from The Oregonian Chasse death sparks a change I n the wake of a mentally ill man’s death in police custody last fall, the Portland Police Bureau has moved with impressive speed to improve departmental policies. One change announced this week clarifies what police should, and shouldn’t, do when they use force and have reason […]
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from The Oregonian, by Maxine Bernstein Portland police are hearing from people who suffer from mental illnesses and are also listening to fellow officers discuss their own family members’ struggles in a new crisis intervention training curriculum that began this month. Lt. Sara Westbrook said the revamped curriculum is more focused around real people. “Because
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from The Oregonian A civil rights lawsuit filed Thursday by the family of a schizophrenic man who died in Portland police custody last fall seeks more than money: It demands wide-ranging policy changes designed to reduce excessive force by officers. James P. Chasse, Jr., who suffered from schizophrenia, died from broad-based blunt force trauma to
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from The Portland Mercury, by Matt Davis The family of James Chasse Jr. is suing the police offiers and others it claims are responsible for his “inhumane and tortured death,” the family’s attorney announced this afternoon. Chasse’s father, James Sr, sat silently in a blue bowtie alongside civil rights attorney Tom Steenson at a press