Mental Health Association of Portland – Oregon's impartial & Independent advocate
By Denis C. Theriault, Portland Mercury, Oct. 2, 2013 Will Aitchison, the longtime (and now retired) attorney for the Portland Police Association (PPA), was known for many things over the decades he spent defending his client in contract talks, court fights, government hearings, and arbitration cases. He’s sharp-tongued. He’s deft with explanations. He’s disarmingly charming. […]
By Denis Theriault, The Portland Mercury, Jan. 16, 2013 The thought was hard to escape. If life had gone just a little bit differently—if the feds had waited to crack down on Portland cops for years of rough treatment of the mentally ill, if Occupy Portland hadn’t sprouted right when it did in 2011, if […]
Chief Mike Reese says the PPB Crisis Intervention Team will be reconstituted. These changes are not what the DOJ specified in their Preliminary Agreement on Reforms Regarding Portland Police Bureau’s Use of Force Against Persons with Mental Illness. We OPPOSE this change. From the launch of CIT in Portland until all officers were trained in […]
By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian, Oct. 12, 2012 A Multnomah County grand jury has found no criminal wrongdoing by two Portland police officers involved in a Sept. 29 shooting that wounded Joshua Stephen Baker. Instead, the grand jury returned an indictment against Baker, 27, charging him with attempted murder with a firearm, first-degree assault with […]
By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian, October 2, 2012 The Portland Police Association Tuesday morning argued that the city auditor’s review of witness testimony in the arbitration involving fired Officer Ron Frashour was not independent but marred by politics. “We had requested an independent review of testimony of city witness testimony by a third-party,” wrote Officer […]
By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian, Oct. 1, 2012 Two Portland police officers were involved in a shooting early Saturday after responding to a call of shots fired at a Southeast Portland apartment building. East Precinct officers were called to Hathaway Apartments, at 3320 Southeast 134th Ave., at 3:54 a.m. Saturday. The officers who responded found […]
From the Portland Mercury, August 21, 2012 – by Denis Theriault As noted in yesterday’s post about the Portland Police Bureau’s new Training Advisory Council, I’m still waiting on more details about how public—or not—the citizen panel will be. A posting seeking applicants didn’t mention whether the group’s four meetings a year would be open […]
One dead in Portland officer-involved shooting From KGW.com, July 28, 2012 A police officer opened fire on a shooting suspect’s car causing it to slam into an apartment in north Portland Saturday, authorities said. The Special Emergency Response Team was called to the scene and determined that the driver was dead, said Lt. Robert King […]
The Oregonian, July 05, 2012 Police took a 45-year-old man to the hospital after he injured several officers Thursday when they tried to subdue him after a naked chase near Interstate 205 in Southeast Portland. It was the second scuffle in less than a day that Charles Arthur Freeman had with police, authorities said. He […]
From the Portland Mercury, June 19, 2012 Eight days after Portland Police Association President Daryl Turner publicly shared confidential details from an arbitration ruling over whether the city should reinstate Ron Frashour—the cop fired for killing Aaron Campbell—the city attorney’s office sent a terse letter accusing the PPA of “unauthorized disclosures” violating a federal court […]
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