Most gang members aren't even old enough to get into venues. Not sure why PPB thinks they can stifle gang violence by profiling at 21 and older hip hop shows

So, if transparency is a problem for the PPB, who should be held accountable?

This has been going down for many many years because they've(PPB) accused a friend of mine, who is a promoter, of all kinds of things to owners trying to make them shut shows down even to the point of threats to revoke liquor licenses. I believe willamette weekly did an article years back including emails of city officials targeting certain clubs and venues.

A convenience store was a target of Portland police, employing out-of-policy tactics to prohibit sales of items available in a neighboring Safeway. We know PPB is pressuring businesses owned by people of color. The Auditor and her IPRD are intellectually incurious about racial profiling. Lack of transparency or investigative zeal leaves unanswered many questions about the rollout of ID scanners, and whatever pressure PPB employed on club owners to adopt these surveillance tools later deemed to have been illegal. Funding for the scanners emanated with Lines for Life, ostensibly an anti-suicide non-profit run by former Federal Attorney for Oregon, Dwight Holden. Anti-gang funding also emanates from County Health; as the plea deal with the DoJ ramps up police involvement in assessing health care and predictive intervention on this protected class, more needs to be done to assess threats to black cultural aspirations from all reinforcers of repression. Taking a racial analysis will pay civil liberties dividends in society as a whole ... once the IPRD is replaced with a civilian-based police accountability authority with the power and intention of taking responsibility for inaction by the City's Human Rights Commission.