Oregon continues to allow career criminals to run wild
Zachary Faria
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Oregon is still reaping the consequences of its pro-criminal policies, as career criminals continue to show that they do not belong free on the streets.
The biggest story out of Oregon right now is that of Jesse Lee Calhoun, who has been identified by police as a person of interest in the deaths of four women. Calhoun was let out of jail early by former Gov. Kate Brown (D-OR) with the excuse of the pandemic, which many Democrats used to get prisoners back out on the streets before their sentences were up. Calhoun also had his sentence shortened for being one of the inmates who fought wildfires in the state.
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He had landed in jail in 2019 with felony convictions for injuring a police officer, choking a police canine, burglary, and possession of a stolen vehicle. Brown giving him an early release isn’t even the worst part of the story, as Calhoun was only scheduled to remain behind bars until June 2022. This despite the fact that Calhoun had a rap sheet dating back to 2004, including being convicted of assault in 2009. After his short three-year sentence and his early release, he is now a suspected serial killer. He was incarcerated once again in June, this time on a parole violation.
Meanwhile, the top Japanese diplomat in Portland was sent to a hospital by a homeless woman who has a track record of attacking Asian residents of the city. Dating back to last year, that woman punched a 76-year-old man in the head repeatedly and put him in a choke hold and attacked a woman and her one-year-old child in Portland’s China Town.
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The charges in both cases were dropped because she was deemed unfit to stand trial, but she also was not sent to a state mental hospital either. Instead, she was put back on the street and went on to assault a Japanese official in an unprovoked attack. So much for “Stop Asian Hate.”
This is how deeply ingrained pro-criminal “reforms” are in Portland and Oregon. A criminal with a rap sheet nearly two decades long, including convictions for violent crimes, was given a short sentence for another set of violent crimes and let out early from that short sentence without a second guess. A woman with a record of violent, racially targeted assaults is put neither in jail nor a mental institution, let free to continue assaulting people until it’s a member of the Japanese government. This is not how a serious city or state handles crime, but it is how Portland and Oregon do.