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That's all well and good, but the manpower required in this area is just not there.  A lot of folks not familiar to this area don't realize how remote an area it is.  The population of Waldport, OR is around 2000 people.  And that's mostly in summer.  It's around 15 miles between Waldport and Newport, which is sparsely populated in between (again, mostly in summer).  To the east of the whole area is nothing but coast range forest.  There is a whole lot of nothing, and many places to hide.

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What puzzles me is the lack of information given about what happened after his vehicle hit the spike strip.  How many police where there?  Did he fire at them?  Did they pursue on foot?  We heard nothing of this.  I just hope it wasn't a couple of out of shape cops who couldn't keep up with him on foot.  I have few complaints for police ( I would not want that job), but shouldn't it be a requirement that they have to maintain some level of fitness?  Think about how many out of shape cops you see...

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Also, I didn't realize it before, but I know Officer Dodds and his daughter from seeing them at the Newport Rec Center working out all the time.  He was a high energy, nice guy.  In really good shape.  Will has a whole lot with pulling through something like this, and I'm sure he has enough of it.

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A number of years ago, a prisoner was released from the Lincoln county jail.  He proceeded to walk into someones house, steal booze and a loaded 45.  He then went and broke into many houses in my Newport neighborhood, shooting out many windows. This idiot cut himself on broken glass, and bled everywhere.  This included my downstairs neighbor's apartment.  My neighbor came home, found the place ransacked, and called police.

I was at a nearby bar and came home after this, knowing nothing of it.  I came home, went into my place, and heard a lot of noise coming from underneath me.  I knew my neighbor well enough that I went out to my deck (where we had a stairway connecting both of our decks) and was met by three Newport cops and two sheriffs with all their weapons drawn, screaming at me.  For about three seconds, I thought I was done.  I prayed that none of these guys had an itchy trigger finger.  They took me down, cuffed me, then went and searched my place.  

After they secured the area, then started questioning me.  Even though I had no weapon, and wasn't cut anywhere, they still treated me as a suspect.  My brother is a cop, so I do understand why, they were doing their jobs.  When they let my neighbor back in her place, she saw me, and said "Why have you cuffed him??  He's my neighbor, he didn't do this."  After questioning her, they let me go.  

Strangely, they let me back into my place, even though the guy was still loose.  Turns out, he broke into a vacation house next door and the cops sat and waited for him to come out the next morning.  I woke up to "GET DOWN, GET DOWN, GET DOWN ON THE GROUND!!!".  They arrested him, where by he told them that someone else was in there.  Then the swat team showed up and I was forced to leave.  They were their for around eight hours, until they got permission to search the place.  Nobody was in there.

In the end, this coast is a remote area, and is very dark at night.  If he was hiding out in a place, he could have easily move around at night.  He could be anywhere by now.  

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The president had dealt with what he was given fairly well.

What everyone must realize is that the Republican party only wants to get him out of office.  Everything is political to them.  Everything they do is about this one goal.

The president's problem is he wants to act like an adult (compromise, etc.) and do what's best for the country.  They don't.

I've never believed he was some great savior.  I always saw him as a pragmatist.  I still have hope for him.

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Is there a measure of teen pregnancy for Oregon specifically?  Or stds?  Even though I'm old enough to know that abstinence is the best for teens, I was at one time a 14 year old boy with raging hormones.  It took a little while, but I eventually found a girl who had raging hormones as well.  At the time, condom use to tatooed into my brain, so I used them, for years.

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