{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Portland Police Reserve Foundation", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/152223572328/", "html": "<a href=\"http://portlandpolicereserves.com/aboutus_historyofthereserves.html\">Portland Police Reserve Foundation</a>\n<p>The more historical context you know (i.e. that Portland was a mob town into the 60s) the more grimly hilarious this official history of the Portland Police Reserves gets.\n</p><p>\n\u201cLike sure we started in the 1920s as \u2018Vigilantes\u2019 but that was just the custom of the time. The important thing was legitimate businessmen giving Christmas turkeys to the poor!\u201d\n</p><p>\n\u201cNot only did this \u2018rough and tumble bunch\u2019 of uniformed, armed, lightly trained but unpaid men offer flexibility and support on missions like prostitution stings, but they\u2019re civically involved, pushing for things like higher police salaries!\u201d\n</p><p>\n\u201cAlso since 2011 they can arrest anyone in Oregon\u201d </p>"}