Tasers are supposed to be less-lethal weapons, but are cops using them increasingly as compliance tools?
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Irvine Welsh Gets All Moral about Pedophilia
Ray Lennox is back to oblivion—only now he’s saving 10-year-olds in Florida.
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Streetwalker Holiday
Neighbors Note Prostitution Spike Along 82nd
RECENTLY, neighbors in the Montavilla neighborhood have noticed a sharp increase in the number of sex workers along 82nd Avenue between SE Powell and NE Sandy. Most residents attribute the influx to one thing: the end of Portland’s Prostitute-Free Zones (PFZs). Together with Drug-Free Zones (DFZs), the “free zones” gave police the authority to “exclude” […]
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Good-Bye, Felony Flats
Southeast Residents Develop a “No-Tolerance Attitude”
“When I first started coming here, this neighborhood was more or less a meth capital. Methamphetamines were rampant, especially on 65th and Foster. “Right here, you could get meth,” Kenny Sadler said as he straddled his mountain bike and gestured to the intersection a few feet away. “You could get whatever you needed. It was […]
