READ – Statement of Findings of the DOJ investigation of the Portland Police Bureau, September 2012 READ – Statement of Intent between Portland Police Bureau and Department of Justice, September 2012 WATCH – Department of Justice Use of Force News Conference, September 13, 2012 Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Thomas E. Perez […]
By Jenny Westberg, Portland Mental Health Examiner Around 10:30 p.m. on August 14, Michael Justin Evans became the latest casualty in a years-long series of bloody encounters between Portland-area police and persons with mental illness or addiction. Evans, 23, was killed by one of the two Gladstone police officers dispatched to the home he shared […]
By James Mazzocco, on BlueOregon.com It was January 25, and Brad Morgan wanted to die. Maybe it was earlier. He had problems. A day, a week, or a month before — nobody can know for sure. All the same, Brad Morgan knew it was time. A tragic event has the power to cause us to […]
The actual Press Release for this event we include in full below, but it oddly makes no mention of people with a mental illness. The investigation started with an announcement on June 8th, 2011, where Assistant U.S. Attorney General Thomas E. Perez said the investigation was prompted by the significant increase in police shooting over […]
From the Portland Mercury, January 10, 2012 It’s tucked all the way at the end of the latest (and still unceremoniously quiet) release of Police Review Board reports: After a meeting last fall, the discipline panel — which reviews cases and advises Chief Mike Reese on punishment — overwhelmingly found every aspect of the May […]
From the Portland Mercury, July 13, 2011 In a unanimous decision quietly posted this month to the Portland Police Bureau’s website, the city’s newly activated, five-member Police Review Board has decided against any sanctions for the officer who shot Jack Dale Collins, a mentally ill homeless man holding an X-Acto knife, outside Hoyt Arboretum last […]
From Mother Jones, June 10, 2011 On September 17, 2006, Portland police officers saw a man behaving abnormally in the city’s trendy Pearl district. The man was James Chasse, a 42-year-old with schizophrenia. Three officers, who thought the Chasse might be a junkie or was urinating on the street, pursued him. Upon catching up with […]
From The Oregonian, by Maxine Bernstein. June 8, 2011 Assistant U.S. Attorney General Thomas E. Perez today announced a federal investigation into whether the Portland police are engaged in a “pattern or practice” of civil rights violations relating to officers’ use of force. The Civil Rights Divisions Special Litigation section will conduct the review with […]
From The Oregonian, July 13, 2010 Lynda Hughes can tell when her son, Devin [Hughes], wavers on the edge of psychosis. It’s hard to catch him before he falls. The towering 26-year-old stays safe and content when he takes his medicine and lives with people who look after him. “I can go along for a […]
by Jenny Westberg Keaton Otis was just 25 years old when he died on May 12, shot by police after a routine traffic stop in Northeast Portland. He was the third victim of a police shooting in Portland this year. In the latest tragedy, Officer Christopher Burley was wounded. Thankfully, he is expected to return […]
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