COMMENTARY | Portland City Council has long been incurious about police oversight Over the past year we have heard a lot about Portland’s desperate need to hire more police officers. Due to an absolute lack of transparency, we don’t even know whether this ...
13 Oct 2016 - Jo Ann Hardesty
With its $1,000 admission price, exclusionary Meet the Heat event promotes narrow agenda, protesters say Attendees to a fundraiser at the Portland Police Training Center in Northeast Portland the morning of Friday, April 1, were greeted by a group of prot ...
8 Apr 2016 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot
Looking back on views and voices from our pages in the past year by Street Roots staff “We need a wider way to spread the conviction that moral ethics are really the basis of a happy life. This is true on an individual level as well as on a family, commun ...
8 Jan 2013 - Street Roots Staff
People will be talking about it: the police, the charter commission and the work to be done By Jake Thomas, Staff writer A common pattern often emerges after a citizen dies at the hands of police. There is public rage. The city promises reform, and then t ...
15 Mar 2012 - Street Roots