Portland is shrinking. The latest U.S. census figures came out recently. Almost every major city in Oregon lost people.
Multnomah County DA office is understaffed. So if people don't have a public attorney assigned, DA Mike Schmidt dismisses charges and people walk free. So crime basically goes unpunished and so more crime is committed and people leave. So the tax base shrinks and there is no money to hire public attorneys. Rinse, repeat.