Portland private security guard Michael Bock told Fox News last month that fentanyl overdoses rose 533% in Multnomah County, the state's most populous county, between 2018 and 2022.
Dealers act with "absolute impunity," he said, and hand out drugs like it is a "7-Eleven."
"They're doing it in schools, they're doing it parking lots, they're doing it in playgrounds, they're doing it at churches, in front of businesses. They're doing it in broad daylight and nothing is stopping it," he remarked.
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