From KGW.com, November 5 2009 Portland Police Commissioner Dan Saltzman announced today [Nov. 5] the 80-hour suspension of two Portland police officers in association with the death of a man who died in police custody three years ago. [James] Chasse died in police custody September 17, 2006. Saltzman, who is in charge of the police […]
From the Oregonian, November 3, 2009 Police Commissioner Dan Saltzman is proposing that two officers involved in the stop of James P. Chasse Jr. , who died in police custody in 2006, be suspended without pay for 80 hours each for failing to have Chasse transported by ambulance to a hospital, both before and after […]
Guest opinion from the Oregonian, October 23, 2009 Scott Westerman, president of the Portland Police Association, gets the case of James Chasse wrong from beginning to end in his recent commentary in The Oregonian (“Punishing the police won’t help us heal,” Oct. 13). Just whom does he mean by “us”? The police officers he represents? […]
By Scott Westerman, President of the Portland Police Association, printed in The Oregonian, October 13, 2009 The death of James Chasse is a tragedy, and the members of the Portland Police Association deeply regret this loss of life. James Chasse died because of a terrible series of events, not because of any malice in the […]
From the Oregonian, October 7, 2009 Representatives of the Mental Health Association of Portland, along with three other agencies, tomorrow are scheduled to call for the resignation of the three officers who had contact with James P. Chasse Jr. before his death in police custody. Speakers from the Mental Health Association of Portland, along with […]
From Willamette Week, October 1 2009 The controversy over the death of James Chasse Jr. is ramping up, with City Hall announcing an independent probe of the police investigation and the police union hiring a PR firm to clear up its image. City Auditor Lavonne Griffin-Valade announced today she’ll hire an outside expert to evaluate […]
From the Oregonian, September 30 2009 A volunteer with the Mental Health Association of Portland this morning urged the city council to press the Portland police chief to release the full internal inquiry into James P. Chasse Jr.’s death. “Our organization and thousands of people in Portland believe injustice has prevailed, that a fair hearing […]
From the Portland Mercury, September 30, 2009 The Portland Police Association has hired the same public relations firm as Merritt Paulson did for Major League Soccer, just in time to deal with the fallout from the inquiry into James Chasse Jr‘s death. Greg Peden and Shannon Berg from Gallatin Public Affairs were in council this […]
From the Oregonian, September 24 2009 – full article not available online More than three years after James P. Chasse Jr. died in police custody of blunt force trauma that splintered 16 of his ribs, Portland Police Chief Rosie Sizer found that a sergeant was the only one who violated policy, by failing to send […]
From OPB.org, September 23 2009 Portland Police Chief Rosie Sizer, has recommended that one of the officers involved in the arrest of James Chasse — who died in police custody — be suspended. The recommendation comes as Sizer released the findings of the police Use of Force Review Board Wednesday, but not the actual report. […]
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