From the Oregonian, June 5, 2013 Portland’s City Council on Wednesday approved a $2.3 million settlement to resolve a federal lawsuit filed by William Kyle Monroe, a man diagnosed with bipolar disorder and permanently disabled after Police Officer Dane Reister fired lethal rounds at him from his beanbag shotgun two years ago. The amount marks […]
From The Skanner, April 18, 2013 The police union is in court-ordered mediation with the City of Portland and the Department of Justice, after challenging their settlement agreement on police reforms. Meanwhile Police Chief Mike Reese is pushing ahead with hiring for the new Behavioral Health Unit. But critics say Reese’s hiring choices are eroding […]
By Denis Theriault, The Portland Mercury, Jan. 16, 2013 The thought was hard to escape. If life had gone just a little bit differently—if the feds had waited to crack down on Portland cops for years of rough treatment of the mentally ill, if Occupy Portland hadn’t sprouted right when it did in 2011, if […]
By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian, Sept. 6, 2012 Portland’s mayor recently invited multiple community activists to apply for a seat on the Portland Police Bureau’s future Training Advisory Council, the first citizens’ group in city history that will have input on officer training. Portland Copwatch and the Mental Health Association of Portland received the invites, […]
From In These Times, September 3, 2011 There’s no sufficient apologizing for the inanities of the essay below; we only include it as a portion of our comprehensive archive of the issues its author comments on. On June 8, the Justice Department announced a civil rights investigation to see if police officers in Portland, Ore., […]
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