ball ball rolling on ruining the

651
00:34:56,200 --> 00:34:58,920
Speaker 1: lives of people in Hollywood who happened to think that

652
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:04,760
Speaker 1: socialism might be a ideam ahead of the curve Trailblazers.

653
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:08,680
Speaker 1: That's where the basketball team gets its name, Yeah Yeah,

654
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:12,560
Speaker 1: from the p PA's hatred of people having opinions. Now,

655
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:15,680
Speaker 1: in Portland Police Association terms, most of the late nineteen

656
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:18,640
Speaker 1: forties and nineteen fifties were a set of labor rights improvements.

657
00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:21,280
Speaker 1: Police won a forty hour work week, they want expanded

658
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:23,800
Speaker 1: sick days, and they want better and more comfortable uniforms

659
00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:26,240
Speaker 1: that they didn't have to pay for. This is mostly

660
00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:28,800
Speaker 1: stuff that, if you assume police should exist, is not

661
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:32,719
Speaker 1: really that problematic, pretty basic, like workers rights. The p

662
00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:35,560
Speaker 1: p A pooled its bargaining power with the firefighters union

663
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:37,880
Speaker 1: to get a proper pension system set up, and actually

664
00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:41,600
Speaker 1: the firefighters were critical in allowing the PPA to survive

665
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:44,200
Speaker 1: because in the early days, again there was a lot

666
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:47,080
Speaker 1: of resistance and they weren't recognized for years by the

667
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:49,640
Speaker 1: city of Portland itself. It was the firefighters who first

668
00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:53,120
Speaker 1: gave them legitimacy by saying like, hey, will we will

669
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:55,399
Speaker 1: bargain with you, and that way they'll have to deal

670
00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:57,920
Speaker 1: with you, because they have to deal with firefighters. The

671
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:00,520
Speaker 1: p PA's biography says something about this that I think

672
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:02,920
Speaker 1: is very telling a quote. The thinking was that the

673
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:05,640
Speaker 1: firefighters had a better chance of winning the voters favor.

674
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:08,600
Speaker 1: They were, after all, the good guys in the public's view,

675
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:11,200
Speaker 1: the ones who saved people instead of bossing them around.

676
00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:17,600
Speaker 1: It's fun that cops recognize that, Yes, we do like

677
00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:20,719
Speaker 1: firefighters better than you because their only job is to

678
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:24,399
Speaker 1: save people. Yeah, they're help They're actually helping people. Their

679
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:31,560
Speaker 1: job is undebatably necessary, whereas you are cops. So there

680
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:34,640
Speaker 1: was initially consensus among union leadership that the pp A

681
00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:38,560
Speaker 1: should not donate to directly or back directly political candidates,

682
00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:41,040
Speaker 1: that it would be wrong for them to get political.

683
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:43,960
Speaker 1: Getting involved in partisan politics would be unseemly for a

684
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:45,440
Speaker 1: group of men and women who are supposed to be

685
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:49,040
Speaker 1: civil servants protecting all citizens. Uh. This would last until

686
00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:50,959
Speaker 1: the seventies, but we'll talk about that story a little

687
00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:52,600
Speaker 1: bit later. For right now, we need to turn away

688
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:54,839
Speaker 1: from pickets, pistols, and politics, which has been the source

689
00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:57,160
Speaker 1: for everything but the stuff about the Red Squad and

690
00:36:57,200 --> 00:37:01,600
Speaker 1: the boond and turned to a slightly better source because shockingly,

691
00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:04,520
Speaker 1: for a book written at the behest of a police union, Pickets, Pistols,

692
00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:07,040
Speaker 1: and Politics, says almost nothing about race with relations in

693
00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:10,920
Speaker 1: Portland or police behavior towards black Portlanders. Um. It does

694
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:15,000
Speaker 1: occasionally mentioned that, like civil rights groups had problems with

695
00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:18,040
Speaker 1: Portland police, but it will make statements like black activists

696
00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:20,200
Speaker 1: believe that police showed a racial bias. And that's kind

697
00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:21,880
Speaker 1: of the most that you'll get out of out of

698
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:24,640
Speaker 1: the book. Uh So, for this next bit of the episode,

699
00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:27,040
Speaker 1: I'm going to turn to a dissertation written by Catherine

700
00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:30,880
Speaker 1: Nelson at Portland State University. Its title is on the

701
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:34,120
Speaker 1: Murder of Ricky Johnson, the Portland Police Bureau, Deadly Force,

702
00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:36,600
Speaker 1: and the Struggle for civil rights in Oregon. And it's

703
00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:39,680
Speaker 1: a really good read um like a very I would

704
00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:43,080
Speaker 1: I would recommend it above the union's propaganda book, um,

705
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:47,080
Speaker 1: although they both have some interesting stuff in them. So legally,

706
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:50,720
Speaker 1: Oregon didn't have segregation in the nineteen forties or fifties

707
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:53,239
Speaker 1: or sixties, right, like we were not one of the

708
00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:56,520
Speaker 1: if you like google like maps of states that had segregation,

709
00:37:56,600 --> 00:38:00,320
Speaker 1: Oregan's right there with California as like, uh, discriminatetion for

710
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:03,680
Speaker 1: race or color forbidden by law. State. But that that's

711
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:07,839
Speaker 1: not really true. Um, that's just like there wasn't legal segregation.

712
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:11,919
Speaker 1: It did absolutely happen. As historian Elizabeth McLagan notes, black

713
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:15,040
Speaker 1: people in Portland were regularly refused admission to restaurants, theaters,

714
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 1: and hotels. Medical care was difficult to obtain. Unions barred

715
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:21,320
Speaker 1: blacks from membership, employment practices confined them to certain jobs,

716
00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:25,000
Speaker 1: and integrated housing was resisted. According to a long time

717
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:27,879
Speaker 1: black resident, Oregon was a clan state, a hell whole.

