In or Out?I find it digusting that there are loopholes that allow someone to abuse the City's disability fund to avoid punishment.If the dollar amounts are high enough, he should be prosecuted. Jensen is doing better than Martha and ENRON execs!—Fire the sleaze

 

City BenefitsI`d do the same thing if I was receiving the same cake benifits that the city employees get!—Hershel Figowicz

 

cw put his time inits not easy being a cop in a place as liberal as portland...remember that when your in your office nice and safe and doing your cushy job which you ww people suck at.—

 

...you're serious...?so are you saying he should be prosectued for less than $150? I wonder how much money you've seen just "laying around" that has discreetly gone in your pocket.And....did you seriously just compare him to Martha Stewart and ENRON execs? Seriously? Are you...are you stupid?—Go back to college, you old shrew

 

Allrightie friends, let's share a little bit of information on policing in a large american city, on disability pensions, and on retirements in general for emergency workers:

First, we must all know that there are many former emergency workers on the street homeless in their old age because they lost their pension eligibility or their employment late in their careers. It is a never ending struggle to be able to retire for an emergency worker. The nature of emergency work is such that on any given work day that cop, fireman, or paramedic might have to take an action in defense of his or her own life or that of another person which might put them in harms way, or which might cause debilitating long term phyysical or psychological effects.

I think we'd do well to ask these questions, in considering Captain jensen's fitness , or the level of deservedness which he has for a retirement pension:

1) How long did he serve with the Portland Police bureau?

2) In what types of units did he serve, and what experiences did he have?

3) Did he do things which most civillians are never called upon to do, while working as a police officer or as a police commander?

4) Does his service seem qualifying for some sort of a retirement, if retirements are what we reward long serving officers with for their faithful years of service?

I think this long serving police captain is due a retirement pension - disability or otherwise, whichever his doctors and the city deem most apropriate - as a reward for his long years of honorable service. Let's not cheat a long serving officer out of his retirement. Let's give the man his retirement pension and move on with the pressing and much more important (to the citizenry at large) issue of cleaning up downtown Portland, which is rife with dope fiends, muggers, and disenfranchised unwashed youths robbed of their dreams and of their ambition by the cheap and plentiful black tar heroin and crystal methamphetamine sold in an open air narcotics market downtown and just across the Burnside Bridge. Let's staff our vacant but still expensive empty county jail facility, so that criminals aren't released with no bail under what may be described as a sort of "revolving door lottery system".

Will someone please tell the new police chief that we need young, active police foot patrolmen - a lot of them - on the downtown streets? Can we get some federal money for that? Where is all of the federal money cities are supposed to have received to bolster emergency services in the wake of 9/11?

All of these things are more important than worrying about one long serving retiring officers pension arrangements.

Will someone please call former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani, and ask him to come out here for a few weeks and tell our elected officials how to clean up the downtown area of a city?

Former NYPD Officer, living in the Portland area.