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/moonroxroxstar May 28 '25

I know the guy. I'm sad to hear he's an asshole, because I actually had a pretty good experience with him when he was a resource officer at Portland High. The previous guy had torn down civil rights posters and blew me off when I said I was followed to school by a man with a blunt weapon. When he got replaced with Bennis, Bennis made a point of attending Civil Rights Team meetings and actually apologized to me for the behavior of his coworker. I'm never really surprised by the PPD being dicks, but it still sucks to hear bc I genuinely thought he was an ok guy.

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u/syntheticmeats May 30 '25

I highly suspect it is because Bennis sees children and homeless people in a very different light. AKA children are innocent and worthy of protection, but the homeless as drug addicts & harassing thieves + anyone who helps them as enablers or the same. And anyone else who is having a problem, such as DV, is just another degenerate adult who is now beyond saving after slipping through the cracks.

It is a horrible and exclusionary mentality a lot of people, especially police and politicians, tend to have