718
00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 1: It's not it was not a not nice I think

719
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:34,840
Speaker 1: is a good way to sum that up. Henry Stevenson

720
00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:36,640
Speaker 1: was a black World War Two veteran who moved to

721
00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:39,880
Speaker 1: Portland in nineteen sixty. Here's how he described his experience.

722
00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:42,520
Speaker 1: Living in Portland at that time was almost like living

723
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:45,360
Speaker 1: in Alabama. Black folks had at rough the system, especially

724
00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:47,239
Speaker 1: the police had a whole lot of feat on black

725
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:49,279
Speaker 1: people's necks. It was nothing for a cop to just

726
00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:52,080
Speaker 1: shoot a brother. When this did happen, there was no consequences.

727
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 1: The cops weren't afraid of being reprimanded in any way. Well,

728
00:38:56,600 --> 00:39:01,920
Speaker 1: I hasn't changed, no, not really. The Portland police did

729
00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:05,480
Speaker 1: have a disciplinary board, but officer reprimands were complaint driven,

730
00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:07,799
Speaker 1: and the Portland Police didn't listen to complaints if they

731
00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:11,000
Speaker 1: weren't made by white people. The traditionally black neighborhood of

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00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:14,000
Speaker 1: Albina received way more policing than any other neighborhood in

733
00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:17,879
Speaker 1: the city. And again that hasn't really changed. Um, I'm

734
00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:23,440
Speaker 1: here right now, I can tell you it has not changed. Yeah. Uh,

735
00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:26,919
Speaker 1: this is a bad time to go into an ad break.

736
00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:30,040
Speaker 1: You're going to choose now, this is what you're choosing.

737
00:39:32,719 --> 00:39:47,319
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not even gonna capitalism. We've returned. So yeah,

738
00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:53,160
Speaker 1: Portland police, Uh, pretty bad on on race relations and

739
00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:57,120
Speaker 1: and such. Lee Anderson, a black Portlander, commented in that

740
00:39:57,480 --> 00:39:59,520
Speaker 1: we are surrounded by a prejudice that you do not

741
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:02,080
Speaker 1: find in our neighboring states. Forty five years later, in

742
00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:05,440
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty seven, a young black man commented to a

743
00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:08,520
Speaker 1: local newspaper, where else but Albaiana do cops hang around

744
00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:12,840
Speaker 1: streets and parks all day like plantation overseers, Which is

745
00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:18,400
Speaker 1: pretty strong statement, yep. In her dissertation for PSU, Katherine

746
00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:21,960
Speaker 1: Nelson sites sociologist Robert Staples, who studied the Portland Police

747
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:24,240
Speaker 1: Bureau and noted that throughout its history it had acted

748
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 1: as a quote colonial force that acted as agents to

749
00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:31,080
Speaker 1: enforce the status quo and protect the property of the

750
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:35,759
Speaker 1: colonizers who live outside black communities. Hell yeah, yeah, yep,

751
00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:37,759
Speaker 1: not hell yeah. That it's good. It's just like a

752
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:44,480
Speaker 1: well phrased state. Hell yeah for the accuracy for you know,

753
00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:49,200
Speaker 1: colonialism yea yeah, not hell yet a colonialism um. The

754
00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:52,040
Speaker 1: bureau quote the bureau focused their f and this is

755
00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:54,960
Speaker 1: from Kathleen's paper. The bureau focus their efforts on protecting

756
00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:57,880
Speaker 1: property largely owned by whites within the black community and

757
00:40:58,040 --> 00:41:00,839
Speaker 1: serving the white community while providing few benefits and little

758
00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:04,279
Speaker 1: protection to Portland's black community. The PPB rarely protected the

759
00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:07,600
Speaker 1: rights of Portland's black citizens, yet they routinely tolerated vigilante

760
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:12,480
Speaker 1: um union protection, organized crime, and police brutality within the bureau. Now,

761
00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:14,640
Speaker 1: this is another thing that the p p AS book

762
00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:17,200
Speaker 1: tends to leave out. It does note a few occasions

763
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:19,760
Speaker 1: in which the police looked the other way while unions

764
00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:21,800
Speaker 1: they were outlied with committed crimes, but it does not

765
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:25,200
Speaker 1: go into detail about how extensive this relationship was. So

766
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:29,160
Speaker 1: we're going to go into detail about some of that stuff. Um. Yeah,

767
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:37,279
Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's bad stuff. Yeah. Um, But first

768
00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:39,719
Speaker 1: we're going to go into detail about something else. Um.

769
00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:44,160
Speaker 1: In ve a black man named Irvin Jones was shot

770
00:41:44,239 --> 00:41:46,000
Speaker 1: through the window of his house by a Portland police

771
00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:48,480
Speaker 1: officer who assumed the victim was someone he had a warrant.

772
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:51,120
Speaker 1: For the fact that he suspected someone might have a

773
00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:53,279
Speaker 1: warrant out and then immediately opened fire should tell you

774
00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:56,240
Speaker 1: something about the bureau's use of force procedures during this time.

775
00:41:56,719 --> 00:41:59,040
Speaker 1: A coroner's inquest was held and the jury decided that

776
00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:03,080
Speaker 1: officers involved were not guilty and no one was charged. Um. Again,

777
00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:05,640
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about this happening a lot. Uh.

