Are body-worn cameras a remedy to police use of force or a really expensive way to record police assaults? In response to police violence against protestors in the summer of 2020 and the murder of George Floyd, the United States Department of Justice prop ...
28 Feb 2022 - Ariel Stone and Amanda Marshall
Take the Portland Street Response program out of the police union contact In June, amid immense public outcry surrounding the death of George Floyd and other Black Americans who have died at the hands of police, the Street Roots Editorial Board called for ...
17 Mar 2021 - SR editorial board
Since Aaron Campbell’s death, at least 20 people with mental health or substance problems have been killed by Portland police. Say their names. Members of the Mental Health Alliance will vote YES on Portland City Ballot Measure 26-217 to form a new and em ...
7 Oct 2020 - The Mental Heal...
Adam Allen was walking home from a bar when police knocked him down in North Portland, says tort claim Adam Allen had just moved back to Portland after spending five years on the East Coast when he decided to meet an old friend for a drink on Aug. 9. He h ...
19 Aug 2020 - Christen McCurdy
Street Roots asked the new head of Portland Police Bureau about police oversight, protest response, gun violence and more Portland’s new chief of police has had no shortage of media attention. Following the police killing of George Floyd, protests calling ...
15 Aug 2020 - Street Roots Staff
U.S. defense spending and the resulting militarization of our nation’s police forces dwarf investments in actual needs, such as housing and social services The excessive use of force and killings of unarmed Black Americans by police has fueled a growing n ...
6 Aug 2020 - Martin Hart-Lan...
A heavy reliance on law enforcement is a departure from the original intent of the Multnomah County-funded Project Respond Despite Multnomah County leadership’s efforts to steer away from treating mental health crises as a criminal matter, police remain d ...
3 May 2019 - Emily Green
Advocates call for competitive bidding and cultural diversity in the selection of the specialist who evaluates police recruits Advocates for police accountability and for Portland’s African-American community are once again asking the city of Portland and ...
30 Nov 2018 - Amanda Waldroupe
COMMENTARY | Resources should go to housing, mental health and addiction treatment outside of the criminal justice system Trump’s new zero-tolerance policy for immigrants is based on the idea that if a law exists it must be enforced 100 percent. In contra ...
6 Jul 2018 - Elliott Young a...
COMMENTARY | We should be turning away from ineffective and often deadly responses that place people in unfit institutions, such as jail or hospitals May is mental health awareness month, a time to consider one’s own mental health, the health of others, a ...
27 Apr 2018 - Meredith Mathis and Jason Renaud