Portland City Council votes to participate with JTTF

Source: KATU

PORTLAND, Ore. – The Portland City Council voted unanimously Thursday evening to participate with the Joint Terrorism Task Force.

The council approved a resolution that gives the city power to decide when and how Portland police officers will join federal investigators in terror cases.

According to a source, Commissioner Dan Saltzman might have been the lone holdout, wanting the city to become a full-fledged member of the JTTF. But in the end, the resolution to participate, but not join, got all five votes.

The resolution will allow police to put some officers in place with security clearance to help as needed.

Read more: http://www.katu.com/news/local/120924894.html

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I haven't decided if I'm ok with this or not...

There's a chance this could lead to serious problems, but that isn't guaranteed. I'd feel a lot better about it if there were some additional oversight of how the PPB conducts itself in JTTF matters.

Screw that.

Most likely they just want suck at the federal mic teet.

Its not going to do anything terribly useful for us, but it will bring in more federal influence. I foresee the actual result of this being more drug based investigations.