Maine’s largest paper thought it was breaking news with a story about the huge rise in police calls at the library.
But beyond a shallow catalog of police calls, the story never once mentions how this impacts children and families, placing them in literal fear of simply visiting their library.
The piece also downplays what it characterizes simply as “drug use, disturbances and littering,” when it is much, much worse.
The newspaper of record failed to point out that families no longer feel safe in the state’s biggest-city library.
And it goes beyond simply failing to point out just how far the quality of life has fallen in the city that once famously, literally arose from the ashes.
√ A Reny’s store manager was severely injured after an attack by an “unhoused individual.”
√ A security guard downtown was severely beaten by an “unhoused individual.”
√ The very-tolerant Portland Food Co-op has had to close its cafe and bathroom due to violence against staff and drug overdoses in the store.
Every business on Congress Street is being negatively impacted and the ones that haven’t closed are in tenuous situations.
But the Portland Press Herald glosses over all that negativity and simply publishes a police blotter that fails to acknowledge the underpinnings of the detritus in downtown Portland, Maine.
“Odd reporting from the Portland Press Herald,” a downtown resident told The Maine Wire. “It’s really sad.”
Portland Press Herald Glosses Over Fear At Maine’s Big City Library, Once An Urban Oasis, Now A Dangerous Drug Den Where Children Are At Risk
By Ted Cohen
I was happy to leave the same content on the PPH story today that whines on about no daytime clubhouse for the street zombies. The unicorn and rainbow brigade that unfortunately controls Maine politics today are virtually clueless to address this crisis or the safety and security of the majority. Narcotic addicted and mentally ill the last thing this population needs is a free pass to subject the rest of society to their “destitution without boundaries” our elected social justice reformers have delivered. Fifty years ago, the attack on institutional management of those so afflicted they are incapable of making informed decisions as to their own wellbeing began highlighting the bad acts of a few staff as a call for social justice reform. Maine codified decades ago the protective custody provisions of MRS 34-B 3862 which subjects by specific description the very population that inflict on society much of the ills they suffer from as a direct result of incompetent and misguided political leadership. But do we use those provisions of law to address this crisis, woke no we don’t. Doesn’t help that our bench in Maine was constituted with the left of center by Don Vito Mills who in eight years made sure to present judicial candidates for a Dem rubber stamp confirmation who have “social justice R-US” tattooed on their ass cheeks. Just wait until Comrade Sartoris inflicts her “restorative justice” program where victims are forced to sit in a room and listen to the BS excuses of a criminal offender, they all hug and call it justice restored. I’m sure the 12-year-old girl terrorized by such vermin at the Portland Public Library will really appreciate the personal touch. If ever there was an elected official who needed recall she is the poster Bolshevik to start with. So, institutions closed, codified law ignored and the ACLU with a clear advantage with a liberal and progressive bench to ensure the zombie apocalypse remains alive and well in the Pine Tree.