The District Attorney’s office has declined to prosecute Portland Police Officer Christopher Humphreys in light of enhanced audio released from the downtown jail last November, according to a statement put out this afternoon by Police Chief Rosie Sizer. CHASSE: BEING BOUGHT INTO JAIL IN SEPTEMBER 2006… The video, taken in the booking area of the […]
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Yep, We Just Lost Two Police Precincts
Mayor Sam Adams had to be across the street from city hall at 1:30 to launch the city’s new electric car plug-in station. So he didn’t have a great deal of time to hear Commissioner Dan Saltzman’s proposal to shutter the Portland Police Bureau’s North and Southeast precincts, when the resolution came before council at, […]
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Cops Settle Intimate Search Suit for $7,900
Last September we ran this story on intimate search policies by Portland police officers, in which officers appeared to have no problem conducting intimate so-called “inventory searches” on suspects in the street: “You’ve noticed that they have drugs there,” the cops’ public information officer, Cathe Kent, told the Mercury when asked about exposing suspects to […]
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Minnesota Knife-Wielders vs. Cops… WHO YA GOT?!?
While regular citizens, such as ourselves, consider pocket-knives and swords a useful deterrent in the war on crime, they can also be the cops’ worst enemy—especially when they are in the hands of a Corvette driver from Minnesota. That’s why this training video from Everything is Terrible is perfect for “Please Don’t Threaten an Officer […]
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Not Exactly Imaginative
These were being distributed downtown on the weekend. While I understand the frustration the creators are evidently feeling, I can’t help but be disappointed with the lack of creativity. Swastikas on their heads? “Revolutions don’t happen by themselves?” No. They require energy, coordination, and presumably, the ability to communicate to the masses without losing their […]
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Sizer Presents Profiling Plan To Community
Police Chief Rosie Sizer was at the East Portland Community Center on SE 106th ave last night to present her racial profiling plan to the community and get feedback on it. SIZER: TALKS TO KATU ABOUT THE PLAN… “It really is not just building a relationship with the community but about building trust,” Sizer told […]
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ACLU Compares Secret List Cops To Nazis
UPDATE, 6:34pm:From Mr.Rosenthal: Matt — I am very disappointed in the headline and first sentence of your blog, and request that you issue an apology to me and Officer Myers. I did not compare Officer Myers to the Gestapo. You accurately quoted me in your blog, I related in court that I told the Oregonian […]
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Report Pushes Cops For Taser Restrictions
A new report by Los Angeles consultants is pushing the Portland Police Bureau to place restrictions on officers’ use of Tasers and other less lethal weapons. The report says cops should use “only the minimum number of cycles necessary to place the subject in custody,” and that the bureau should “strongly advices officers against using […]
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Saltzman Still Likes Sit/Lie Law
Police Commissioner Dan Saltzman has responded to news last week of a judge finding the controversial sidewalk obstruction law unconstitutional. “I think we’re still reviewing that decision and it would be inappropriate for me to comment on the specific case,” Saltzman says. “But in the larger sense, I did support the sidewalk obstruction ordinance, I […]
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Council To Pay More Than $100k To Pervocop Victims
City council is scheduled to vote on Wednesday to pay out $105,205 to Breanna Wyatt and Kaitlin Johnson, two women who were alleged to have been sexually harassed by former Portland cop John Wood. PERVOCOP: LIKE ROBOCOP, ONLY PERVERTED, NOT ROBOTIC…AND…AN OCTOPUS… Wood, who resigned from the police bureau in November, 2006, is alleged to […]
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Judge Rules Sit/Lie Law Unconstitutional
A downtown judge has ruled the city’s controversial sidewalk obstruction ordinance unconstitutional. Judge Michael McShane made the ruling yesterday about the part of the ordinance that requires people to keep their personal belongings within two feet. “I found that an ordinary person would not understand from the statute that mundane and everyday behavior would be […]
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Jury’s Out on Rev. Phil Taser Case
Originally posted 12:10PM, moved up to now with the verdict! One night last June, Portland bike activist Phil Sano was stopped by police for not having a bike light and wound up on the ground, tasered five times and cited for resisting arrest. Today, the jury heard the closing statements in the case against him. […]