Police chief promises racial profiling plan by mid-October.
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Members of the community campaign to end racial profiling delivered a petition and signatures to the mayor’s office on Monday, May 19, demanding action on the issue. The police chief was supposed to have a plan presented to the mayor’s racial profiling group by the end of 2007, but so far, all that’s been seen […]
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ACTIVIST GROUP Oregon Action plans to present a petition to Police Chief Rosie Sizer next Monday, May 19, signed by more than 600 “concerned community members” who think the police bureau has been too slow to take action on racial profiling. The presentation of the petition will mark the two-year anniversary of the first listening […]
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Racial Profiling Committee Hits Stalemate
The mayor’s racial profiling committee seems to be reaching a stalemate after the police union hired a statistical consultant who says there’s no proof cops are engaging in the practice. There has been much talk over issues such as whether racial profiling exists, but little action on what to do about it since the committee […]
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Does City’s “Livability” List Have Racial Imbalance?
The city’s effective replacement for the now-defunct Drug-Free Zones (DFZs) appears to be targeting black people for harsher treatment by the judicial system—just as the DFZs did. Of the 408 people now on the city’s Neighborhood Livability Crime Enforcement Offender List (NLCEOL)—a list used to determine who is diverted into a city program that couples […]
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RACIAL PROFILING DIVISION Cop union boss Robert King is frustrated over an apparent reluctance in the mayor’s racial profiling committee to let him present a new report that suggests Portland isn’t collecting enough data to be able to tell whether or not cops are racial profiling. The report, by Brian Withrow, a criminologist at Wichita […]