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Portland’s Paying $90K to a Teen Police Beat, Arrested in 2014
It’s purely coincidence, but worth noting nonetheless: The same day the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) took the very rare step of proactively releasing police reports surrounding a controversial arrest yesterday, the city agreed to pay out $90,000 to a victim of police abuse from the last time the PPB took such an approach (or at […]
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Why Are Cops So Displeased with Their New $12.6 Million Crime Reporting System?
IN CLARK COUNTY, Washington, it became known as the “RegJIN effect.” Sheriff’s deputies just north of the Columbia River had been told for years to expect a game-changing crime reporting system that would allow them to seamlessly share information with pretty much every law enforcement agency in the region. And that system—the Regional Justice Information […]
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A Controversial Portland Cop Improperly Spied on Her Former Stepdaughter
That Should Have Been Grounds For Firing. It Wasn’t
That should have been grounds for firing. It wasn’t.
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Portland Cops Have Issues With Their New Crime Reporting Software
That Should Surprise No One
That should surprise no one.
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A Local Man Is Asking Portlanders to Give to Cops, Following Protests
Police wall off demonstrators from an Interstate 5 on ramp on Thursday, November 10. When self-identified anarchists began taking bats and clubs to Pearl District windows on Thursday night, local activists had no problem corralling cash to help pay for at least some of the damage. Portland’s Resistance, the group that began the march that […]
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Portland Police Needed a TriMet Bus For All the Demonstrators They Arrested on Saturday Night
Portland Police Bureau When Mayor Charlie Hales and Police Chief Mike Marshman implored anti-Trump demonstrators to stay home Saturday night, they warned that cops would be more aggressive than they’d been during the past three nights’ protests. You could see that immediately Saturday evening, when protesters predictably ignored the warning and gathered at Pioneer Courthouse […]
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“Please Stay Home Tonight,” Portland Mayor and Police Chief Tell Demonstrators
Police Sgt. Pete Simpson, Chief Mike Marshman, and Mayor Charlie Hales address reporters this afternoon. Dirk VanderHart It’s official: Mayor Charlie Hales and Police Chief Mike Marshman are done with anti-Donald Trump protests. On Friday afternoon, Hales and Marshman called reporters to City Hall to decry rioting and property damage that had occurred in an […]
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Cops Arrested 17 Anti-Trump Demonstrators Friday Night—And Four More In Connection With A Shooting
Dirk VanderHart Portland police officials had clearly made up their mind after Thursday’s rioting: They weren’t going to give anti-Trump demonstrators an inch on Friday. So as hundreds of people at a low-key community-building event put on by the new group Portland’s Resistance began to spill into SW 4th in front of City Hall, an […]
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Has Portland’s Citizen-Based Police Reform Effort Been Abandoned? Participants Say So.
THE CITIZEN BOARD helping reform Portland’s police force got out of a two-month timeout last week to find it had been stood up. Membership of the COAB (Community Oversight Advisory Board) had already dwindled to roughly half its intended 15-person strength—and just five appeared in person at last Thursday’s meeting. Not a one of the […]
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Portland’s Police Reform Effort Has a Problem
Its Citizen Advisers Say They’ve Been Abandoned
Its citizen advisers say they’ve been abandoned.
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Don’t Shoot Portland Protestors and Bundy Clan Fans Briefly Squared Off Downtown This Afternoon
This flag caused some trouble. Doug Brown Perhaps it was inevitable. Don’t Shoot Portland demonstrators protesting police abuses briefly squared off with Oregon Occupier supporters still feeling high off the acquittals of the Bundy gang in front of Portland’s Justice Center this afternoon. The altercation brewed after members of Don’t Shoot marched from Portland State […]