New evidence could influence decision to exonerate The Portland Police Bureau's error in supplying the Citizen Review Committee with the wrong set of protocols may have influenced its decision to exonerate one of the bureau’s officers. The officer ...
20 May 2016 - Emily Green
Committee that cleared Portland Police Bureau declined to look at the version of the rules Matthew Klug provided — the correct version Matthew Klug was justifiably frustrated, and you could hear it in his voice as he pleaded with the Citizen Review Commit ...
12 May 2016 - Emily Green
One man’s complaint against Portland police illustrates multiple system pitfalls Three years after the U.S. Department of Justice found Portland police had a “pattern and practice” of using excessive force, including unjustified stun gun use, against peop ...
17 Dec 2015 - Emily Green
Less than two weeks before hosting a West Coast summit of his peers, Portland’s mayor talks about the critical agenda items. Street Roots recently sat down with Portland Mayor Charlie Hales and talked about homelessness and climate change. Hales will be j ...
25 Nov 2015 - Israel Bayer
In the wake of the COAB chairman's resignation, a pattern of infighting, mistrust and general frustration with a lack of process emerged. UPDATE June 1, 2016: On the heels of Kathleen Saadat's resignation, COAB member and co-chair of the Mental ...
13 Oct 2015 - Emily Green
For more than 40 years in Portland, it has been people with mental illness For years, our organization, the Mental Health Association of Portland, has chronicled, eulogized and remembered persons who have been on the receiving end of Portland-area police ...
15 May 2015 - Jason Renaud an...
In the new documentary “ Arresting Power,” which premiered at the Northwest Film Center in January, there is a 1981 film clip of Portland police commissioner Charles Jordan in heated dialogue with outraged citizens protesting a blatant act of racial haras ...
24 Feb 2015 - Martha Gies
"Becky” was in a state of disbelief. One week ago she told her boyfriend she was pregnant. Now he was handing her a hat, insisting, Becky says, that she cover up the bleeding wound he had allegedly inflicted to the back of her head only moments earli ...
20 Jan 2015 - Emily Green
Law enforcement and police accountability advocates alike are warming to the idea of requiring officers to film their encounters with citizens – a trend that promises to profoundly change law enforcement. Proponents of the idea expect that equipping offic ...
3 Oct 2014 - Jake Thomas
Crouched in the trampled underbrush along the Springwater Corridor, Mike Davis pulls back a loose tent flap to reveal a quietly sobbing woman. “I don’t know what to do, Pastor Mike,” she says, shakily raising an unlit cigarette to her lips. “Can you help? ...
13 Mar 2014 - Alex Zielinski