By Jenny Westberg, Portland Mental Health Examiner, December 30, 2013 It seemed the perfect setup for a tragedy. But Thursday’s police encounter with a man atop a parking garage — naked, in crisis, threatening to jump, holding a knife he was using on himself – ended without police firing a single round. Instead, officers used […]
By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian, May 17, 2013 The City of Portland would pay $35,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a man who was injured during a March 2010 anti-police protest, under an ordinance that will go before city commissioners Wednesday. The encounter, captured on television footage, resulted in injuries to Clifford Richardson. He […]
Will They Ever Learn? Report on Cop Shooting Investigations Finds “Room for Improvement” Portland Mercury, June 27, 2012 The day after the city released an outside analysis of seven police shootings since 2004—a report that raised significant concerns about the Portland Police Bureau’s ability to learn from its mistakes—the bureau’s official response didn’t inspire much […]
By Jason Renaud and Jenny Westberg This article appeared in Oregon Trial Lawyer magazine, Summer 2011 The most discriminated against class of persons – in any place, at any time, within any society – are persons with an active mental illness. Race, religion, class – any and all of these biases are there as well, […]
By Jenny Westberg, Portland Mental Health Examiner On Dec. 27, Portland police shot Marcus Lagozzino, 34, critically injuring him, in the sixth officer-involved shooting of 2010. Within a week, 2011 started with another officer-involved shooting – then another. At 1:37 a.m. on Jan. 1, police arrested a man at Club 915 in downtown Portland. While […]
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