The Citizen Review Committee’s Taser/Less-lethal Force Workgroup is scheduled for a public meeting on Tuesday, October 18, 1:30 – 3:00 PM at the City Hall Auditor’s office to discuss and review recommendations from the CRC to the Portland City Council. You can attend this informal meeting. Members of the Mental Health Association of Portland, as […]
From the Oregonian editorial board, September 07, 2011 You need not be a psychiatric nurse to grasp that Portland, right now, could be facing a potential mental health disaster. The city and Multnomah County must work together to avert it, and fend off the danger well into next year. As it happens, city Commissioner Amanda […]
Sam Adams, Mayor Amanda Fritz, Commissioner Portland City Hall Dear Sam and Amanda: Congratulations and thanks to you both for developing Portland’s Office of Equity, which we’re certain will be a success. Moving this Office from idea to reality took courage, determination and perseverance. We are confident the Office of Equity will be a thriving […]
From the Portland Tribune, by Peter Korn. June 2, 2011 Frequently arrested ‘thorns’ bloom in City Hall ceremony Once a year, Portland City Council chambers are turned over to an awards ceremony involving the city’s most frequently arrested residents. The proceedings are a little rowdier than most City Hall events, with a fair amount of […]
Opinion editorial from The Oregonian, August 2, 2010 On a heavenly summer evening last week, Portlanders sat in the City Council chambers, trying to reconcile two realities, one bright and one dark — a police horror story and a stellar tale of a police agency’s transformation. Both are supported by facts. Yet both are also […]
From The Skanner, March 31, 2010. Guest opinion by Jason Renaud. The board of the Mental Health Association of Portland do not endorse the tactics taken Monday evening by protesters in the streets of downtown Portland. We don’t endorse violence in any form – verbal or physical, active or threatened, against persons or property. Simply […]
Opinion Editorial from the Mental Health Association of Portland, printed in Street Roots, October 2, 2009 On Sept. 17, the Mental Health Association of Portland delivered a letter to Mayor Sam Adams, Police Commissioner Dan Saltzman and Police Chief Rosie Sizer requesting the release of the internal investigation on the fate of James Chasse on […]
Guest opinion from the Oregonian, October 23, 2009 Scott Westerman, president of the Portland Police Association, gets the case of James Chasse wrong from beginning to end in his recent commentary in The Oregonian (“Punishing the police won’t help us heal,” Oct. 13). Just whom does he mean by “us”? The police officers he represents? […]
From the Oregonian, October 22, 2009 Portland Commissioner Randy Leonard said Thursday he can no longer hide his feelings about police handling of the James Chasse case just because the city is facing a federal lawsuit in the death. “That has nothing to do with justice, worrying about legal positioning when a man like Mr. […]
Read and sign the James Chasse petition. The James Chasse petition has been signed now by over 180 persons. The petition asks the City of Portland to release it’s investigation of what happened to James Chasse, which has been sitting on the desk of police chief Rosie Sizer for many months. Please read – and […]
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