[What follows is part two of a five-part series on the progress Portland has made on police reform over the past year. Read the rest here.—eds] The beginning of last year’s protests coincided with City Council’s deliberations on the city budget, a vote that determines Portland Police Bureau’s (PPB) funding for the year. Of the […]
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A Year After Protests Began, What’s Changed in Portland Policing?
The crowd reached downtown just before midnight on May 29, 2020, moving as a buzzing mass of energy and outrage through North Portland and across the Willamette River. When the hundreds of marchers turned down SW Main from 4th Ave. toward the Multnomah County Justice Center, where a few dozen protesters waited to meet them, […]
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OUTCOMES: The results of the past year’s policing
[What follows is part four of a five-part series on the progress Portland has made on police reform over the past year. Read the rest here.—eds] Despite months of sustained protests against police brutality, Portland has witnessed its own surge in police violence in the past year. According to the Portland Police Bureau’s (PPB’s) own […]
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POLICIES: New and proposed rules regulating police work
[What follows is part three of a five-part series on the progress Portland has made on police reform over the past year. Read the rest here.—eds] After the June 2020 budget vote, Wheeler released his own “19-point police reform action plan,” detailing ways his office will improve and adjust policing in Portland. A number of […]
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OUTLOOK: What’s next for police reforms and protests?
[What follows is part five of a five-part series on the progress Portland has made on police reform over the past year. Read the rest here.—eds] The movement that kicked local police reform efforts into gear last May is far from over. For many activists who invested months into organizing in 2020, the past year’s […]