Disability Rights Oregon, Jan. 17, 2014 In 2012, the US DOJ found a “pattern or practice of excessive force by the Portland Police Bureau against people with, or perceived to be with, mental illness.” Now the community needs to speak out at a “Fairness Hearing” on Tuesday, February 18, 2014 at 9 a.m., 1000 SW […]
From The Oregonian, Jan. 8, 2014 Portland’s City Council Wednesday afternoon voted 4-0 to approve the city auditor’s package of proposed reforms intended to strengthen oversight of the city’s police. Despite last-minute pleas by community members and the police union president to hold off on a vote, the council moved ahead. Commissioner Amanda Fritz was […]
By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian, Oct. 11, 2013 After efforts to broaden the pool of applicants for the Portland police psychologist job, the city is poised to sign a three-year contract with the same psychologist who has served the Police Bureau for 13 years and a second psychologist who will do a much smaller […]
Since a take-no-prisoners inquiry by the U.S. Department of Justice, which found Portland police were engaged in a “pattern or practice” of excessive force against people with mental illness, the City of Portland’s draft settlement agreement has still not been approved in federal court. Justice officials, the Portland police union and the Albina Ministerial Alliance Coalition […]
By Steve Duin, The Oregonian, July 13, 2013 Occupy Portland continues to ally with Portland’s homeless, periodically joining them at the 4th & Madison campsite. Just like 2011, the 2013 campsite has a surplus of donated food – and drugs, and trash. Just like 2011, City Hall is trying to ignore the whole thing. –Eds. The […]
By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian, July 10, 2013 A new outside audit of six Portland police shootings and one death in custody highlights a series of problems that continue to plague officers’ use of deadly force and the bureau’s internal reviews. READ – OIR Group Report 2 – Police Shootings and In Custody Deaths – […]
By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian, June 7, 2013 Federal prosecutors and city attorneys have reached an impasse with the Portland police union on reforms that should be made by the police bureau to address a scathing federal inquiry that found officers use excessive force against people with mental illness. “It’s certainly disappointing that we were […]
By Andrea Damewood, Willamette Week, May 13, 2013 As much as Portland’s police say they’re now the de facto psychological workers for the mentally ill on the city’s streets, they need mental help too. The city is hiring contracted psychologist positions, one to conduct pre-hiring tests and another to test officers on staff who have […]
By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian, May 4, 2013 Carol Slaney woke up Jan. 31 to find her 26-year-old son dead beside her bed from an accidental drug overdose. She grabbed a .45-caliber revolver and disappeared, hiding in an abandoned house behind her Southeast Portland apartment. “I just sat in that house, spinning the gun, planning […]
By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian, Oct. 23, 2012 For 13 years, the city of Portland has awarded a Lake Oswego man a contract to conduct psychological exams of prospective Portland police hires and to gauge whether officers who have been involved in shootings and other major events are fit to return to duty. With little […]
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