Editorial: Portland's leaders, it is time — it is well past time — to lead

The nightly crisis of riot and violence has to stop, and the leadership of City Hall and the Portland Police Bureau have to lead the way.

The nightly crisis in downtown Portland could have been averted any number of ways. All it would have taken was leadership and common sense.

We did not get that from Mayor Ted Wheeler. We did not get that from Police Chief Jami Resch before she stepped down, nor from current Chief Chuck Lovell. We did not get that from Portland Police Union President Daryl Turner. We did not get that from the police command staff. We did not get that from hardly anyone who mattered.