778
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:09,200
Speaker 1: This is kind of at least the first case of

779
00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:12,160
Speaker 1: this I was able to find. Now, throughout the nineteen forties,

780
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:14,719
Speaker 1: Portland's black community increased from two thousand to more than

781
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:18,600
Speaker 1: twenty two people. Um. And this again happened right around

782
00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:21,520
Speaker 1: the same time the nineteen forties that the PPB created

783
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:24,480
Speaker 1: the us is first successful police union. So as Portland's

784
00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:28,680
Speaker 1: black population increased, Portland's police force got more protections and

785
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:32,680
Speaker 1: became basically immune to being criticized by or at least

786
00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:36,160
Speaker 1: two being punished by the city government. UM. During the

787
00:42:36,239 --> 00:42:39,640
Speaker 1: nineteen fifties, UH, African Americans in Portland achieved a number

788
00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:42,239
Speaker 1: of civil rights victories, including the Public Accommodation Act of

789
00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:46,480
Speaker 1: nineteen fifty three, which illegalized public discrimination. UH. And at

790
00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:49,520
Speaker 1: the same time, the PPB further their reputation as you know,

791
00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:52,399
Speaker 1: UM police force that was willing to turn a blind

792
00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:54,840
Speaker 1: idle organized crime. By the nineteen sixties, the p p

793
00:42:54,960 --> 00:42:57,920
Speaker 1: B had implemented a tough on crime mentality UH and

794
00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:00,799
Speaker 1: this meant that they were mainly targeting Portland's black neighborhoods

795
00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:04,399
Speaker 1: as areas of quote miscreant behavior. By adopting a tough

796
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:06,800
Speaker 1: on crime stance, the PPB saw a rise in police

797
00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:09,320
Speaker 1: related shootings, and for those living in Portland's black community,

798
00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:11,480
Speaker 1: it seemed as if young men were getting shot more

799
00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:14,480
Speaker 1: often than you know, basically any other group of people.

800
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:17,400
Speaker 1: UH and the statistics kind of bear this out now.

801
00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:20,720
Speaker 1: At around the same time, enterprising Portland police officers developed

802
00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:23,160
Speaker 1: what was called the payoff system, which is what it

803
00:43:23,239 --> 00:43:26,440
Speaker 1: sounds like. Racketeers would run out licensed bars, brothels, and

804
00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:29,360
Speaker 1: casinos that all bribed officers for the right to exist.

805
00:43:29,719 --> 00:43:32,960
Speaker 1: Since any complaints about in potential disciplinary actions had to

806
00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:35,000
Speaker 1: go through the p p A, no officers were punished

807
00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:37,759
Speaker 1: for taking bribes to allow crime. The local government was

808
00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:40,200
Speaker 1: fine with this as long as all the illegal activity

809
00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:42,920
Speaker 1: was kept confined to North Portland's a k a. Albina.

810
00:43:43,160 --> 00:43:46,080
Speaker 1: So you see what's happening here. The Portland police are

811
00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:50,120
Speaker 1: allowing criminals and gangs and whatnot, often organized by the Teamsters,

812
00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:52,120
Speaker 1: which is a union that supported them, and they supported

813
00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:55,120
Speaker 1: the Teamsters running criminal rackets as long as those criminal

814
00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:59,359
Speaker 1: enterprises were run in Albina um. And at the same

815
00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:03,040
Speaker 1: time they were increasing their patrols of Albinia and justifying

816
00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:07,000
Speaker 1: it by saying, this is where all the crime happens. Yeah,

817
00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:11,279
Speaker 1: it's um pretty dark when you look at it like that.

818
00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:17,120
Speaker 1: Don't worry. They put salt and straws in Albina now,

819
00:44:17,239 --> 00:44:23,719
Speaker 1: so it's all gentrified, thank god. So up until ninety six,

820
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:26,399
Speaker 1: the PPB had only hired two black officers in its

821
00:44:26,520 --> 00:44:29,680
Speaker 1: entire history. This situation had improved by the nineteen sixties,

822
00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:32,360
Speaker 1: but not by much. About one percent of the forces

823
00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:35,920
Speaker 1: seven twenty officers were black. When people started to notice

824
00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:38,640
Speaker 1: that this was maybe a problem. The police personnel director

825
00:44:38,680 --> 00:44:41,000
Speaker 1: asked Captain Bill Taylor if he could be listed as

826
00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:44,880
Speaker 1: Native American. Taylor had a small fraction of Indigenous ancestry,

827
00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:47,800
Speaker 1: although he did not quite identify as Indigenous. Still, the

828
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:51,080
Speaker 1: PPB made the change to his identity in the paperwork

829
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:53,319
Speaker 1: and started bragging at Portland had hired its first Native

830
00:44:53,320 --> 00:45:00,480
Speaker 1: American police captain. Yes, this is literally like textbook attending

831
00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:04,120
Speaker 1: is um like, it's like just like just exactly what

832
00:45:04,280 --> 00:45:06,640
Speaker 1: every Indigenous person is talking about. What they're talking about

833
00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:12,719
Speaker 1: pretendians is nause It's great. So the whole situation did

834
00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:15,640
Speaker 1: eventually get bad enough that the Federal Bureau of Investigation

835
00:45:15,719 --> 00:45:18,120
Speaker 1: looked into the p p B, and the publicized nature

836
00:45:18,239 --> 00:45:20,480
Speaker 1: of this whole case gave Portland a reputation as a

837
00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:22,800
Speaker 1: city of vice and sin. The men of the p

838
00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:25,680
Speaker 1: p A generally viewed their police chief and appointee as

839
00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:27,560
Speaker 1: the enemy of their ability to milk as much money

840
00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:30,000
Speaker 1: out of the job as possible. Charles Pray was the

841
00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:33,000
Speaker 1: chief from nineteen nineteen fifty one, and he had a

842
00:45:33,080 --> 00:45:36,680
Speaker 1: mandate to clamp down on the outrageous corruption in the bureau. Unfortunately,

843
00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:39,040
Speaker 1: he had no influence over the p p A because

844
00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:41,000
Speaker 1: the chief is not a member of the union, and

845
00:45:41,080 --> 00:45:42,960
Speaker 1: the p p A was kind of the nexus of

846
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:46,560
Speaker 1: police corruption. Pray complained that everybody at the police station

847
00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:49,120
Speaker 1: seemed to know where gambling was conducted, but that no

848
00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:51,600
Speaker 1: one would talk to him. It turns out that even

