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By Pastor Mark Knutson and Dan Handelman of the Albinia Ministerial Alliance Coalition for Justice and Police Reform In late May, consultants from the Los Angeles-Based OIR Group released a study on Portland Police Bureau shootings and deaths in custody. The Oregonian has supported the consultants’ call for the Bureau to learn more from its […]
By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian, Tuesday, February 28, 2012 Federal authorities investigating the Portland Police Bureau’s use of force held their first public meeting Tuesday night in St. Johns to gather citizens’ accounts of their interactions with city officers. More than 60 people attended. Their complaints varied, but all pleaded with the federal investigators to […]
By Martin Gonzalez, the coordinator of the Justice for Jose Mejia Poot Committee and member of the Portland School Board, and Dan Handelman, who participated in the Committee and is a member of Portland Copwatch. Today, April 1, 2011 marks 10 years to the day since day laborer Jose Santos Victor Mejia Poot was shot […]
by Jenny Westberg Keaton Otis was just 25 years old when he died on May 12, shot by police after a routine traffic stop in Northeast Portland. He was the third victim of a police shooting in Portland this year. In the latest tragedy, Officer Christopher Burley was wounded. Thankfully, he is expected to return […]
By Jenny Westberg, guest column in The Oregonian, May 14, 2010 In her column this week, The Oregonian’s Anna Griffin notes that any time James P. Chasse Jr.‘s name is in the news, she gets the same phone call: “Why won’t this story go away? It’s been four years. He was nobody. Why do you […]
Mental health activist Jason Renaud weighs in on the latest shooting by police of unarmed citizens in crisis By Israel Bayer Staff Writer – Street Roots – 2 18 2010 Jason Renaud had been an advocate for the rights of people with addiction and mental illness for more than a decade when a 42-year-old named […]
From the Portland Tribune, November 6 2008 Safety concerns prompt OHSU to mull gun rules – Lethal weapons in psychiatic unit may put patients at risk The head of public safety at Oregon Health & Science University wants officers such as Jess Gillies to be able carry guns, which currently is illegal. The university has […]
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. […]
From the Willamette Week, May 15, 2002 It’s loud. It’s messy. It’s nasty. But psychiatrist Peter Davidson is determined to rescue Portland’s mentally ill–whether they like it or not. There’s something about Dr. Peter Davidson that drives certain people–well, crazy. Most won’t say so in public. In public, they are unfailingly respectful to the maverick […]
From The Oregonian, August 10, 2001 The Multnomah County Board of Commissioners on Thursday unanimously approved the first phase of the county’s long-awaited mental health redesign. Commissioners also approved a budget outline for the acute-care plan but postponed until next month more specific — and potentially wrenching — decisions about how to pay for it. […]
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