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A Bill to Shield Police Identities is “Probably Not Going Anywhere,” After All
Todd Saucier Looks like the Oregon occupiers won’t be setting up shop in the state’s revised statutes after all. Senate Democratic leaders say they likely won’t address a bill that would allow law enforcement around the state to shield the identities of officers who are facing a credible threat to their lives. That bill, House […]
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Will a New Bill Designed to Protect Cops Reduce Transparency?
Todd Saucier A YEAR AGO, Facebook posts had Portland police on high alert. On the night of February 24, 2015, a man named Quintrell Holiman shot at two officers who’d tried to talk to him near an East Portland strip club. Holiman—26 years old, with gang affiliations and a federal arrest warrant—then fled, killing himself […]
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“We All Make Choices In Life”: Federal and County Authorities Just Gave Their First Briefing Since the Harney County Shootout
Being held in Multnomah County: Seven of eight people arrested yesterday Federal authorities aren’t offering many details on a traffic stop Tuesday that resulted in the death of one of the armed militants who’d occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge over the last three weeks, and the arrest of five more. In the first official […]
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Someone Shot Out a Trucker’s Tire on I-205 Last Night
ODOT Near the scene of the crime Hopefully this isn’t a new thing. Portland police are reporting a gunman in a “newer black SUV with tinted windows” pulled up alongside a semi truck on southbound I-205 near Division early this morning, and shot one of its tires out. That’s it, really. Cops have no idea […]
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Police Union Says Cops Have Little Faith In Chief Larry O’Dea, Demands More Officers
It’s hardly a controversial take these days that Portland has too few cops. Late last year, Mayor Charlie Hales convinced his city council colleagues to spend more than $500,000 hiring 11 new background checks investigators, which Hales said were needed to fill dozens of vacancies in the police bureau. Police Chief Larry O’Dea has been […]
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Cops Violated Protestors’ Constitutional Rights (Including a Merc Reporter) In 2014 “Kettling” Incident, A Citizen Panel Says
When riot-gear-clad Portland cops walled off a group of protestors in November 2014, insisting each of them was under arrest and forcing them into a downtown intersection, they violated the group’s rights. That was the conclusion, Wednesday, of the city’s Citizen Review Committee, after a bizarre and baroque hearing that laid bare tensions in Portland’s […]
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Portland Cop Taken Off The Street, Apparently For Saying He Had to “Babysit” Black Lives Matter Demonstrators
A Portland police officer has been assigned to desk duty after posting a tweet about upcoming Black Lives Matter protests slated for Thursday Friday in Portland. The Portland Police Bureau sent out a cryptic press release shortly before 5 pm, describing the situation in loose terms, but not identifying the officer or the controversial comments. […]
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Portland Police Shot A Man Friday Morning
Wikimedia Commons Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital Update, 7:27 pm: Police now say the armed man officers killed this morning fired two shots into the ground, then “a third round from his handgun towards police officers at the scene, resulting in two SERT officers shooting at and striking the suspect.” When the man, a 51-year-old whom […]
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Portland Police Lieutenants Are Letting Go Of The Controversial “48-Hour Rule.” Will Their Underlings Follow Suit?
Patrick Long One of the more controversial protections Portland cops get in their union contracts is about to be a moot point for the police bureau’s highest-ranked organized workers. City Council on Wednesday is scheduled to vote on a revised contract with the Portland Police Commanding Officers Association, which represents the city’s police lieutenants. Among […]
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It’s Budget Bump Season! Which City Bureaus Are Greediest This Time Around?
The Portland Police Bureau’s rank-and-file officers’ union has been catching flack for its billboards pushing for more cops in Portland. That’s partly fair, given the Portland Police Association’s tone-deaf move of putting put a billboard that says “Having More Police Matters” across the street from where a “Black Lives Matter” banner has sat for more […]
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Portland Cops Arrested A Woman Twice For the Same Crime. It May Cost You $12,500.
Tasha Moore, the FIRST time she was arrested Portland police may have done 22-year-old Tasha Jacqueline Moore a favor when they arrested her on charges of possessing meth and heroin in a January 27 traffic stop. By two days later, court records show Moore had enrolled in the county’s STOP court program, well regarded for […]