849
00:45:51,640 --> 00:45:55,040
Speaker 1: cops are too smart to talk to cops. That's so interesting,

850
00:45:56,080 --> 00:45:58,560
Speaker 1: just that dynamic of the police chief being like, what

851
00:45:58,719 --> 00:46:01,560
Speaker 1: if we weren't, oh bad, and then everyone's at the

852
00:46:01,640 --> 00:46:03,680
Speaker 1: union holl being like, We're gonna go gambling and we

853
00:46:03,719 --> 00:46:07,360
Speaker 1: will tell you where it is. Yeah, what if we

854
00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:12,239
Speaker 1: weren't actual criminals while arresting people? And the union was

855
00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:16,280
Speaker 1: not cool with that. In nineteen fifty four, Perennial Bastards

856
00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:19,560
Speaker 1: Pods side character the FBI carried out a massive wire

857
00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:23,160
Speaker 1: tapping operation on Portland's gambling dens, brothels, and illegal bars,

858
00:46:23,239 --> 00:46:25,520
Speaker 1: many of which were operated by teamsters allied with the

859
00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:28,759
Speaker 1: p p A. Their investigation revealed that by nineteen fifty four,

860
00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:31,200
Speaker 1: both the mayor and the police chief, Jim Purcel, were

861
00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:35,320
Speaker 1: actively protecting criminal enterprises. Purcell was indicted for incompetence in

862
00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:38,200
Speaker 1: criminal behavior. A grand jury was convened, and from August

863
00:46:38,280 --> 00:46:40,719
Speaker 1: nineteen fifty six to September of nineteen fifty seven, more

864
00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:43,360
Speaker 1: than a hundred and fifteen indictments were issued against Portland

865
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:52,000
Speaker 1: police officers. Uh, that's good stuff. Wait for what for?

866
00:46:52,239 --> 00:46:55,279
Speaker 1: You know, operating illegal gambling dens and brothels. There was

867
00:46:55,280 --> 00:46:58,239
Speaker 1: a hundred and fifteen of those doing Wow, Okay, at

868
00:46:58,280 --> 00:47:00,800
Speaker 1: least a hundred and fifteen officers that were implicated in

869
00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:03,000
Speaker 1: that sort of behavior. How many officers did they have

870
00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:05,040
Speaker 1: last time I heard there were seven? It's like a

871
00:47:05,120 --> 00:47:09,560
Speaker 1: couple hundred. Like it was such a high percentage wild

872
00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:13,919
Speaker 1: well in the way that the text makes it seem.

873
00:47:14,160 --> 00:47:17,000
Speaker 1: Basically everyone was on the take to one extent or another.

874
00:47:17,120 --> 00:47:19,360
Speaker 1: These were just the ones that the FBI. Like, the

875
00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:22,720
Speaker 1: FBI was not going to indict the entire police bureau.

876
00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:25,920
Speaker 1: They had to pick the most egregious examples. And this

877
00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:27,719
Speaker 1: is the last time the FBI will be the good

878
00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:30,520
Speaker 1: guys in this story, because it turns out they were fine.

879
00:47:31,040 --> 00:47:34,200
Speaker 1: We'll get to that. By the nineteen sixties, Portland's black

880
00:47:34,239 --> 00:47:37,400
Speaker 1: population had decreased to just fifteen thousand. Remember, they hit

881
00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:39,640
Speaker 1: their height at about twenty two thousand people in the

882
00:47:39,719 --> 00:47:44,000
Speaker 1: nineteen forties. Right, So all of this, both the police

883
00:47:44,640 --> 00:47:48,879
Speaker 1: like directly encouraging crime in the black neighborhood and also

884
00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:53,239
Speaker 1: the police massively increasing patrols in Albina um led to

885
00:47:53,480 --> 00:47:56,760
Speaker 1: about a seven thousand person decrease in the black population

886
00:47:56,800 --> 00:48:00,279
Speaker 1: of Portland's, might of whom lived in Albino, which was

887
00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:02,359
Speaker 1: about two and a half square miles at that point

888
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:05,560
Speaker 1: in time. In nineteen sixty eight, Kenneth Gervais released a

889
00:48:05,640 --> 00:48:08,200
Speaker 1: study on the Portland Police Bureau. He interviewed a number

890
00:48:08,239 --> 00:48:10,400
Speaker 1: of Portland police officers during this time and found that

891
00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:15,279
Speaker 1: they believed political radicals, professional criminals, negroes, and civil rights

892
00:48:15,360 --> 00:48:18,600
Speaker 1: groups all ought to be subjected to intense police surveillance.

893
00:48:19,160 --> 00:48:24,439
Speaker 1: Um interesting the groups that he classifies as basically the same.

894
00:48:25,080 --> 00:48:28,919
Speaker 1: Um Yeah. The Red Squad morphed into the Intelligence Unit,

895
00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:31,840
Speaker 1: which mostly spied on black activists like the city's nascent

896
00:48:31,880 --> 00:48:34,719
Speaker 1: Black Panthers chapter and I'm gonna quote from Katherine Nelson here.

897
00:48:35,280 --> 00:48:38,120
Speaker 1: The intelligence units spied on black activists and used the

898
00:48:38,160 --> 00:48:40,719
Speaker 1: gathered information to spread rumors that were meant to spark

899
00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:44,040
Speaker 1: opposition from the community. Police often used a relevant information

900
00:48:44,120 --> 00:48:46,239
Speaker 1: to support their charges, and many of the targets were

901
00:48:46,239 --> 00:48:50,240
Speaker 1: previous victims of police brutality. Police perpetuated a false image

902
00:48:50,239 --> 00:48:52,799
Speaker 1: of what black activists and citizens were advocating for by

903
00:48:52,840 --> 00:48:56,000
Speaker 1: painting them as anti government, radicals or communists. The greater

904
00:48:56,080 --> 00:48:58,680
Speaker 1: community often aided in this surveillance work and would report

