Portland Safety Official: I Had to Tell People to Not Call 911 Due to Overdoses Flooding Us, We've Been 'Too Tolerant'

On Tuesday's broadcast of NewsNation's "On Balance," Portland City Commissioner of Public Safety Rene Gonzalez stated that he posted that people shouldn't call 911 unless their life was in danger, a crime was in progress, or there was a chance of catching a suspect on Monday due to the police being overwhelmed with overdoses and that said the city was "probably too tolerant and accepting as a city...on some of these behaviors that really destroyed the livability for everyone else." Gonzalez also stated that "we've focused too much sometimes on the user, on the migratory homeless in defining who we should be building government around" at the expense of people who want to contribute to society and have a nice place to live.