More on David Golliday, from a Nick Budnick piece in WW in 2005:

"Golliday's drunken actions at a bawdy Halloween party attended by off-duty cops and prosecutors sparked a yearlong investigation in 2001. Another cop's fiancée told investigators Golliday grabbed her breasts and reached under her skirt, and later sent cops to her home to pressure her not to complain. He was accused of grabbing at other women, too, as well as swearing at a female district attorney. Police reports also show an unusual level of smack-talk: One cop said, "Golliday was bragging about how he had killed a man with his bare hands in Detroit."

Golliday was demoted from sergeant but not charged. And this was not the first time his mouth and hands caused problems. One evening in 1994, two years after coming to Portland from the Pontiac, Ill., police department outside Chicago, Golliday responded to a family disturbance at a Northeast Portland house. When he asked the 22-year-old son, Christopher Dean, to come down from the porch and talk, Dean replied "Fuck you." Golliday and a partner dragged Dean off the porch and arrested him forcefully with mace. Golliday wrote in his report, "None of this would have happened if he had talked to us with some respect."

Accused of resisting arrest, Dean beat the charge, claiming Golliday took him to a dark, deserted corner of Lloyd Center's parking garage to rough him up before taking him to jail. In court, Golliday said he took Dean to the garage merely to search him. Golliday denied Dean's claim that the cop said, "That's how we take care of things in Chicago," and that he was forced to leave his previous job because he "kicked too many little motherfuckers' assholes like you."

Golliday did not return calls. But Golliday's former boss, retired Pontiac Chief Don Schlosser, confirmed to WW that concern among fellow cops led to Golliday's departure. Said Schlosser, "His methods were not something we wanted to perpetuate in our community.""

Yeah, that DA was something else, wasn't she? I think the whole point Matt has been trying to make has nothing to do with the guilt or innocence of my son, but whether that female cop has any business being on the force after the many mistakes she has made. My son made a mistake, yeah, and fell in love with that crazy female that put him where he is today. Her, the DA, and probably the cop who shot my son were in cahoots, so my son sits in jail when he could be home with his family and getting help for the issues he does have, which isn't beating women. I say get the female he lived with out of Donald E Long, she has no business working in any kind of law setting. She should also be prosecuted for sleeping with my minor son, isn't that rape? Then get rid of the cop and the DA, and we might begin to have a justice system as apposed to an injustice system.

Thanks again, Matt and Dan.

We have some really terrific cops and politicians in this city, however we have a bad tenancy to try to cover-up mistakes when they happen. A culture of disclosure does not exist in Portland. Furthermore, I think that since many of our police officers do not deal with violent offenders on a daily basis as police do in other cities, some panic, jump-the-gun, or make careless mistakes in situations such as this one.