Trading transparency for expediency is unacceptable Controversial changes to the city’s police accountability process will be examined during a special community forum Aug. 23, 2016. We all should be there. The event, hosted by the Albina Ministerial Alli ...
18 Aug 2016 - SR editorial board
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
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 2013, the city agreed to create a mental health center in its settlement with the Department of Justice over police use of force. Two years later, what that would look like is all still a matter of perspective. Local hospitals are going full steam ahea ...
7 May 2015 - Christen McCurdy
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...