From The Oregonian, April 28, 1992. Not available elsewhere online. Sandy Herman believes civilian oversight of the Portland Police Bureau is a joke. And it’s not one people should be laughing about. “It’s totally ineffective. It’s absolutely ignored,” said Herman, who was the first staff member hired by the Portland Internal Investigations Auditing Committee in […]
From The Oregonian, April 27, 1992 – not available online When a special police assault team approached a suspected Northeast Portland drug house last year, the officers had reason to worry. They’d heard the man inside was a “gun nut.” Burglar-bars blocked many doors and windows. Three dogs patrolled the yard. To the police, these […]
From The Oregonian, April 26, 1992 – not available elsewhere online. Mari Lyn Sandoz could see the twinkling Christmas lights on the bus mall to her left. She angled away from them. Just staggered out of the phone booth and left the receiver hanging there. She had warned them, and now she was going to […]
From the Oregonian, Sunday, April 26, 1992 – not available elsewhere online Are Portland police shooting too much? Twenty shots to kill a mental patient waving a pellet gun. Thirty-six shots from submachine guns to kill a small-time drug dealer. Sixteen shots to kill a drunken burglar who held a 12-year-old boy hostage — and […]
From The Oregonian, April 25, 1992 The Portland Police Bureau studied 29 police shootings from 1988 through 1991. The Oregonian analyzed the study and found: WHO – In two-thirds of the cases the suspect was under the influence of drugs or alcohol and in one-third the suspect had suicidal tendencies. – All but two cases […]
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