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 ... ago, and epilepsy. In March, he filed a tort claim in U.S. District Court of Oregon, alleging police ...
17 Dec 2015 - Emily Green
Calls for greater police accountability There is a huge divide between law enforcement and a large ... government the opportunity to expand the surveillance and police powers and did away with many of the checks ... reported that Portland police began attaching these readers to their patrol cars in 2008.) A particularly ...
21 Jan 2016 - Emily Green
in some cases, lengthy jail sentences. Police departments across the nation began to increase ... Wilson suggested a new approach to policing they claimed effectively lowers crime rates. They called it ... “broken-windows theory” in an article they penned for The Atlantic Monthly in 1982. The theory is that if police ...
15 Apr 2016 - Emily Green
Prohibition and now sits on its board of directors. LEAP was founded in 2002 by five police officers in ... Medford, Mass., who, after a lifetime of police work, concluded the war on drugs was causing more harm than ... enforcement,” Fryklund said. “Former prosecutors, judges, police, probation officers who have seen the war on ...
24 Sep 2015 - Emily Green
according to Derek Reinke, senior management analyst at Portland’s Independent Police Review, only 19 ... Portland police in 2014. It’s a number, he says, that is pretty typical. To date, he says the commission ... disciplinary action. According to the Portland Police Bureau’s Discipline Guide (PDF), if an officer was found ...
10 Jul 2015 - Emily Green
decision point in the county’s criminal justice system, from initial police interaction to post-conviction ... difficult and rare for prosecutors to be held accountable,” he said. This is especially true when it comes ... innocence. “The Oregon Department of Justice, the Chiefs of Police, advocacy organizations and an unanimous ...
21 Apr 2016 - Emily Green
parties of Wall Street, parties of police abuse, parties of the status quo – you don’t have an election; ... media turns into headlines, so if there are a lot of police shootings, they spend a lot of time on that, ... If they give them an audit, the U.S. Governmental Accountability Office, they can’t get a blank ...
13 Oct 2016 - Emily Green
emergency and affordable housing. An additional $10 million in funding for the Emergency Housing Account and ... for a teacher, a nurse or a police officer that might be a victim of violence and is trying to move ...
29 Jan 2016 - Emily Green
Portland police arrested the soft-spoken sophomore at the Northeast Portland school the following morning. ... victim told his mother about the incident, and she phoned police. In response, the Multnomah County District ... are not held fully accountable for their actions well into their 20s, but research suggests black ...
4 Apr 2016 - Emily Green
a four-bedroom unit, and Zillow was taking every rental unit into account, from studio apartments to large ... somebody out there looking for them,” Neal said, adding that the involvement of child welfare, police and ...
5 Nov 2015 - Emily Green