905
00:48:58,719 --> 00:49:04,239
Speaker 1: seemingly innocent behavior is potentially malicious activist work. It's all

906
00:49:04,320 --> 00:49:13,880
Speaker 1: different now. In the summer of nineteen sixty seven, a

907
00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:16,319
Speaker 1: group of young black Portlanders through rocks and bottles at

908
00:49:16,360 --> 00:49:19,200
Speaker 1: nearby police officers. This eventually turned into a riot known

909
00:49:19,239 --> 00:49:22,400
Speaker 1: as the Irving Park Riot, where fires were set, windows broken,

910
00:49:22,440 --> 00:49:25,840
Speaker 1: and a local stereo store looted. Not one specific instance

911
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:29,240
Speaker 1: initiated the Irving Park Riot. Instead, black citizens felt frustrated

912
00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:32,919
Speaker 1: with unsolicited police presence in Albina. The Irving Park Riot

913
00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:35,920
Speaker 1: took place during the long hot summer, which witnessed urban

914
00:49:35,960 --> 00:49:39,400
Speaker 1: rebellions in African American neighborhoods in Boston, Chicago, and Portland

915
00:49:39,480 --> 00:49:41,760
Speaker 1: at the same time that a white middle class hippie

916
00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:44,319
Speaker 1: movement enjoyed what they termed the Summer of Love. Often,

917
00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:47,080
Speaker 1: these riots had no instigating factor, which left police and

918
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:50,960
Speaker 1: city officials puzzled. In Milwaukee's black community, heavy police surveillance

919
00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:53,600
Speaker 1: of a school program caused the youth to riot. Milwaukee

920
00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:58,080
Speaker 1: Police Chief John Paulson claimed that a hardcore group of

921
00:49:58,160 --> 00:50:01,759
Speaker 1: young hoodlums was to blame. Again, very different, and we're

922
00:50:01,760 --> 00:50:06,439
Speaker 1: talking about the Milwaukee that's a suburb of Portland, Wisconsin. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

923
00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:11,120
Speaker 1: So the Bureau used the Irving Park. The Portland Police Bereau,

924
00:50:11,160 --> 00:50:13,160
Speaker 1: not the federal one, used the Irving Park riot as

925
00:50:13,160 --> 00:50:16,239
Speaker 1: an excuse to intensify surveillance in Albina. This time they

926
00:50:16,280 --> 00:50:19,160
Speaker 1: were aided by the FBI, who hated illegal gambling and

927
00:50:19,239 --> 00:50:23,520
Speaker 1: prostitution but loved them some disrupting a civil rights movement. Now,

928
00:50:25,760 --> 00:50:29,279
Speaker 1: we talked about comteal Pro FBI director Hoover standing order

929
00:50:29,320 --> 00:50:31,840
Speaker 1: to infiltrate, discredit, and disrupt left wing civil rights and

930
00:50:31,920 --> 00:50:35,360
Speaker 1: civil rights organizations. The FBI sent co intal Pro agents

931
00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:37,920
Speaker 1: to Portland, and they encouraged the PPB to engage in

932
00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:42,520
Speaker 1: factory One sabotage effort involved FBI agents suddenly threatening local

933
00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:45,080
Speaker 1: doctors to stop them from volunteering their time at the

934
00:50:45,120 --> 00:50:50,680
Speaker 1: Portland Black Panthers Free Health critic It's just that kind

935
00:50:50,719 --> 00:50:53,000
Speaker 1: of ship where I'm like how do you do that?

936
00:50:53,120 --> 00:50:55,719
Speaker 1: And you're like, I am the good guy in this scenario,

937
00:50:56,120 --> 00:51:00,239
Speaker 1: preventing healthcare. This is gonna be so popular are in

938
00:51:00,280 --> 00:51:03,120
Speaker 1: the future. Go home to your wife. Would she do today?

939
00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:07,080
Speaker 1: Threaten some doctors? Feeling great they were going to help

940
00:51:07,160 --> 00:51:12,840
Speaker 1: some poor children. Not anymore, they're not not after the

941
00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:18,440
Speaker 1: Bureau got on the case. Just imagining Joe Friday threatening

942
00:51:18,480 --> 00:51:25,600
Speaker 1: a doctor, it's so um yeah. The FBI co Inteal

943
00:51:25,640 --> 00:51:27,759
Speaker 1: pro Unit also got the PPB to lie about Black

944
00:51:27,880 --> 00:51:31,040
Speaker 1: nationalists who were police informants, like pretending people. They actually

945
00:51:31,040 --> 00:51:33,800
Speaker 1: would set up meetings with people who were police informants

946
00:51:33,840 --> 00:51:37,000
Speaker 1: and Black nationalist leaders so that they could then discredit

947
00:51:37,080 --> 00:51:40,319
Speaker 1: them within the community as police informants. At one point,

948
00:51:40,400 --> 00:51:43,279
Speaker 1: they even put out fake information about anti Semitism from

949
00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:47,200
Speaker 1: Portland's Black nationalists to lower their support from the Jewish community,

950
00:51:47,320 --> 00:51:51,720
Speaker 1: who was otherwise very supportive of their causes. Um good stuff.

951
00:51:51,960 --> 00:51:54,200
Speaker 1: While the FBI was forced to disband their co intal

952
00:51:54,280 --> 00:51:57,719
Speaker 1: proteins after nineteen one, the PPB continued to carry out

953
00:51:57,800 --> 00:52:01,040
Speaker 1: similar programs in order to harm black liberal Asian organizations.

