In another wonderful year of killing people with ‘kindness’. Portland Oregon has another banner year of dead in the streets – 2024 saw 372 homeless found dead on sidewalks and ditches.

If you want to know if your policy of compassion is working – you should measure it. The metrics here show that once Oregon legalized drug use, legalized camping, and all the free treatment options available – deaths still went from around 80 per year to over 372. That’s going from around 1 death a week to more than one a day. How much is supposed compassion worth when jail did a much better job saving lives than all the free treatment, legalization, free tents, and enablement?

Meanwhile, the city leaders pat themselves on the back because it’s just 22 less than 2023.

Full report here.

St. André Bessette Catholic Church (a place I have volunteered at many times) will hold a memorial service for homeless that died due to Portland’s policies on Dec. 21.