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, December 30, 1992 The United States Mission, a nonprofit organization that opened a shelter in Northeast Portland last August, is drawing criticism from some former residents, as well as questions from other social service agencies and city officials. The mission, based at 4545 N.E. Garfield Ave., raises money through door-to-door solicitations by […]
From The Oregonian, November 19, 1992 Portland Mayor Bud Clark is considering many ideas for his life after politics, but one could stir as much controversy as anything he did in office: opening a tavern that would cater to late-stage alcoholics. “It sounds contradictory,” Clark said Wednesday. But he said the motive would be to […]
From The Oregonian – November 19, 1992. Not available elsewhere online. Portland Mayor Bud Clark is considering many ideas for his life after politics, but one could stir as much controversy as anything he did in office: opening a tavern that would cater to late-stage alcoholics. “It sounds contradictory,” Clark said Wednesday. But he said […]
From The Oregonian, October 21, 1992 – not available online Jane Hoyt’s sense of reality left her in the days before she died. She told people she was married to Jim Morrison, the late singer for The Doors. That the air smelled bad all over Portland because witches were burning. That somebody was trying to […]
MAN POINTS PISTOL From the Oregonian, October 6, 1992 A Portland policeman shot and killed a 78-year-old retired professional wrestler early Monday in North Portland after the man pointed a semiautomatic pistol at the officer. READ – Friends shocked after man dies in police custody, KGW.com Aimo Kallio Savuno of 908 N. Killingsworth Court died […]
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, May 5, 1992 Mental health services in Multnomah County — which were decentralized a decade ago — should be centralized again. That’s the recommendation of a citizen task force that studied the county’s mental and emotional disabilities service system for nearly four months. County commissioners are expected to approve the recommendation at […]
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 […]
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