The Portland Police Bureau is fending off attacks on several fronts from antifa’s forces laying siege on government property on a nearly nightly basis, to the public claiming that the police department is increasingly politicized, and not handling emergencies efficiently.

But the bureau’s problems, critics say, date back to soft-on-crime initiatives brought by anti-police activism and an institutional rot that has had a sprawling effect.

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