954
00:52:01,520 --> 00:52:04,040
Speaker 1: One example of this would be the work of Detective Brown,

955
00:52:04,239 --> 00:52:06,919
Speaker 1: a leading member of the PPBS Red Squad. Brown also

956
00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:09,840
Speaker 1: happened to be the American Legion's top Red hunter, and

957
00:52:09,920 --> 00:52:13,120
Speaker 1: he successfully badgered the school board into denying civil rights

958
00:52:13,200 --> 00:52:17,600
Speaker 1: groups the use of high school auditorians. I mean again,

959
00:52:17,800 --> 00:52:21,239
Speaker 1: like the phrases civil rights. Anyone who's like this is

960
00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:27,239
Speaker 1: objectively bad rights? No, absolutely not. It's fun you say that, Tuck,

961
00:52:27,680 --> 00:52:30,520
Speaker 1: because in the nineteen sixties, another study into the Portland

962
00:52:30,560 --> 00:52:33,520
Speaker 1: Police Bureau noted that six percent of its officers felt

963
00:52:33,560 --> 00:52:36,200
Speaker 1: that the civil rights movement was moving much too fast.

964
00:52:39,320 --> 00:52:41,560
Speaker 1: Can't have too many rights? What will we do? We

965
00:52:41,680 --> 00:52:44,080
Speaker 1: will have anything to police because people will be allowed

966
00:52:44,160 --> 00:52:47,600
Speaker 1: to do things. But who will we shoot a police?

967
00:52:49,040 --> 00:52:52,320
Speaker 1: Don't worry, they figure it out. The study concluded that

968
00:52:52,440 --> 00:52:54,880
Speaker 1: quote the feeling that the public does not respect the

969
00:52:54,960 --> 00:52:57,880
Speaker 1: police officer or holds him in contempt will most certainly

970
00:52:57,920 --> 00:53:01,960
Speaker 1: affect the officer's attitude and behave towards the citizen. Officers,

971
00:53:02,040 --> 00:53:04,920
Speaker 1: the report noted, wanted to emphasize to black people that

972
00:53:05,080 --> 00:53:09,040
Speaker 1: complacent behavior was incredibly important if they wanted to remain safe.

973
00:53:09,360 --> 00:53:14,719
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I hate this. Uh, they didn't have

974
00:53:14,840 --> 00:53:16,680
Speaker 1: masks back then, Like, they don't have much of a

975
00:53:16,760 --> 00:53:19,640
Speaker 1: mask now, but they didn't have any at all back then. Right,

976
00:53:20,080 --> 00:53:23,080
Speaker 1: Oh my god. I just think about and you're talking

977
00:53:23,080 --> 00:53:25,840
Speaker 1: about cointelpro and like spreading rumors about each other, and

978
00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:27,200
Speaker 1: like it's so nice that they don't have to do

979
00:53:27,280 --> 00:53:29,160
Speaker 1: that now because we just have Twitter, you know, like

980
00:53:29,280 --> 00:53:31,319
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, we can just chill, like they will

981
00:53:31,440 --> 00:53:34,680
Speaker 1: just just do it to each other. Yeah, they're very

982
00:53:35,080 --> 00:53:42,680
Speaker 1: very fun people in general. Yeah. So throughout the nineteen sixties,

983
00:53:42,760 --> 00:53:45,160
Speaker 1: the pp A grew in influence, not just in Portland

984
00:53:45,239 --> 00:53:48,080
Speaker 1: but nationwide. They helped found a National Police Union, which

985
00:53:48,120 --> 00:53:50,640
Speaker 1: provided some unity to all the different unions that had

986
00:53:50,680 --> 00:53:52,440
Speaker 1: been spawned by the success of the p p A.

987
00:53:52,840 --> 00:53:55,160
Speaker 1: In nineteen sixty nine, the p p A had voted,

988
00:53:55,160 --> 00:53:57,719
Speaker 1: along with thirty other delegates, that police strikes would remain

989
00:53:57,840 --> 00:54:01,840
Speaker 1: banned under the National Union Charter. When Jualette, Illinois officers

990
00:54:01,880 --> 00:54:04,239
Speaker 1: had gone on strike in nineteen sixty seven, aft ME

991
00:54:04,360 --> 00:54:07,000
Speaker 1: had provoked their charter and the p PA had condemned them.

992
00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:10,440
Speaker 1: But in late nineteen sixty nine, contract negotiations between the

993
00:54:10,480 --> 00:54:12,520
Speaker 1: p PA and the City of Portland broke down. In

994
00:54:12,600 --> 00:54:15,440
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty eight, the Portland City Council finally declared the

995
00:54:15,480 --> 00:54:18,320
Speaker 1: city a public employer and bargaining agent and had voted

996
00:54:18,320 --> 00:54:21,279
Speaker 1: to allow collective bargaining for city employees. The p p

997
00:54:21,440 --> 00:54:25,359
Speaker 1: A UH was officially declared a chartered Police Union UM,

998
00:54:25,480 --> 00:54:28,120
Speaker 1: and again this was like its first official recognition from

999
00:54:28,160 --> 00:54:30,480
Speaker 1: the city. Now. The president at the time was a

1000
00:54:30,480 --> 00:54:33,360
Speaker 1: guy named David Callison UM, and he wound up becoming

1001
00:54:33,400 --> 00:54:35,840
Speaker 1: the first p p A president to sign a Portland

1002
00:54:35,920 --> 00:54:39,200
Speaker 1: Police contract. The p PA sat down to negotiate in

1003
00:54:39,239 --> 00:54:41,440
Speaker 1: the spring of nineteen sixty eight. The city wanted to

1004
00:54:41,560 --> 00:54:43,680
Speaker 1: establish a set of ground rules that all seven of

1005
00:54:43,760 --> 00:54:46,440
Speaker 1: the unions recognized by the city would have to abide by.

1006
00:54:46,920 --> 00:54:49,160
Speaker 1: The p p A complained about this because they didn't

1007
00:54:49,200 --> 00:54:51,480
Speaker 1: think that the rules that bound everyone else should apply

1008
00:54:51,560 --> 00:54:54,759
Speaker 1: to them. Now. They did have some justification for this UH,

1009
00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:57,240
Speaker 1: mainly the fact that they had a no strike clause

1010
00:54:57,320 --> 00:54:59,520
Speaker 1: and other unions were allowed to strike, So if they're

1011
00:54:59,560 --> 00:55:01,600
Speaker 1: not allowed a strike, why should they have to abide

1012
00:55:01,640 --> 00:55:05,160
Speaker 1: by the same conditions as every other union UM Now.

