PPB news release at FlashAlert.net, August 6, 2013 The Portland Police Bureau today released a new video about its Mobile Crisis Unit. Their press release follows: As a continuing series of getting to know firsthand the work officers are doing in our community, the Police Bureau is releasing today a video ride-along with Mobile Crisis […]
News release, Portland Police Bureau, May 22, 2013 The Portland Police Bureau’s Service Coordination Team (SCT) has scheduled a graduation for Thursday May 23, 2013, from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m., in City Council Chambers at Portland’s City Hall. City Hall is located at 1220 Southwest 4th Avenue. Coffee and cake will be served immediately afterwards […]
By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian, May 16, 2013 Portland Mayor Charlie Hales announced Thursday that the city will not cut its share of funding for the Crisis Assessment and Treatment Center, as he had set out to do in his proposed budget. “We are gratified that people having serious mental health issues will continue to […]
By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian, May 4, 2013 Carol Slaney woke up Jan. 31 to find her 26-year-old son dead beside her bed from an accidental drug overdose. She grabbed a .45-caliber revolver and disappeared, hiding in an abandoned house behind her Southeast Portland apartment. “I just sat in that house, spinning the gun, planning […]
Mayor Charlie Hales stunned Multnomah County officials Tuesday when he announced that the city would no longer pay its share of a 16-bed secure mental health treatment center that opened two years ago after the death of James P. Chasse Jr. Portland police haven’t taken anyone to the Crisis Assessment Treatment Center despite a much-celebrated […]
Portland Police Bureau news release, April 30, 2013 In response to the changing landscape of police work and the requirements set forth in the City’s proposed agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice, the Portland Police Bureau has created the Behavioral Health Unit (BHU). The BHU is located within Central Precinct and encompasses and oversees […]
Officer-involved shooting takes man’s life at Adventist Medical Center By Alastair Jamieson, NBC News, Feb. 18, 2013 An “officer-involved shooting investigation” has been launched after a suspected gunman’s death at a Portland, Ore., hospital. Officers were called to the Adventist Medical Center in south-east Portland at 9:30 p.m. Sunday local time (0:30 a.m. ET Monday) following […]
By Andrea Damewood, Willamette Week, Dec. 12, 2012 It’s an otherwise slow Monday night, but Officer Casey Hettman is tense. He and two other Portland police officers move through a dingy hallway and flank the locked apartment door. Behind the door is an agitated man who believes President Obama is ordering him to kill. The […]
READ – Settlement Agreement (PDF download- 170KB) WATCH – Press conference Portland mayor, chief, and Oregon U.S. Attorney announce settlement on Portland police reforms By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian, Oct. 26, 2010 Portland Mayor Sam Adams and Police Chief Mike Reese stood with U.S. Attorney Amanda Marshall Friday afternoon in City Hall to announce a […]
From The Oregonian, September 15, 2012 The U.S. Department of Justice was blatantly clear in its report last week that the Portland Police Bureau’s practice of training all its officers in crisis intervention techniques — adopted after the high-profile death in police custody of James P. Chasse Jr. — isn’t working. The review found Portland’s […]
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