Some in the establishment media are finally coming to the realization that Portland has a problem with homicides, riots, and vandalism. While this may be news to them, it isn’t for anyone who recognized this as it was happening last year.

A report by Scott Wilson in the Washington Post details just how bad the situation in Portland has become. According to Wilson, the city is experiencing “a kind of generational hopelessness … and a return to an old-school style of gun violence reminiscent of a tit-for-tat cycle of deadly reprisals.” Homicides are up, the police department is facing a shortage of officers, and “mostly white middle-class students” are vandalizing churches and black-owned businesses.