From the Willamette Week, July 22 2009 Police Chief Rosie Sizer was quick to take credit when the city’s Independent Police Review Division reported last week that use of force against all citizens by Sizer’s officers had dropped from previous years. “I think we started managing the issue better,” Sizer told The Oregonian. But at […]
From the Portland Mercury, July 21 2009 Portland Police are using their Tasers almost twice 26 percent more against people with mental illness as they were in 2006 according to a new report. A use of force report released by the city in November 2006 showed only 26% of force used against people with mental […]
The third anniversary of the death of James Chasse is September 17 2009. We’re starting to plan a commemoration – and want your help. We’re mulling a few ideas – but for brainstorming, the more the merrier. Want to help? Send us an email at info@oregonarchive.org. The Mental Health Association of Portland has applied fairly […]
Friends, In early 2007, the Portland Police released a report on Use of Force which showed heavy use of force activity by transit police and Central Precinct officers, and included recommendations to lower the amount of force used. READ – Portland Police Bureau Use of Force Report, released 4 / 2007. The report broke out […]
From the Oregonian, November 10, 2007. Not available elsewhere online. Leo Besner, the Portland police officer at the center of a $500,000 city settlement with the family of a man he shot in 2005, was involved in another shooting six years earlier. When the settlement was announced Thursday, Robert J. King, the president of the […]
From The Oregonian – October 4, 2006 James P. Chasse Jr., the 42-year-old man who died Sept. 17 after three officers struggled to arrest him, suffered more than a dozen fractured ribs, some that punctured his left lung and caused massive internal bleeding, according to an autopsy report released by his family’s attorney Tuesday. The […]
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