Meals On Wheels forced to leave Crackheadville because of ‘feces, needles, drug dealing, and deaths’

Meals on Wheels has been forced to shutter two distribution points in America’s most leftist city, Portland, because of the usual drama and nonsense that every business in a leftist wonderland has to deal with.

“It’s been a long time coming,” Meals on Wheels Chief Executive Officer Suzanne Washington told local station KOIN.  “I can’t keep our staff safe and our volunteers safe because there’s always something happening.”

“We’ve been threatened with knives, and fires have been set. It was time to close. Every day, they’re stepping over feces, and there’s needles and drug dealing and deaths,” she added.

According to Washington, there was even once a time when her staffers had to step over a dead body to enter their headquarters.

Sounds about perfectly right for the leftist utopia that is Portland, Oregon.

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In Portland, the local branch of the national Meals on Wheels program is known as Meals on Wheels People (MOWP).

Locals aren’t thrilled by the MOWP locations being closed, but to their credit, they at least understand the reasoning.

“If you’re out here by yourself, don’t come out here at night,” resident Sean Meece said, describing the dangerous nature of the community. “Because within a mile or two-mile radius, it’s not a fun place to be by yourself.”

Indeed.

On July 1, a man was killed just blocks away from one location. In mid-June, someone else was stabbed in a separate incident nearby.

Of all the cities in Oregon, Portland has consistently reported the highest number of crimes every year.

“In 2023, it logged 42,238 incidents, including 4,560 violent offenses,” according to Reolink. “Its residents face a 1-in-15 chance of becoming a victim, and car thieves strike at a rate of 13 per 1,000 people.”

This just released, according to FBI statistics, Portland, Oregon now ranks as the second most dangerous place to live, second only to Memphis, Tennissee.

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A couple of miles away from one of the shuttered MOWP locations, Elm Court, is Portland’s Pearl District, where residents have said it’s “every man for himself.”

“It’s sad. No security. It’s like every man for himself,” longtime resident Guthrie Murry Jr. told local station KGW last month. “The homeless people, their bicycles, their dogs, the aggressiveness — they use, smoking the fentanyl.”

“It makes us feel unsafe, especially when the assaults are happening in our blocks,” neighborhood activist Linda Witt added. “And you know they are happening to elderly people because we have a huge elderly population here in the Pearl.”

“My building has to pay for private security to loop around the building at night to make sure nobody is breaking in,” she added.

Their remarks were prompted by a spate of recent break-ins and attacks.

“[A] man followed a resident into the parking garage of the Cosmopolitan Condos in late July, stole a camping hatchet from a vehicle, and was seen carrying it around the garage,” KGW notes. “Around the same time, surveillance video from The Fields Bar and Grill showed a shirtless man attacking a woman without provocation.”

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Making matters worse are plans by city officials to open a 200-bed homeless shelter in the area this month.

“They are concentrating a drug crisis in the neighborhood with multiple hundreds of people who are going to be sheltered at night and then released out into the streets during the day,” Northwest District Association President Todd Zarnitz said.

“It’s creating a fertile ground for craziness and dangerous conditions,” he added.

In fairness, leftist policies have been turning ALL of Portland into “fertile ground for craziness and dangerous conditions.”

As America’s most leftist city, Portland has a habit of pursuing the most radical, insane policy “solutions.” As a result, it’s been hemorrhaging taxpaying voters left and right.

“Nearly 12,000 people moved out of Multnomah County between 2020 and 2023, per data from Portland State University,” according to a Politico report filed last October.

“The exodus between 2020 and 2021 alone took nearly $1.1 billion in taxable income out of the city, according to data analyzed by the Economic Innovation Group. Portland’s once bustling downtown is nearly empty, and a negative national reputation clouds its economic future,” the reporting continued.