Portland Tribune, April 10, 2014 There are days, more than a few, when Susan Lehman feels, if not torn, at least tugged by the possibility of what could be done. Lehman works as a Portland Police Bureau sex abuse victim advocate. Her job is to help women who have been raped. On the job, she […]
The Portland Mercury, March 26, 2014 Earlier this year, Police Chief Mike Reese began showing off a flashy PowerPoint presentation around town. To the district attorney’s office, to city commissioners and, most publicly, to the city and county officials gathered for a meeting of the Local Public Safety Coordinating Council (LPSCC), Reese introduced “Prosper Portland,” […]
The Oregonian, Feb. 6, 2014 Right 2 Dream Too could have more than $800,000 to buy, lease or rent a new home thanks to the same Pearl District developers who held up the homeless community’s move to a spot beneath the Broadway Bridge last fall. Where that new home will be remains to be seen. […]
From the The Oregonian, Feb. 4, 2013 With Portland’s declining crime rate and a historic low in homicides, Police Chief Mike Reese sounded an alarm on another front Tuesday, calling for a different approach to handling homeless people who sleep downtown. The chief and his command staff have dubbed the initiative “Prosper Portland” and asked […]
The Portland Tribune, Jan. 9, 2014 Reports of drug dealing plague Old Town homeless experiment Bud Clark Commons Portland police are concerned that the city’s highest profile public housing project is becoming unmanageable. In early December, Portland Police Chief Mike Reese told the city’s Housing Commissioner Dan Saltzman that he was considering filing a chronic […]
The Portland Mercury, Dec. 9, 2013 See the end of this post for a list of available shelters. They were standing with a group of young people outside Union Gospel Mission. He was wearing snowpants and boots, two jackets and a hat. She was without a hat, in a jacket and gloves, and shivering as […]
By Sherri Buri McDonald, The Register-Guard, Dec. 1, 2013 Mikey McKennedy, co-owner of pizza shop Sizzle Pie, is used to doing business in rough neighborhoods. He had a bar in Portland’s Old Town for eight years and runs two Sizzle Pie restaurants on Burnside Street in Portland. So he didn’t think opening his first restaurant […]
By Israel Bayer, Executive Director, Street Roots, Nov. 15, 2013 Ending homelessness in downtown Portland and throughout our community can feel impossible at times. The lack of employment and living wage jobs, a foreclosure crisis, mental health, addiction, returning war veterans, an overwhelmed foster care and health care system, domestic violence, human trafficking, addiction, all […]
By Denis C. Theriault, Portland Mercury, Nov. 15, 2013 The most recent quarterly report from the police bureau on how its officers use force—and against whom—offers some cause for concern in the wake of news last week that the city and Portland Police Association had found relative peace over federal reforms. For reasons still unknown, […]
By Evan Sernoffsky, KGW News, Nov. 2, 2013 After a summer of clashes between cops and street kids, a sweep of campers in front of Portland’s City Hall, and the contentious possible move of the Right to Dream Too camp, homelessness has taken center-stage as one of Portland’s hot-button issues. But many in the Rose […]
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