Press release. More soon: Portland City Auditor to Hire Expert to Evaluate the Portland Police Bureau’s Handling of the James Chasse Investigation: Portland City Auditor LaVonne Griffin-Valade has announced plans to hire a nationally-recognized expert to evaluate how the Portland Police Bureau handled the internal investigation of the 2006 in-custody death of James Chasse, including […]
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Cops Raid Homeless Feed While Shooting Cops
Not content with crashing one of their police vehicles the other day—possibly while chatting with the camera crew in the back seat—Portland’s police raided a homeless feed with the crew of the TV show COPS on September 10, prompting Street Roots to have a well-justified cow: Shortly after 5 p.m. on Sept. 10, at the […]
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Cops Crash While Shooting Cops
News Release from: Portland Police BureauPORTLAND POLICE INVOLVED IN HEAD ON COLLISIONPosted: September 30th, 2009 11:58 AM The officer involved in this accident is Officer Jeffrey Ruppel. Officer Ruppel has been with the Portland Police Bureau for five years and is assigned to the afternoon shift at East Precinct. The driver of the other vehicle […]
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Council Accused Of “Impunity” On Chasse—Given 7 Actions To “Begin Rebuilding”
The Portland Police Association has hired the same public relations firm as Merritt Paulson did for Major League Soccer, just in time to deal with the fallout from the cover-up inquiry into James Chasse jr’s death. Greg Peden and Shannon Berg from Gallatin Public Affairs were in council this morning with PPA boss Scott Westerman […]
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Colbert On Tasers
It all starts about five minutes in. You can read the Mercury‘s coverage of the so-called “less lethal” weapons here.
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Breaking: Chasse Sergeant To Be Suspended
Police Chief Rosie Sizer has released the findings of an internal review of the 2006 death of James Chasse—a man suffering with schizophrenia—this morning, finding barely any wrongdoing by her officers apart from Sergeant Kyle Nice, at the scene, who failed to follow the bureau’s directives on transporting a subject to hospital in certain situations […]
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We Live in the Future.
Photo courtesy TriMet’s Friday night foie gras fig newton Green Line gala:
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Racial Profiling? Putting the heat on HEAT
Are Portland’s gang enforcement police officers legitimately targeting gang members, or sweeping up young black men for “doing fifty-five in a fifty-four,” as Jay Z and criminal defender Chris O’Connor assert? Much has been reported in the Mercury about how the police bureau’s gang enforcement efforts might bring about racial profiling. But I decided to […]
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Crockett. Tubbs. Kundera. Truth.
From Slaughterhouse 90210, via the Los Angeles Times.
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Hope, Disappointment, Business Cards: Cops Release New Racial Profiling Plan
The final version may now be two and a half years late, following the release of a draft back in January, but Police Chief Rosie Sizer finally delivered her “plan to address racial profiling” to city council this morning. The mayor cited the President’s recent “beer summit” on the issue at the White House as […]
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Sheriff Skipper May Be Out of Time to Get Certification
Not even a year into his term, Sheriff Bob Skipper may have to step down as Multnomah County Sheriff. After twice failing the police certification test, he requested temporary certification to gain more time, which the state denied yesterday. In the State Department of Public Safety Standards and Training’s (DPSST) letter to Skipper, Deputy Director […]