1013
00:55:05,239 --> 00:55:08,239
Speaker 1: In the first round of negotiations, the other six employee groups,

1014
00:55:08,280 --> 00:55:11,480
Speaker 1: including the firefighters union, agreed to new contracts and signed

1015
00:55:11,520 --> 00:55:14,120
Speaker 1: with the city. The Portland Police did not, though this

1016
00:55:14,320 --> 00:55:17,840
Speaker 1: was considered odd since traditionally Portland's firefighters and its police

1017
00:55:17,880 --> 00:55:21,200
Speaker 1: officers had drawn the same base pay. Since the firefighters

1018
00:55:21,320 --> 00:55:23,640
Speaker 1: union had backed the police union and establishing it in

1019
00:55:23,719 --> 00:55:25,880
Speaker 1: the first place, there was a sense that both groups

1020
00:55:25,920 --> 00:55:28,680
Speaker 1: ought to stand together, but the Portland police felt they

1021
00:55:28,719 --> 00:55:31,680
Speaker 1: deserved more money than firefighters, so they left the firefighters

1022
00:55:31,719 --> 00:55:34,440
Speaker 1: behind and demanded more money. The city refused this, and

1023
00:55:34,520 --> 00:55:38,520
Speaker 1: negotiations ground on for months and well into nineteen sixty nine.

1024
00:55:38,760 --> 00:55:43,520
Speaker 1: I'm gonna quote again from pickets, pistols and politics. Callison

1025
00:55:43,560 --> 00:55:45,560
Speaker 1: decided to try to break the impass in a more

1026
00:55:45,600 --> 00:55:49,040
Speaker 1: subtle fashion. He started waging psychological warfare, and this way

1027
00:55:49,120 --> 00:55:51,400
Speaker 1: Callison managed to scare away at least one member of

1028
00:55:51,440 --> 00:55:54,759
Speaker 1: the city's negotiating team. Callison ran the man's name through

1029
00:55:54,840 --> 00:55:58,279
Speaker 1: police uh like like databases and stuff and found his

1030
00:55:58,320 --> 00:56:00,480
Speaker 1: criminal record. He called a friend who worked at the

1031
00:56:00,520 --> 00:56:03,120
Speaker 1: Oregonian and asked him to check the newspaper's library, and

1032
00:56:03,200 --> 00:56:05,919
Speaker 1: the friends sent along a few clippings of articles about

1033
00:56:05,920 --> 00:56:08,480
Speaker 1: the man in question, news of promotion, social activities, and

1034
00:56:08,520 --> 00:56:11,160
Speaker 1: other innocent doings. The guy was apparently purest snow, but

1035
00:56:11,239 --> 00:56:13,920
Speaker 1: Callison went ahead and put the information in a file folder.

1036
00:56:14,120 --> 00:56:16,440
Speaker 1: He neatly printed the man's name on the tab. At

1037
00:56:16,480 --> 00:56:18,800
Speaker 1: the beginning of the next negotiating session, he put the

1038
00:56:18,840 --> 00:56:21,200
Speaker 1: file in a prominent place as he spread out his papers.

1039
00:56:21,480 --> 00:56:23,880
Speaker 1: The folder caught the man's eyes sometime during the session.

1040
00:56:23,960 --> 00:56:26,480
Speaker 1: He couldnot stop glancing nervously, they added, as it sat

1041
00:56:26,560 --> 00:56:29,840
Speaker 1: conspicuously within Callison's reach. Finally, he could not stand it

1042
00:56:29,920 --> 00:56:33,480
Speaker 1: any longer. What is this, he demanded, Oh, Callison said, smiling,

1043
00:56:33,600 --> 00:56:36,640
Speaker 1: This is my file on you. Callison kept smiling at him,

1044
00:56:36,760 --> 00:56:39,040
Speaker 1: while thinking craftily to himself that surely one of the

1045
00:56:39,120 --> 00:56:41,040
Speaker 1: joys of being a police officer was that he could

1046
00:56:41,080 --> 00:56:43,800
Speaker 1: make people feel guilty even when they were not. The

1047
00:56:43,880 --> 00:56:47,920
Speaker 1: man excused himself and never returned to the negotiations. The

1048
00:56:48,160 --> 00:56:52,320
Speaker 1: joys of policing he could make innocent people feel guilty.

1049
00:56:53,239 --> 00:56:55,560
Speaker 1: That's why I go to work every day personally, is

1050
00:56:55,640 --> 00:56:59,440
Speaker 1: to make innocent people feel bad. I love that that

1051
00:56:59,560 --> 00:57:02,520
Speaker 1: story and all some first illegally using the police record

1052
00:57:02,600 --> 00:57:04,440
Speaker 1: system to try to dig up dirt on somebody, and

1053
00:57:04,480 --> 00:57:06,560
Speaker 1: then when he couldn't find dirt on the person, he

1054
00:57:06,719 --> 00:57:08,960
Speaker 1: just lies and pretends that he hasn't in order it

1055
00:57:09,160 --> 00:57:12,360
Speaker 1: does seem like sort of a useful tactic just for

1056
00:57:12,480 --> 00:57:14,480
Speaker 1: us all to know, like, oh, if you can't do

1057
00:57:14,680 --> 00:57:16,760
Speaker 1: the work, you just make a file and you label

1058
00:57:16,800 --> 00:57:19,240
Speaker 1: it in the work and you put it on the table.

1059
00:57:19,920 --> 00:57:23,040
Speaker 1: So I'll try it. We could talk about how Alex

1060
00:57:23,120 --> 00:57:25,479
Speaker 1: Jones does his show. It is basically the safe strip.

