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Published in Street Roots, October 2020 Since Aaron Campbell’s death, at least 20 people with mental health or substance problems have been killed by Portland police. Say their names. Members of the Mental Health Alliance will vote YES on Portland City Ballot Measure 26-217 to form a new and empowered police review board and bring […]
From the New York Review of Books, September 20, 2020 Eugene, Oregon—Every call that is dispatched through the radio, twenty-four hours a day, to the CAHOOTS crisis responders is a tiny mystery, a staticky, incomplete assemblage of details. “White female in her thirties, brown hair, black mid-length shirt, last seen on Sixth, yelling and running […]
Author – Michael Hopcroft, Board member of the Mental Health Association of Portland On February 25th, a status conference was held in federal court about the settlement of a civil rights case on police use of force. In 2012, the US Department of Justice sued the City of Portland over multiple cases of excessive or […]
Definitely the best cover of Wipers “Alien Boy” is by the mid-nineties Olympia-Portland band Calamity Jane. The song “Alien Boy” was written by Greg Sage in about 1979 about James Chasse, a person with a mental illness who in 2006 was killed by three Portland police officers.
Koben Henriksen was the fifth person in a mental health crisis killed by officers of the Portland Police Bureau in 2019. Prior to Henriksen, Portland officers killed Andre Gladen, Jeb Brock, David Downs, and Lane Martin. In the surrounding area, David Engebretson suicided in the custody of deputies of the Clackamas County Sheriff, Dante Halling […]
From KATU.com, March 28, 2019 By now, many Portlanders have heard of the Portland Committee on Community-Engaged Policing (PCCEP). It’s a citizen committee that formed in the wake of a legal settlement between the city of Portland and the U.S. Justice Department. There are also subcommittees exploring specific issues relating to how police officers interact […]
JASON RENAUD TESTIMONY TO PORTLAND CITY COUNCIL ON ANDRE GLADEN March 6, 2019 Since 2006, the year James Chasse a gentle man with schizophrenia was beaten to death by three Portland police officers, the City of Portland has failed to reduce or eliminate the routine harm done by police to people with mental illness. Mostly […]
Eds. Note: In 2006 Chris Humphreys beat James Chasse, a man with schizophrenia, to death on the streets of Portand. He was not held accountable by the Portland Police Bureau or his colleague officers, or his employers at the City of Portland. After a landmark settlement with the Chasse family and the award-winning documentary film […]
East Oregonian, January 15, 2019 After seven years as Wheeler County Sheriff, Chris Humphreys found he could no longer connect with his family. The “gloom” in his head just wouldn’t go away. “I was never completely there,” he said, cleaning out his office during his last days on the job. “That’s a hard thing to […]
Program in Eugene, Ore., is viewed as a model for reducing risk of violence Wall Street Journal – November 30, 2018 (SEE PDF FOR PHOTOGRAPHS) They are the kind of calls that roll into police departments with growing regularity: a man in mental crisis; a woman hanging out near a dumpster at an upscale apartment […]
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