negotiations. Changes to the police union contract will improve accountability, transparency and community ... confidence in both police and city hall. Candidates for mayor can improve accountability now by pledging to ... wanted Ron Frashour fired. So did the current mayor, Charlie Hales. So did former Chief of Police Michael ...
7 Jan 2016 - Jason Renaud an...
Oregon police officers are rarely held accountable for undue violence. Here are six possible ... harmed by police and seek accountability, are barred. In fact, it’s all of the above. For the Portland ... Police Bureau, the checks and balances of accountability comprise, by our count, 30 distinct levels of ...
9 Jun 2015 - Jason Renaud an...
The Portland Police Bureau recently made a stunning and unprecedented discovery — but, sadly, no ... Sometimes, the right police action is no action at all. After a disastrous decade of using excessive force ... to take in a variety of gray areas. The way the police ought to help someone in a mental health ...
19 Jan 2015 - Jason Renaud an...
mayor agree with me. Sam, you have, by leaving the issue of police oversight and accountability in the ... still speak openly and forthrightly about how to keep the police bureau accountable and therefore ... Take the police out of crisis intervention business From the current edition of Street Roots Sam ...
10 Mar 2010 - Street Roots
parts of the police accountability system. The media — high and low — is a big part of this problem. ... have been on the receiving end of Portland-area police violence. Today we’re sharing these names with ... by then-Portland Police Officer Steven Sims. The story does not fit with any pattern found elsewhere ...
15 May 2015 - Jason Renaud an...
police of unarmed citizens in crisis By Israel Bayer Staff Writer Jason Renaud had been an advocate for ... James Chasse was killed at the hands of police officers in 2006. Chasse, who lived with schizophrenia, ... toward addressing the actions and oversight of police officers, particularly as they interface with ...
18 Feb 2010 - Street Roots
Portland, advocates are closely monitoring police accountability discussions, making recordings and ... COMMENTARY | Many Portlanders who are vulnerable to police harm are scrutinizing officials with ... carefully posting them online. Why are we interested in the police? Because our police are well known for ...
23 Jun 2016 - Jason Renaud an...
social-service experts, and trained police officers. We can plan, anticipate and act — if, and only if, we know. ... addiction and mental illness. But it’s shortsighted to hold only the individual accountable. In a sense, ...
15 Oct 2015 - Jason Renaud an...
mental illness. We noted a failure of police accountability that seemed to guarantee more tragedies in ... Adams: Dear Sam, Thank you for responding, finally, to our repeated calls to bring accountability to the ... Portland Police Bureau. It may have taken a couple of months, but you took our requests to heart. We wrote ...
22 Jun 2010 - Street Roots