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Update in Taser complaint against police

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
Police oversight panel clings to wrong policy before critical vote in Taser case

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
Stunned: Matthew Klug and the 'pattern and practice' of police force

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
Portland Mayor Charlie Hales on climate change, homelessness

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
Why are so many members of a Portland police oversight board calling it quits?

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
Cops’ use of force: Why so few charges?

Oregon police officers are rarely held accountable for undue violence. Here are six possible reasons. Whenever police officers use lethal force, they well know there could be consequences, including being charged and prosecuted by the district attorney. C ...

9 Jun 2015 - Jason Renaud an...
Death by cop: Who’s at risk?

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...
Van Halen’s lesson for police reform

For a big act, each detail is crucial; same goes for Portland’s DOJ settlement Glam rock bad boys Van Halen included an odd item in their contract rider: a bowl of M&Ms, but no brown ones. A single brown M&M in the bowl, and the band wouldn’t play ...

12 Apr 2015 - Jason Renaud an...
Portland police training audit fails basic task on truth

Jenny Westberg and Jason Renaud from the Mental Health Association of Portland talk about the City Auditor's appraisal of the Portland Police Training Division The city auditor’s March 2015 appraisal of the Portland Police Training Division is devast ...

19 Mar 2015 - Jason Renaud an...
An impenetrable force: Reflecting on the Portland police union, past and present

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