Street Roots vendors and others on the streets made clear the need for a non-police crisis response, our ... with accounts of rats gnawing at their bodies and their possessions. They’ve also described staying ...
4 Oct 2023 - Kaia Sand
503-228-5657, ext. 404 Homeless Rights housing crisis police accountability Print ... Opinion | Stable housing is vital, but remains underfunded compared to policing Imagine a city in ... mental health services, alongside other atrophied social services. And yet, a police force is always ...
29 Jun 2022 - Kaia Sand
concentrate. The blue and red police lights flashed in the window at West Burnside Street and Third Avenue, and ... we could hear shouts of distress. We hustled downstairs and out to the corner. Several police ... witnessed on our Old Town block in recent weeks, but the police and Rapid Response workers kept coming and, ...
18 May 2022 - Kaia Sand
in the PBOT report as the 8 percent of streets that account for 60 percent of all accidents that ... people. Instead, the mayor’s order is about policing space without adding safe dwellings. It’s important ... presupposition that unhoused people have to be policed — without actually having the housing to offer people ...
9 Feb 2022 - Kaia Sand
functioning air conditioning. As we argued in a recent editorial, we need non-police systems of welfare ... City Resource) to accompany the print guide and account for some of the more quickly changing ...
3 Aug 2021 - Kaia Sand
police shot John Elifritz on April 7 It has been a hard week at Street Roots. A handful of our vendors ... witnessed the police shooting Saturday night at Cityteam Shelter. People struggling with homelessness, and ... They describe how a clearly disturbed man burst into the space, police lights flashing from the street. ...
13 Apr 2018 - Kaia Sand
flag kitty-corner from our door, one wall between us and the jostling crowds and police sirens. That’s ... will need to manage an impeachment trial that values accountability and a reckoning while also moving ... we need to hold Trump and others accountable. It all needs to happen at once. It’s a heartbreaking ...
20 Jan 2021 - Kaia Sand
streets because the constancy of death of Black Americans at the hands of police is unabated. Kaia Sand is ... livelihoods.” It’s the profiteers that are not household names who need accounting for, too — the private equity ...
6 Jan 2021 - Kaia Sand
the river a wall of blue behind it. Hayes was 17 years old when the Portland police shot him three ... Oregon’s “Policy Demands.” They contain steps toward accountability and action through the mode of ... and find the areas that you are committed to and that you can lend your support to — police ...
7 Aug 2020 - Kaia Sand
third branch of the city’s first responder system, alongside police and fire, Portland Fire & Rescue ... police officers and security guards on the other side of the spectrum about a little more compassion. The ... are going to need to do as a team and create the kind of response that we can take that into account ...
31 Jan 2020 - Kaia Sand