1061
00:57:28,600 --> 00:57:31,840
Speaker 1: So despite the psychological warfare, the city wouldn't budge. It

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Speaker 1: became clear to the union that a strike was their

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Speaker 1: only option. The p PA charter expressly banned strikes. They'd

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Speaker 1: condemned the other departments for considering strikes like so basically

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Speaker 1: previous to this, the p p A had told other

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Speaker 1: departments that you have to have no strike clauses in

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Speaker 1: your union contracts uh. And they helped to form a

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Speaker 1: national police union, and they forbade members of that union

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Speaker 1: from striking. But now they needed to strike in order

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Speaker 1: to get more money, so they strong armed asked ME

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Speaker 1: into releasing the p PA from its no strike clause,

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Speaker 1: which was removed first from their contract and then from

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Speaker 1: the International Brotherhood of Police Officers constitutions. Subsequently, the p

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Speaker 1: p A has always been the bellweather of US police unions,

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Speaker 1: and when they succeeded the rest of the nation's cops

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Speaker 1: copied them. Uh so when they decided striking was cool,

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Speaker 1: suddenly police unions across the country were able to strike

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Speaker 1: again and strike the Portland police did, marching around city

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Speaker 1: Hall with signs that said crime pays, police work doesn't,

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Speaker 1: No pay, No pigs and other rib ticklers. Yeah, they

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Speaker 1: called themselves pigs there. Yeah, yeah, it's yeah, it's great.

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Speaker 1: Through their crooked arrangements to look the other way at

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Speaker 1: criminal enterprises run by teamsters and longshoremen. Over the years,

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Speaker 1: they were able to get both unions to abide by

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Speaker 1: the picket lines and refused to cross them. The police

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Speaker 1: then started picketing the docks, which effectively locked down all

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Speaker 1: trade within the city of Portland. This cratered the local

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Speaker 1: economy and the city government was forced to come to

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Speaker 1: the table and give the p p A the rays

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Speaker 1: they thought it's that they deserved. Not only did the

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Speaker 1: Portland Police come the highest paid civil servants in the city,

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Speaker 1: they gained retroactive pay hikes for the previous seventeen months

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Speaker 1: that they'd worked without a contract. The whole process had

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Speaker 1: taken nearly two years of negotiation, but as the p

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Speaker 1: PA's own Biography states the result was a contract that

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Speaker 1: would serve as the model for police groups around the country.

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Speaker 1: I don't have any like cute comments. I'm just like

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Speaker 1: so mad. It's a period, right, Like they're even fucking

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Speaker 1: over other cops because for years they would like throw

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Speaker 1: other cops under the bus when they tried to strike.

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Speaker 1: But as soon as Portland's cops want more money, like

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Speaker 1: striking is good now, it's amazing. It's so craven. And

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Speaker 1: they held the city hostage. They threatened to destroy the

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Speaker 1: city's economy, which is like seems sort of like what

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Speaker 1: criminals would do, you know, just like blackmail a whole

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Speaker 1: city for money. We're good. It does seem illegal, but

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Speaker 1: I'm not a law nowhere guy, not a law doer

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Speaker 1: or nowhere. You have basic common sense. Yeah, it seems

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Speaker 1: I don't know, super unethical what the Portland police did,

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Speaker 1: but they're the police. Who's who's gonna arrest them. They're

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Speaker 1: on strike, you know, Like, yeah, the FBI is not

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Speaker 1: going to funk with them. Now. They needed to help

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Speaker 1: screw with the black panthers, right, gotta like interrupt those

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Speaker 1: free breakfast programs like it can have doctors helping people know, Look,

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Speaker 1: we'd love to stop the police from holding the city hostage,

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Speaker 1: but we've got a lot of doctors to threaten. Uh talk.

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Speaker 1: That is the end of part one. Do you have

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Speaker 1: any plug doubles that you'd like to plug? Oh? Gosh, yeah.

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Speaker 1: So I make a podcast called Gender Reveals about trans people,

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Speaker 1: and while we're making the show, we also raise money

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Speaker 1: to support trans people, specifically trans people of color. And

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Speaker 1: we're recording this on Trans Day of Remembrance, So even

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Speaker 1: though you're not listening to it, then you can retroactively

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Speaker 1: commemorate Trans Day of Remembrance by donating to the Gender

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Speaker 1: Reveal Patreon at patreo dot com slash gender. And then

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Speaker 1: we take that money and give it to black and

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Speaker 1: indigenous trans people and trans people of color. So, you know,

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Speaker 1: almost as fun as funding cops for like hundreds of

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Speaker 1: thousands of dollars a year, you can give trans people

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Speaker 1: like ten dollars, which yeah, might might probably will not

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Speaker 1: be used to tear gas you. Um, I feel confident

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Speaker 1: in making that statement. What was that? What was that link? Again?

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Speaker 1: That is patreon dot com slash gender. I got that handle.

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Speaker 1: Apparently no one's ever done gender before, so Patreon dot

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Speaker 1: com slash gender. That's great, Patreon dot com slash gender,

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Speaker 1: give give some bucks if you've got some bucks. And

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Speaker 1: that is I think the note that we're going to

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Speaker 1: end episode one on when we come back, we'll talk

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Speaker 1: had some real, some real bleak ship to be honest. Great.

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Speaker 1: I cannot wait to try to make that fun. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I actually completely forgot to plug the new podcast about

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Speaker 1: Portland's and the Portland Police that this two part of

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Speaker 1: episode was made in part to promote because I'm a

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Speaker 1: hacking of fraud. So check out Uprising a Guide from

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Speaker 1: Portland on all of the podcast places, all the places

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Speaker 1: you know where the pods and they're casted, all the

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Speaker 1: all the different spots. There's two episodes. It's called Uprising

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Speaker 1: a Guide from Portland. There's a colon after the word uprising.

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Speaker 1: Maybe not our best call title wise anyway. Uh yea