The Oregonian, 5/31/14, excerpt from “Oregon rural police: Sheriffs, district attorneys speak out on their challenges” If you have spent the last 7 1/2 years chained to the floor of a concrete bunker, underground, in Antarctica, while comatose, and worse yet, it caused you to miss the film Alien Boy – see it immediately. Then you’ll […]
By Denis C. Theriault, Portland Mercury, Oct. 2, 2013 Will Aitchison, the longtime (and now retired) attorney for the Portland Police Association (PPA), was known for many things over the decades he spent defending his client in contract talks, court fights, government hearings, and arbitration cases. He’s sharp-tongued. He’s deft with explanations. He’s disarmingly charming. […]
By Emily Walker, PDXX Collective, July 12, 2013 Living in Portland you have to know the name James Chasse. You must know that police tackled Chasse, who was [diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia], in front of restaurants in the Pearl District. You must have heard that the three police officers involved alleged that Chasse was urinating […]
By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian, April 8, 2013 Portland police disciplined for using excessive force would not be able to challenge the discipline before a state arbitrator, under a bill that will have a hearing before state lawmakers on Wednesday. State Sen. Chip Shields, D-Portland, has sponsored the bill, at the request of Portland attorneys […]
By Brian Lindstrom, in the Portland Tribune, Feb. 21, 2013 As parents of a 7- and an 8-year-old, my wife Cheryl Strayed and I often discuss what we hope to impart to our children. At the top of that list is resilience, which I define not only as the ability to persevere despite obstacles but […]
Former Portland Police Bureau officer Christopher Humphreys has won the position of Sheriff for Wheeler County, Oregon. A radio journalist who broadcasts in Central Oregon called yesterday to ask, “are persons with mental illness no longer safe in Central Oregon?” No, but they have never been safe in Central Oregon. If persons who live in […]
From the Oregonian, September 27, 2012 Portland Police Chief Mike Reese is returning Sgt. Kyle Nice, who has been working behind a desk following two police internal investigations, back to patrol duty. Nice has been on desk duty while he faced internal investigations for his role in an off-duty road rage encounter and for his […]
Guest column by Jenny Westberg, published in The Oregonian, July 18, 2012 An arbitrator’s decision last week to overturn 80-hour suspensions against Portland police officers involved in the 2006 death of James Chasse will further erode community confidence in the police, particularly among those affected by mental illness. Although the police union considers the ruling […]
unsigned opinion by the editors of The Oregonian, July 17, 2012 No doubt, Chris Humphreys and Kyle Nice were pleased with an arbitrator’s decision this month related to the 2006 death of James Chasse. At least someone is. Portland residents have every reason to be disgusted, and the rest of Portland’s police force should be […]
In the past three decades, Portland police chiefs have fired officers who were convicted of driving drunk off duty, leaving dead animals outside a black-owned business, and selling “Smoke ‘Em, Don’t Choke ‘Em” T-shirts to officers after a man died in police custody from a neck hold. The chiefs had to bring them all back. […]
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