Pertaining to crimes and police
Not Available Elsewhere Online – July 29, 1993 | The Oregonian A Multnomah County grand jury Wednesday harshly criticized a Portland police officer who fired 23 shots at a fleeing man — and indicted the man. A grand jury indicted Gerald F. Gratton, 27, on charges of unlawful possession of a weapon and being a […]
Not Available Elsewhere Online – July 23, 1993 | The Oregonian Opinion Editorial A key question raised by Monday night’s incident in which Portland police shot 27 times at an armed man fleeing from possible arrest is where all the bullets went. Stray police bullets can kill people just as stray gang bullets do. So […]
Not Available Elsewhere Online – July 22, 1993 | The Oregonian A Portland police officer told investigators that he shot at a fleeing man Monday night because the man was armed with a gun and might have taken a hostage if he had escaped. The man, who was hit in the back and the elbow, […]
From the Oregonian, June 27, 1992 – not available elsewhere online The Portland Police Bureau should make sweeping changes in the way it trains officers to handle firearms, potentially fatal confrontations and mentally disturbed people, a new study recommends. The study comes in response to the accidental death of a 12-year-old hostage killed Jan. 16 […]
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, June 21, 1988 – not available online. A man who died June 10 shortly after being taken into custody by Portland police had overdosed on the medication he used to control his schizophrenia, the Multnomah County medical examiner said Monday. James Patrick Nydegger, 37, of 5712 N. Interstate Ave., had taken “an […]
Portland Audit Committee Just Not Doing Much Good – PDF February 1987 op ed by Lewis & Clark Law School prof Susan Mandiberg, member of the Police Internal Affairs Auditing Committee (PIIAC). The PIIAC folded – collectively resigned – in 1988 because they were not given the investigative tools to do the work.
By WALLACE TURNER, Special to the New York Times Published: May 27, 1981 PORTLAND, Ore., May 24— A police scandal spawned in the torrent of cash from the illegal narcotics trade is running its course behind this city’s lovely facade of blooming late-spring flowers and rainwashed, sun-dried streets. Five narcotics squad officers have been forced […]
Just a handful of front pages from the Oregon Statesman in the 1950s about the Oregon State Hospital. The Oregon statesman., December 15, 1954, Page 1 (PDF) The Oregon statesman., January 25, 1953, Page 1 (PDF) The Oregon statesman., November 20, 1955, Page 1 (PDF) The Oregon statesman., May 05, 1956, Page 1 (PDF) The […]
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