“Litigation is not the answer” for police accountability,
Raymond Gwerder
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Will They Ever Learn?
Report on Cop Shooting Investigations Finds “Room for Improvement”
An outside look at police shooting investigations finds “room for improvement.”
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In Other News
An audit raps the cops, Randy Leonard irks activists, and teachers won’t be fired.
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The Accidental Chief
Mike Reese Didn’t Grow Up Dreaming He’d Be a Cop. But he’s the guy who just led Portland’s police force through its most “tumultuous” year in memory. We talk shootings, mental health, and Tasers—and how next year might be better.
A man who never dreamed he’d be a cop just led the Portland Police Bureau through a “tumultuous” year.
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What’s Supposed to Happen
Suspect in Cop Shootings Lives to See Day in Court
Man charged with shooting cops doesn’t wind up shot himself.
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Promoting an Outcry
Cops Familiar with Controversy Move on Up
Leo Besner wasn’t the only recently promoted Portland police officer with a curious record to win a new badge.
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In Other News
News briefs: comforting, much like the crumbly butter cookies served at nursing homes and 12-step meetings.
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Damage Control
City Shells out $500,000 for Police Sniper Victim
The City of Portland is likely to pay a record $500,000 to the family of Raymond Gwerder this week—a man shot in the back without warning by a police sniper while he was on the phone to a hostage negotiator in November 2005. The news broke in a press release sent out last Thursday, November […]