Cops

Questions about the Portland police’s upcoming body camera program were front and center during a hearing before a federal judge Tuesday, as the city and the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) continue to struggle over a policy agreement. The use of body cameras is a condition of the longstanding settlement agreement between the US Department of […]

After over 18 months of negotiation, the City of Portland and police union are unable to agree on whether officers should be able to review footage from body cameras before writing an incident report. After declaring an impasse earlier this week, the city and the Portland Police Association (PPA), the union representing rank-and-file officers, will […]

Brian Hunzeker, the Portland police officer responsible for leaking false information linking former city commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty to a 2021 hit-and-run, has been reinstated to his position with the Portland Police Bureau (PPB). While Hunzeker was originally fired in March 2022 for his involvement in the leak, a labor arbitrator from the Oregon Employee […]

Pushed to take action after a recent spate of gun violence near several Portland schools, leaders from Portland Public Schools (PPS), the Portland Police Bureau (PPB), the city of Portland, Multnomah County, and the Multnomah County District Attorney’s office held a press conference Friday to announce they are talking to each other about possible solutions. […]

In April 2021, Portland police officer Zachary DeLong fatally shot a man named Robert Delgado in Lents Park. Delgado, a homeless man who appeared to be experiencing a mental health crisis at the time, allegedly pointed a fake handgun at officers before he was killed. DeLong faced no criminal penalties for the shooting. A recent […]

A Multnomah County grand jury has ruled against charging Portland officer Joshua Dyk with a crime for fatally shooting a Portlander named Aaron Stanton in July. The ruling comes less than a week after a grand jury cleared another officer for killing a Portlander this past summer.  Stanton, 40, was allegedly firing a gun into […]

A Multnomah County grand jury has declined to file criminal charges against a Portland police officer who killed a man in July.  Shortly after midnight on July 24, Portland Police Bureau (PPB) officer Gelsomina “Mina” Cavalli-Singer and her partner responded to a 911 call alleging that a man and a woman were fighting in the […]

The Portland Police Bureau (PPB) has updated its internal policy on when the department releases the names of officers who use deadly force against members of the public—months after not adhering to the policy’s predecessor.  It’s long been PPB policy to release the name of an officer who uses deadly force against (ie: shoots a […]

The first federal lawsuit filed against the city of Portland for its officers’ actions against demonstrators during the city’s racial justice protests of 2020 has come to a close. On Monday, lawyers representing five demonstrators and the advocacy group Don’t Shoot Portland reached a $250,001 settlement with the city over a June 2020 lawsuit, which […]

Update, December 9:  The Portland Police Bureua (PPB) has identified the officer who shot Immanueal Jaquez Clark-Johnson as Christopher Sathoff. The bureau says that the Multnomah County District Attorney’s office is still reviewing the shooting and that Sathoff is currently on administrative leave.   Original story, November 25: A Black man named Immanueal Jaquez Clark-Johnson […]

Update, November 17:  The Multnomah County District Attorney’s office has cleared the deputy responsible for the October 5 shooting in Portland’s Lloyd neighborhood of any criminal charges.  Sheriff’s Deputy Rory McPherson was conducting a “routine patrol” of the Lloyd District the afternoon of October 5, during which he stopped a man named Tristan Borges he […]