accountability The only source for quantitative data on homeless encampment sweeps in Portland is the city agency ... concern in terms of transparency and accountability. As anyone who lives, works or shops downtown may well ... — “structure abatements” by the Portland Police Bureau. In March, Street Roots reported on emails showing ...
1 Jun 2022 - SR editorial board
Social Work).” Coll was quoted by the school’s official Twitter account Sunday in response to a Twitter ... using military or police to round up people that the wealthy and powerful don’t like is anything but ...
14 Feb 2022 - SR editorial board
Minneapolis following the police killing of George Floyd resonate with residents of cities across America: ... Police brutality against black people is rampant everywhere in the U.S. It always has been, and under the ... just about George Floyd, they’re about the young black lives taken by police right here at home: ...
5 Jun 2020 - SR editorial board
Portland City Council demands better police accountability – and public input On Wednesday this ... full, and long-suffering mandate of the city of Portland. police accountability Street Roots Editorial ... week, Portland City Council made two important decisions regarding the city’s police force: One to move ...
11 Aug 2017 - SR editorial board
more private security — including the retired police officers who are employed through Portland Patrol, ... which does much of the Clean & Safe security contract — it can instead be directed to non-police ... These structures serve to police the daily lives of unhoused people. A 2018 policy paper by Berkeley Law ...
29 Sep 2021 - SR editorial board
Portland’s bare-bones commitment to the non-police crisis response program doesn’t reflect the ... call the police for a welfare check, but she didn’t. She was afraid of what might happen to her ... Willamette Week reported last week that Portland Police Association blocked a city request for Portland ...
21 Jul 2021 - SR editorial board
trend in which the press becomes complicit in undermining transparency and accountability. Charitably, ... in a police action causing additional hardship to whom the city themselves described as “vulnerable ... accountability and the convenience of plausible deniability if voters and reporters should remember this action ...
18 Aug 2021 -
and mayor to mayor. SR editorial Editorial police accountability Portland Police Bureau Portland City ... hearings with the judge, advocates and the city on the progress in maintaining the police reforms ... between the DOJ, advocates and the city requires that the Portland Police Bureau change its policies ...
6 Nov 2014 - SR editorial board
and civilian police accountability. Currently, the city’s Independent Police Review system consists of ... prompted by federal pressure to streamline the police accountability process and expedite what are now ... Trading transparency for expediency is unacceptable Controversial changes to the city’s police ...
18 Aug 2016 - SR editorial board
Editorial police accountability Print ... promises Unveiled only a few weeks ago, the new Portland police union contract was lambasted almost ... pepper-sprayed. That’s a lousy way to conduct business, specifically around a police department under a federal ...
13 Oct 2016 - SR editorial board