{"id":103680,"date":"2020-08-14T07:00:08","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=103680"},"modified":"2020-08-14T11:46:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T15:46:38","slug":"new-police-chief-disarms-his-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=103680","title":{"rendered":"New police chief disarms his officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Willie Halliburton of the Portland State University Police has been a cop for 32 years, at the university PD for 5, and for the last month has been chief of the agency. As one of his first official edicts, he&#8217;s disarming his officers.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right, no more guns, but he assures that they will still be able to provide safety to the community.\u00a0&#8220;It&#8217;s going to have its challenges, but it&#8217;s the right thing to do for Portland State University.&#8221; Yeah, OK.<\/p>\n<p>For the inevitable situation that requires an armed response from real cops, they&#8217;re gonna call the Portland Police Bureau. Thankfully things have been quiet around Portland for the last 75 days or so, so those officers are all rested up and ready to respond.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the chief talking about it;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EDORS7T4rtE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m speechless. This is truly <strong>Stunning<\/strong> <em>and<\/em> <strong>Brave<\/strong>. I can&#8217;t foresee how this could possibly go wrong.<\/p>\n<p>The president of the university also announced &#8220;the creation of the Reimagine Campus Safety Committee. The committee\u2019s work will be guided by our commitment to providing a campus environment that is free of racism, celebrates the diversity of our community, and honors our dedication to human dignity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The steering committee for this endeavor is made up of;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jose Coll (a Hispanic man) who is a Dean and Professor in the Social Work Department (and who coincidentally has as one of his areas of research expertise &#8220;military culture&#8221;),<\/li>\n<li>Ed Washington (a black man) who is Director of Community Outreach and Engagement,<\/li>\n<li>Vicki Reitenauer (a white woman), and<\/li>\n<li>Student body President Motutama Sipelii (a Samoan man).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For a school that believes they are systemically racist, there&#8217;s a lot of people who seem to have beaten the odds and succeeded in spite of how racist the school is.<\/p>\n<p>Full announcement from the President of PSU <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pdx.edu\/president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>**Correction**<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>An earlier version of this post said that Jose Coll&#8217;s CV lacked military service. He does indeed, at the absolute bottom of his 16-page CV, say that he was a Recon Marine for four years.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saintleo.edu\/blog\/serving-veterans-in-transition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article<\/a> he says, &#8220;I joined the Marine Corps when I was 23 and served at Camp Pendleton, Calif, with the 1<sup>st<\/sup> Force Reconnaissance Company before fracturing my back and being medically discharged.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A small community like Force Recon Marines will probably be able to verify his service, he was in from 1996-2000.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Willie Halliburton of the Portland State University Police has been a cop for 32 years, &hellip; <a title=\"New police chief disarms his officers\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=103680\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New police chief disarms his officers<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[227,5,236,271],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-police","category-politics","category-wtf","category-ygbsm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103701,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103680\/revisions\/103701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}