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Police Plan News Release on Shooting for 11:30 AM
My conversation with a police spokesman just now turned up absolutely no new information about yesterday’s shooting except that the police are pounding out a press release which will be sent out at 11:30 AM at that time. Chief Rosie Sizer will be “reading a statement” about the shooting downtown at the justice center. They […]
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BREAKING: Anti-Police Protest Draws 50, Takes Over Burnside in March to Cop Shop
Between 50-100 Portlanders marched tonight in protest of today’s fatal police shooting, temporarily closing down East Burnside and breaking an ATM and Starbucks window before peacefully dispersing. Smashed ATM on E Burnside Police and Commissioner Saltzman have not released any more details about the incident at Hoyt Arboretum in which an officer responded to a […]
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BREAKING: Police Shoot Man at Hoyt Arboretum
Original post, 4:00 PM:Let’s hope this is not a case of “here we go again.” This announcement just came from the Portland Police: At 3:05 p.m., Portland Police Officers responded to the Hoyt Arboretum on a call of a disturbance in the area of the park. Officers made contact with a subject and it has […]
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Handsome Jack and the Police Evidence Room
One adventure that did not make it into this week’s story about the Recyclery: checking out the hundreds of lost, stolen and confiscated bikes in the Portland police’s property and evidence warehouse. The police warehouse is at the end of a long driveway that snakes through a construction site in industrial Northwest. Photographer Minh Tran […]
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Saltzman On Think Out Softball Loud Today: The One Question He Needs To Answer
Police Commissioner Dan Saltzman will be on OPB’s Think Out Loud this morning at 9am, along with the director of the Independent Police Review, Mary-Beth Baptista, and Copwatch activist Dan Handelman. I’ll be listening, and doing a softball watch here on Blogtown, like I did when the police chief went on the show in early […]
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Reforming The Independent Police Review: “We’ll go to weddings, Bat Mitzvahs, anything…”
City Commissioner Randy Leonard and City Auditor Lavonne Griffin-Valade are proposing an ordinance—to be discussed on Thursday, to reform the city’s Independent Police Review and make it more powerful. The IPR is doing its best to do strong public outreach on the proposal, too: You can show up at city hall tomorrow night at 5:30, […]
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City’s Cop Hearing: “People don’t trust the police because they don’t know any.”
“Right now is a very difficult time in our community. People are hurt, they feel angry and confused. They want changes in how the police do business,” said Citizens’ Review Committee chair Michael Bigham, introducing a meeting to hear community concerns about the police at Hoffman Hall on the Portland State University campus this afternoon. […]
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Public Meeting To Express Cop Concerns Today
ILLUSTRATION BY JESSE REKLAW As usual the outreach has been pretty lousy, but I’m going to be there in 2 hours, and so can you. Seriously, drop what you’re doing and call a few people. This is a big chance for the community to air its concerns on police reform issues: Citizen Review Committee (CRC) […]
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Bad Apple Humphreys: State Drops Case
The District Attorney’s office has dropped charges against Lisa Coppock, a woman with mental health problems who is alleging she was beaten up while being arrested by Officer Christopher Humphreys—the cop at the heart of the beanbag girl incident and the death of James Chasse. ILLUSTRATION BY BRETT SUPERSTAR HUMPHREYS: BAD APPLE REPUTATION “It’s been […]
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Police Union Wants To Close Contract Meeting
The Portland Police Union doesn’t want the public to attend its contract negotiations with the city, which began this morning at 9am in a room inside the Portland building. The negotiations are held every four years to discuss things like how officers can be disciplined. The city announced on January 25, four days before the […]
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Ex-Cop Complains About Cops
Here’s an odd one. Retired Portland Police Bureau Sergeant Kelly Krohn has been appearing before the City of Portland’s Citizens’ Review Committee this evening, along with his son Jason, who is alleging that an inquiry into his manhandling by Portland police officers was botched. KELLY AND JASON KROHN (LEFT), OFFICER RALPH ELWOOD (SEATED, RIGHT) Krohn’s […]