people experiencing homelessness accounted for 52 percent of Portland Police Bureau arrests in 2017. In ... The bureau wants someone knowledgeable of homeless issues to train police to better respond to the ... needs of unsheltered communities Portland Police Bureau is looking to hire a homeless community liaison, ...
17 Dec 2018 - Street Roots Staff
Stephanie Wahab, Faculty Portland State University campus police police police accountability Ben ... police force on the PSU campus. Faculty and staff of Portland State University’s School of Social Work, ... proposal to create an armed police force on our campus. We have seen the negative impacts of policing and ...
6 Dec 2014 - PSU Faculty Members
involved in the Occupy Portland movement, will spark a broader discussion on police accountability while ... option to the public right now. It’s not the whole police accountability package, but it certainly starts ... Really, what does police accountability look like? I’d say that there are certainly other things that ...
15 Mar 2012 - Street Roots
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
changed, but the social issues are the same. There is still police violence. The disparity between the rich ... regarding race and police and violence and social ills. Police have been killing black people, young black ... and Latino men and women, without any recourse or accountability, for hundreds of years in this ...
10 Jan 2015 - Suzanne Zalokar