Portlan, Oregon, paragon of progressivism and police-defunding, *used* to have a Coast Guard Cutter as a museum ship, the USCGC Alert. Then it got turned into a homeless encampment. Then it sank.

Rather than spending taxpayer funds on police, civic improvement, restoration ans sustainment of history and dealing with abandoned military vessels in their waters, the Portland government decided to be Portland.

Abandoned former Coast Guard vessel sinks off Hayden Island, costing taxpayers