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Jahn Teetsov More than a dozen activists headed downtown last January, protesting what they said was brutality by the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) during Donald Trump’s recent inauguration and calling for then-Police Chief Mike Marshman to get canned.  “I think it’s an important issue that’s absolutely worth standing up for,” said one woman who was […]

A damning new report suggests that’s because they’re not being trained.

Police found this stuff in the scooter of a man who attended a right-wing rally today in downtown Portland. Doug Brown ***Update*** Jay Bishop, the gun and knife-possessing man arrested today at the Patriot Prayer rally, was interviewed in June by freelance journalist Mike Bivins. He expressed his support for Jeremy Christian, an open white […]

Zachary Perkins MCSO Zack Perkins is a serial car thief. He’s now accused of being a repeat arsonist, booked for setting a fire in the Multnomah County Detention Center that sent two corrections deputies to the hospital just weeks after allegedly setting a stolen car on fire in Northeast Portland. Perkins, 27, is accused of—and […]

Good morning, Portland. Link time. Jade Sturms First up is this week’s feature, out in print as of yesterday, about a Portland entrepreneur helping people with online dating: “We are now in an era when a person’s app blurb and the quality of their photographs dictate social currency.” Portland Police Chief Danielle Outlaw was sworn […]

NASA Do you 1) like good local beer, and 2) think these so-called “scientists” are a bunch of lying assholes? Then Thursday is the day for you, as a flat earth Youtube star and local conspiracy theorists gather at a Southeast Portland brewery for an evening of beer drinking and and bonding over the belief […]

Chief Danielle Outlaw, right, was worn in on Monday Portland Police Bureau Danielle Outlaw, a 42-year-old former Deputy Chief of the Oakland Police Department, was sworn in on Monday as chief of the Portland Police Bureau. A rare outside hire, Outlaw is just the third woman, and first woman of color, to lead Oregon’s largest […]

Portland’s new police chief speaks about her priorities, commuting cops, and protest policing

Protesters outside of Portland’s ICE building in March Doug Brown ***Update*** ICE is bad at counting. The Oregonian is reporting today that four people—not 33—were arrested in Portland: Federal immigration officials on Friday retracted the number of arrests the agency claimed officers made in Portland during a nationwide operation targeting sanctuary cities. More than 15 […]

Good morning, Portland. Let’s hit these links. First up is this week’s feature, out in print as of yesterday (pick up a copy, too), by music writer Mo Troper about the Bi-Mart Willamette Country Music Festival: “For many country fans, the BMWCMF is paradise. As I make my way through security at the main gate, […]

Jason Sturgill For more than two weeks this month, the jail at the Multnomah County Justice Center was nearly inaccessible to defense attorneys looking to meet with clients, psychologists trying to evaluate the mental competency of the newly arrested, and family and friends hoping to visit locked-up loved ones. The visitors’ elevator at the jail […]

The militia-courting Multnomah County Republican Party is selling tickets to a raffle for a massive fucking gun to raise money for the group. Some lucky conservative is going to walk away with a “Smith & Wesson M&P Equipped with a Vortex Strikefire Red-Dot Site.” The rifle raffle was announced by the MCRP on September 14, […]