note: This story discusses domestic violence. An investigation shows the Portland Police Bureau wrongly ... early 2022.” According to the report, when the woman was 17, she filed a police report after her older ... and reviewed the police report, finding it showed “the woman’s aunt witnessed the assault, and that ...
21 Jun 2023 - Piper McDaniel
Police Association held up the agreement, pushing for the ability to pre-review footage on body-worn ... Portland has paid over $2.8 million resolving police use of force lawsuits and claims stemming from the ... racial justice protests that roiled the city in 2020. The Minneapolis police murder of George Floyd ...
5 Apr 2023 - Piper McDaniel
these goals. “Staffing dramatically affects our ability to engage in effective community policing ... police. While this rise is part of a nationwide spike in violent crime, including rising homicides and gun ... crime spike. But two years after an initial push to defund the Portland Police Bureau, City Council ...
3 Aug 2022 - Piper McDaniel
September 11, 2001, justified by government claims that the police needed to strengthen their ability to ... U.S. defense spending and the resulting militarization of our nation’s police forces dwarf ... unarmed Black Americans by police has fueled a growing national movement for slashing police budgets, ...
6 Aug 2020 - Martin Hart-Lan...
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 for justice for Black lives and police ...
15 Aug 2020 - Street Roots Staff
in the Portland police — real independent oversight including civilian ability to remove officers ... 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 empowered police review board and bring ...
7 Oct 2020 - The Mental Heal...
write a contract that says you will never use police, but I feel like they would want the ability to ... health crises as a criminal matter, police remain deeply embedded in a county-funded program that ... the community. Project Respond is often touted as an alternative to police response in situations ...
3 May 2019 - Emily Green
coming from African-Americans The Independent Police Review’s Annual Report shows community members filed ... 435 complaints against Portland police in 2016. It’s the highest number of complaints the agency ... charged with police oversight has processed in eight years. When Portlanders take issue with the behavior ...
25 May 2017 - Emily Green
Council lessened her ability to do that in a follow-up ordinance. I don’t think it’s police that should be ... 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 ...
15 Mar 2012 - Street Roots
racial profiling or to hold the Portland Police Bureau accountable to its residents. FURTHER READING: ... wrong person or group, and there goes your ability to raise money and to have the political capital to ... the environment to early childhood education, from tax reform to police accountability, from ...
25 Aug 2016 - Israel Bayer