Fund The Police? Portland Unrest Leads To Record Overtime For More Than A Dozen Cops

Portland protesters’ efforts to defund the Portland Police Department may have inadvertently pushed salaries for at least a dozen Portland cops over $200,000 according to a report for Oregon Live.

Portland police officers, the outlet notes, have been logging record overtime hours as unrest, first in the city’s downtown and now in the more residential, further reaches of Portland. Efforts to control the demonstrations, centered around defunding local law enforcement — many of which ultimately turn into riots — have led the department to pay out more than $4 million in overtime pay.