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From The Oregonian, May 12, 2003 They gathered on Mother’s Day to pray and protest. The prayers were for Kendra James, a 21-year-old mother of two shot dead by a Portland police officer May 5. The prayers were sweet and compelling and full of heart. The protests were forceful and filled with a deep concern […]
From The Oregonian, Wednesday, May 7, 2003. This is the first Oregonian news story about the killing of Kendra James. More than 36 hours after Portland Officer Scott McCollister shot and killed a 21-year-old woman who was attempting to drive away from a traffic stop, Portland police said Tuesday they did not know why he […]
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 […]
By Robert Landauer – editorial columnist for The Oregonian, May 6, 2003. Not available elsewhere online. Any darn-fool manager can make an agency look good when taxes flood in like high tide at full moon. When the tax tide ebbs, though, it takes brains, skill and grit to perform like a star. As one who […]
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