News Mar 18, 2010 at 4:00 am

Randy Leonard Takes on Police Oversight

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Mary-Beth's right. We got the ball rolling in October - http://tinyurl.com/y8sgoyt
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Perhaps Duin is suggesting that if one of us, or several of us are killed that our use of deadly force would be more acceptable. Perhaps others in the community believe the same thing.

I don’t believe it and I’m not willing for that to happen to change the minds of Steve Duin or anyone else.

Surviving the shift and going home at the end of the night is your number one priority.








Randy Leonard, the next mayor of Portland, and the pro-tem mayor now(just ask him) WAS told about a project that was being proposed to assist all "first responders" that may receive a call for service to all elements of those that may go to a "PSRB" CRIMINALLY INSANE GROUP HOME in the city of Portland, Oregon.

These locations are in the city, they are not on the "radar" of information given to officers, firemen, etc if the call over the computer is made to the location.


I have been calling for this action, for a number of yrs, I will provide 3 noted articles regarding these CRIMINALLY INSANE patients.



1. Washington County sheriff's deputies went door to door in Corneilus on Friday to notify 1,300 residents of criminally insane sex offenders living within a half-mile of their homes.

Sgt. David Thompson, spokesman for the sheriff's office, said three of the eight residents at Connell House, a locked residential treatment facility at 117 N. 29th Ave., were dangerous sex offenders who'd been found to be guilty "except for insanity" at trial. One had assaulted a 3-year-old child.



2. Just before Christmas 1994, 27-year-old Perez suffered a violent break. He had been unable to sleep since his release from the hospital two days prior. His mother told police she felt sorry for him: "He looked anxious and nervous and scared."

She was cooking breakfast when he attacked. Perez punched his mother, cut her and bit off four of her fingers. She thought he was hallucinating. "He'd never done something like that before," she said in a police report.

Later, Perez asked a Woodburn policeman to "shoot him" and "tell the other officers that he tried to get away."

He was found guilty except for insanity of attempted murder and assault. Instead of prison, the court placed him under the jurisdiction of Oregon's Psychiatric Security Review Board for a maximum of 40 years.



3.When they arrived, officers found 40-year-old Sean Liam Kelly severely injured across the street, who appeared to have been stabbed. Kelly died a short time later.

Later Tuesday, homicide detectives charged Ralph Anthony Williams with one count of first-degree murder in the death. Williams and the victim both lived at a mental health group home at the address but had separate rooms.


The James Chasse case, stands for what it is.....a terrible wrong, and while many fingers will be pointed, the mental health community has purposely refused to separate the mentally ill( James Chasse) from the violent..violence of the criminally insane.

First responders...NEED ALL AVAILABLE INFORMATION to assist those there in need, and to protect those that go to render aid by protecting themselves.

Many times...this support was asked for by myself, because as a citizen, I KNOW, more about it then some who are supposed to know, and get paid well to do so.

Sheriff Rob Gordon of Washington County, and county Commissioner John Lindsey will write an OP-ED,that a the very least,will call for this information to be given to all who would benefit from it.

For to long, as an activist( I hate that cover word) more inline would be husband, now grandfather, want those who do that first work to have all they need to do it, and until these two good officials became involved and concerned...my pleas for help with my own officials have fallen on "death ears".

Sent a letter to Randy Leonard asking for support...directly...NO RESPONSE...A STAFFER RESPONDED...answer NO! one word.....no

People who WERE are running for city hall Jason Renund(a supposed mental health activist) he was asked to get behind this project....no answer... SCOTT WESTERMAN..PPB union president NO RESPONSE EVER.

I have polled personally many, many PPB officers...some contacted 2 blocks from where we stood from the PSRB group home in SE, They had no idea...no clue to the nature of the possible threat to them. they were not happy..their managers refused to give them that field support.

Bottomline: As a young cop. or a veteran....they know, they cannot look now, to these people to protect them, they must work for Rob Gordon, in Washington county, or Commissioner John Linn, clear down in Linn county.

It tell's me a lot....Randy Leonard has bike paths to vote for..140,O00 dollar toilets to build, and cares nothing..for the safety of those he once worked with...Stay off burning roofs Randy, your not welcome there anymore.

Jack Peek



PS: Left out,but got same response or had issue tabled for two yrs by Rep, Ben Cannon, Sen Jackie Dingfelder...and many others in city..county./.or state offices...SAD...SICK...NO EXCUSE!

The current "so-called leader at City hall of the PPB..Dan("trees have feelings")Saltzman promised me help if I voted for him....like RANDY....DAN....NICK...the mayor knew personally of this issue as Chief of staff way back when...and is as worthless as he was then.

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