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The Portland Tribune, Jan. 9, 2014 Reports of drug dealing plague Old Town homeless experiment Bud Clark Commons Portland police are concerned that the city’s highest profile public housing project is becoming unmanageable. In early December, Portland Police Chief Mike Reese told the city’s Housing Commissioner Dan Saltzman that he was considering filing a chronic […]
From the Oregonian, September 27, 2012 Portland Police Chief Mike Reese is returning Sgt. Kyle Nice, who has been working behind a desk following two police internal investigations, back to patrol duty. Nice has been on desk duty while he faced internal investigations for his role in an off-duty road rage encounter and for his […]
From The Oregonian, June 11, 2012 Portland Police Chief Mike Reese stressed multiple times during testimony before an arbitrator that Aaron Campbell posed no immediate threat to police before Officer Ronald Frashour shot him. “We don’t have a right to shoot him. He never displayed a weapon. He didn’t take any offensive action towards the […]
“Terribly Wrong”: Police Union Boss Posts Explosive Takedown of Frashour Firing From the Portland Mercury, June 5, 2012 Portland Police Association President Daryl Turner has never made it much of a secret that he loathes the city’s decision to fire Ron Frashour, the cop who fatally shot Aaron Campbell in the back back in January […]
From the Oregonian, October 9, 2011 Portland police twice walked away from confronting a mentally-ill man who had alarmed neighbors in recent weeks in his Southwest Portland apartment complex by striding the halls armed with a rifle and shotgun, and screaming out his window wearing a gas mask and bulletproof vest. It wasn’t until the […]
From the Portland Mercury, September 29, 2011 Some 12 hours after hostage negotiators persuaded a mentally ill, gun-waving 50-year-old man to peacefully emerge from his Goose Hollow apartment, Portland police officials this afternoon were triumphantly taking credit for averting a “huge tragedy” that could have ended, easily, with the death of the man they arrested, […]
From the Oregonian, September 28, 2011 A paranoid and delusional man who had 14 guns and 2,000 rounds of ammunition in his Southwest Portland apartment peacefully surrendered to law enforcement early Thursday after a six-hour stand off with police. John L. Griffin, 50, was arrested around 12:30 a.m. for unlawful use of a weapon and […]
From the Oregonian, September 24, 2011 Nearly three months after a Portland police officer mistakenly fired lethal shotgun ammunition from a less-lethal beanbag shotgun, striking and wounding a suspect, the Portland Police Bureau has yet to take any significant steps to prevent a similar mistake from happening. The shooting remains under investigation, and is to […]
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