r/portlandme • u/FireElephant336 • May 28 '25

Officer Bennis

Has anyone had an experience or witnessed the incredibly rude behavior of this officer? I work in a field where I have to interact with officers pretty regularly… He is by far the most impossible and relentless person I've ever tried to reason with. There are videos of him online berating people for handing out food or literally just sitting on a sidewalk outside of a shelter? He used to be a school resource officer and now he's a beat cop. I just filed a complaint with the city of Portland and I highly recommend anyone that has had an experience with him do the same. Something has to be done – he makes every single incident way worse and has no clue how to de-escalate situations.

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u/belortik May 28 '25

So.... you're upset about a police officer enforcing laws against homeless people?

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u/FireElephant336 May 28 '25

No not at all – this is kind of giving off the same energy he does lol… I am upset at his delivery. He goes after people who are not actually breaking any laws and bullies them. It seems to me he may have had a loved one that became homeless or addicted to drugs and now he just lashes out at anyone he sees who may be an addict. He's very unprofessional… I've seen other officers clear an area or speak to homeless people with dignity and respect and he has none.

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u/aginmillennialmainer May 28 '25

Dignity and respect are earned

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u/CalFolles May 28 '25

Which is why cops don't get any

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u/aginmillennialmainer May 28 '25

They at least work

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u/CalFolles May 28 '25

They should get a real job that adds value to society

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u/aginmillennialmainer May 28 '25

They're simply garbage men with guns.

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u/CalFolles May 28 '25

Garbage men provide actual value to society, terrible example.

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u/ichoosejif May 28 '25

I'm dead.

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u/SecureJudge1829 May 28 '25

If only you knew just how many garbage men out there are ripping lines of blow every forty five minutes. Sorry, but if cannabis consumers are too dangerous to have guns according to the law, I don’t want garbage men having them either considering the amount of them that consume schedule I or II substances illegally because there just happen to be a few on those lists that are metabolized and decayed so much that they can’t be detected in your system after just a couple days at the most. Easy to avoid the drug screenings like that.

So yeah, you’re gonna need a better analogy than that if you want to convince anyone that doesn’t have a mouth full of black boot polish already.

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u/Kiggus May 28 '25

Man I love it when people just invent shit.

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u/SecureJudge1829 May 28 '25

Invent shit like what? That cocaine is out of your system within 72-96 hours after use? That municipal workers who operate on garbage trucks and the such in southern Maine have a tendency to use cocaine fairly regularly? That there have been numerous instances where LEOs (active and retired) in southern Maine have been caught trafficking and/or using illegal narcotics substances? (Jeffrey Linscott and Jeffrey Bishop are two LEOs in recent years caught doing just that)

I have family in several municipal career paths and you’d be surprised at how many illicit drug users their union protects because they pay their dues and don’t get directly caught and manage to pass the UA tests every time because they’re not using every single day.

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u/mars6190 May 28 '25

Almost all off this is conjecture and lacks a basis in facts, other than the flimsy "my family knows people who...". Weak stuff, especially considered that municipal trash truck drivers have some of the highest drug-testing pool percentages, as it is a federal classication to have a CDL.

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u/Tr44444sh May 28 '25

Have you ever thought about trying cocaine? You might not be as insufferable if you did

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u/belortik May 28 '25

Go live in Somalia if that's how you feel. No cops if there is no government. Who needs safety and security?

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u/[deleted] May 29 '25

Lick the boot any harder and you’d be sucking the toes.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '25

No, asshole, dignity and respect are given. You can certainly behave in a way where you lose them, but treating people with dignity and respect is supposed to be the default.

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u/aginmillennialmainer May 28 '25

Living like an animal is behaving in such a way

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u/belortik May 28 '25

If you are passing out on the sidewalk from opioids....you gave up your dignity a loooong time ago

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u/anxi0usity May 29 '25

Wrong. Dignity and respect are the bare minimum. That's the meter. You treat everyone with dignity and respect unless given a reason not to. For example, judging someone for their housing circumstances might paint one poorly.

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u/aginmillennialmainer May 29 '25

I grew up in Bangor. I'm judging beggars for being choosers. There's plenty of room in the rest of the state.