Former Chief Larry O’Dea—apparently liked lying to investigators Ashley Anderson While employed as the city’s police chief, Larry O’Dea lied to city investigators looking into his conduct and committed other violations of city rules, two internal investigations have found. A letter [PDF] Mayor Ted Wheeler sent to O’Dea last month lays out five separate breaches […]
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City Council Just Demanded Early Statements from Cops After Shootings. Here Are Three Big Questions.
What a bizarre, fast-paced ride we’ve been on lately in regard to city policy after police shootings. At this point last month, most citizens assumed cops were being interviewed by internal police bureau investigators right after they used deadly force. That was, after all, a central promise of a police union contract last year. Then […]
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Portlanders Just Forced Changes to Contentious Police Oversight Proposals
But the Outcome Is Still Up in the Air
But the outcome is still up in the air.
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Angry Portlanders Have Forced Changes to Contentious Police Oversight Proposals. Here’s a Rundown
Sometimes outrage works. Last week, Portland City Council took up three proposed changes to police oversight in the city. As tends to happen with these things, most of those changes were met with derision from the public. During a marathon hearing lasting more than five hours, the council listened to person after person tearing the […]
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City Council Will Consider Killing the “48-Hour Rule”—Once Again—on Wednesday
Portland police investigate the officer-involved shooting of Quanice Hayes in February. Dirk VanderHart Portland police could press forward with immediately compelling statements from officers involved in shootings if a new proposal from Commissioner Nick Fish and Mayor Ted Wheeler is approved on Wednesday. The change, to be floated in a planned substitute ordinance [PDF], would […]
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East Portland Advocates Are Trying to Fill a Sudden Gap in Homeless Assistance
But Their Meal Services Are Angering Neighbors
But their meal services are angering neighbors.
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Hall Monitor: Slap Yourselves, Portland
Proposed Police Oversight Changes Are Hugely Important. So Wake Up!
Proposed police oversight changes are hugely important. So wake up!
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Transcripts Suggest 24-Year-Old Terrell Johnson Was In Crisis When He Was Killed May 10
The MAX bridge where Terell Johnson was shot on May 10. Google Samson Ajir was expecting Terrell Johnson to be armed well before he encountered, then killed, the man on May 10. The officer testified before a grand jury that as he was heading to the call about Johnson threatening people at an East Portland […]
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City Staffers Who Investigate Cops Might Finally Be Able to Recommend Discipline
It’s another quirk of Portland’s slapped-together system for police accountability: When internal affairs investigators at the Portland Police Bureau or staffers for the city’s Independent Police Review (IPR) conduct an investigation into alleged officer misdeeds, they’re not actually allowed to make a conclusion. Instead, the responsibility to recommend discipline in a case falls to the […]
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Why Didn’t Ted Wheeler Think to Mention that the Despised 48-Hour Rule for Cops Had Returned?
Dirk Vanderhart Let’s all take a minute to give it up for the Albina Ministerial Alliance Coalition (AMA). For more than a decade, the group has scrutinized the Portland Police Bureau (PPB), digging down into the minutiae of police policies and cranking out treatises on them with some regularity. And last week, coalition member Portland […]
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Hall Monitor: The Secret, Zombie 48-Hour Rule Lives!
Why Didn’t Ted Wheeler Think to Mention that a Despised Practice Had Returned?
Why didn’t Ted Wheeler think to mention that a despised practice had returned?
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Bait And Switch: The Cops’ “48-Hour Rule” Isn’t Dead. It’s Stronger Than Ever.
Demonstrators flood City Hall in protest of a new police union contract last October. A big part of that contract suddenly appears null and void. Dirk VanderHart Not that it did much to placate his ever-growing army of detractors, but it was a big deal last year when then-Mayor Charlie Hales succeeded in vanquishing the […]