Those guys aren’t usually standing there. Dirk VanderHart Portland City Hall is on alert this morning, as City Council prepares to take up a new contract with the city’s largest police union. Cops are standing guard, city commissioners’ offices are all locked at the advice of security, and council chambers are nearing capacity. The tension […]
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Portlanders Just Got Their First Look at a Police Body Cam Policy
Here Are Four Things You Need to Know About it
Here are four things you need to know about it.
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Hall Monitor: A Police Reform Lube Job
Everyone Seems to Dislike a New Police Union Contract. It’ll Pass Anyway.
Everyone seems to dislike a new police union contract. It’ll pass anyway.
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The City Auditor Is Knocking a New Police Contract, But Mayor Charlie Hales Is Pushing Forward
A banner outside Portland City Hall last week, as City Council took up a new police contract Dirk VanderHart Activists and local civil rights organizations aren’t the only ones asking Mayor Charlie Hales and the rest of Portland City Council to put off a new contract with police. Following a highly charged hearing last week—in […]
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Cops Love Their New Union Contract. Police Oversight Advocates? Not So Much
Portland police officers have never loved a union contract like they love the one Portland CIty Council took up this morning. According to Portland Police Association President Daryl Turner, the union’s membership ratified the contract terms with more than 95 percent last night. Not only that, but 91 percent of the union’s membership showed up […]
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Hall Monitor—The True Price of Hales’ Police Deal
City Council Supports Spending $6.8 Million for Cops, but It’ll Cost You More.
City Council supports spending $6.8 million for cops, but it’ll cost you more.
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Police Say Three Children Were Pepper Sprayed, Called a Racial Epithet
The block where the assault occurred. Google Street View A black Portland family says they were accosted in Northeast Portland this week by a cyclist who used a racial slur as he shot pepper spray at three children. The incident near NE Killingsworth and 9th, details of which have been circulating on social media, was […]
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City Council Will Soon Vote on Changes to Portland’s Police Oversight System
They Won’t Be as Drastic as Originally Proposed
They won’t be as drastic as originally proposed.
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Mayor Charlie Hales Says He’s Got Support to End the 48-Hour Rule And Increase Police Pay
MAYOR CHARLIE HALES has found outright victories sometimes hard to come by during his four years at the helm. Time and again, high-profile policy proposals—a “street fee,” a raise on business taxes, a new stance on homeless camping, a demolition tax—have been beaten back by his colleagues’ concerns, or the public’s ire, or both. This […]
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Today in Stupid: Giuliani Says He’s Saved More Black Lives Than Beyoncé
Rudy Giuliani was on Fox & Friends this morning to discuss, among other things, Trump’s moving-target immigration position. The panel also touches on Beyoncé’s performance last night at the VMAs, a performance Giuliani called “a shame.” What’s causing the consternation of the Fox & Friends crew is a vignette from the pop star’s breathtaking and […]
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The City Might Not Wall Off Police Discipline Appeal Hearings, After All
There are potentially big changes coming to Portland’s police oversight process next month. But, at least for now, the system won’t be sealed off from public scrutiny as many had feared. Portland’s City Auditor Mary Hull Caballero—who oversees the city’s Independent Police Review (IPR)—today released a number of proposed code changes she’s asking Portland City […]