By Jake Thomas, Street Roots, March 15, 2012 A common pattern often emerges after a citizen dies at the hands of police. There is public rage. The city promises reform, and then the rage simmers off until the next incident. Less noticeable, however, is the constant work of people dedicated to bringing reform to the […]
From the Oregonian editorial board, September 07, 2011 You need not be a psychiatric nurse to grasp that Portland, right now, could be facing a potential mental health disaster. The city and Multnomah County must work together to avert it, and fend off the danger well into next year. As it happens, city Commissioner Amanda […]
From the Willamette Week, February 4th, 2004 – by Nick Budnick Officer Bill Ollenbrook‘s police radio crackled with what sounded like life or death as he entered a low-income downtown apartment building last May. Details were sketchy, but according to the dispatcher, a man, possibly armed, was facing off with cops in a fourth-floor hallway. […]
Unsigned opinion editorial, The Oregonian, May 7, 2003 Critics said it would be a lapdog for the Portland Police Bureau. And it’s true that, in its first year of operations, the Independent Police Review Division hasn’t found the occasion to do much snarling. Nevertheless, we think the division has demonstrated that there’s a happy medium […]
From the Portland Mercury, May 31, 2001 With her shoulders hunched and eyes narrowed, Mayor Vera Katz pounded her gavel. “I can clear this room,” she declared, addressing a murmuring crowd of approximately 80 people who gathered at City Hall last Wednesday afternoon to talk about pending changes to the city’s police oversight committee. Over […]
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By Steve Duin & published in The Oregonian, June 25, 1995 Rarely does a single question provide as much heat and light as the one Chuck Currie stuck in the City Council’s ear on Wednesday. The need to replace the dear, departing Recovery Inn was up for debate at City Hall. Commissioner Gretchen Kafoury had […]
From the Oregonian, March 9, 1995 Big-picture dreamer that he is, Bill Naito sees it as “the Pioneer Courthouse Square of north downtown.” Wow. The proposed classical Chinese garden for Chinatown took its first walking steps in city council Wednesday morning, and it faces a virtual minefield on its three-year journey to fruition. But if […]
From the Oregonian, February 2, 1995 – not online Plans to site a mental health crisis center at the former Holladay Park Hospital in Northeast Portland building are dead. Howard Klink, deputy director of the county Community and Family Services Division, said Wednesday that plans for the center have fallen through. His comments follow a […]
From The Oregonian, August 26, 1994 When Portland-area police fatally fired on Gale E. Moody and Janet Marilyn Smith in separate incidents this week, they were doing exactly what they’ve been taught to do. Police training and tactical weaponry now offer little middle ground between negotiating with someone threatening harm and using deadly force. Once […]
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