SHOOTING <<A grand jury dismissed charges against a Portland police officer involving a fatal shooting in November 2022. Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt announced on Thursday that a grand jury returned a ‘not true’ bill and found the force by Portland officer Chris Sathoff that resulted in the death of Immanuael Jaquez Clark-Johnson, 30, …
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8/17/2023 News Roundup Part 2
SPEEDY TRIAL <<Court cases across Oregon are taking longer and longer to resolve. This has a variety of consequences, including the fact that pretrial defendants are spending more time behind bars. It’s a particularly acute problem in Multnomah County, according to Oregon Judicial Department reports reviewed by WW. Less than half of criminal cases in …
8/10/2023 News Roundup
REVIEW BOARD <<A proposal for a new police oversight panel approved by voters almost three years ago will come before the Portland City Council on Aug. 31. Council members are already signaling it may be in trouble. After the George Floyd protests, 82% of Portland voters in November 2020 approved the creation of a new …
6/22/2023 News Roundup
STREET RESPONSE <<Portland Street Response is both widely popular and politically embattled, thanks to a city commissioner, Rene Gonzalez, who’s reducing its funding and a firefighters’ union that remains unfriendly to it (“Flame War,” WW, May 31). But the dispute over involuntary holds shows other tensions that threaten the program’s long-term prospects. WW reviewed correspondence …
4/22/2023 News Roundup
STREET RESPONSE <<At least one Portland Street Response worker has resigned since Portland Fire Chief Sara Boone announced a controversial change to the city’s mental health crisis response team last week. On April 11, Boone announced the team must respond to homeless sweeps to assist campers when asked by city contractors or leaders at Portland …
3/23/2023 News Roundup
GANG SQUAD/GUN SQUAD <<In 2018, the City Auditor’s Office issued a pair of reports on Portland Bureau’s Gang Enforcement Team. The team has since been disbanded, replaced first by the short-lived Gun Violence Reduction Team and then the Enhanced Community Safety and Focused Intervention Teams, which still exist. That shouldn’t free the bureau from addressing …
2/18/23 News Update
RIOT CHARGES <<A soldier stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington exchanged text messages with people on the street in Portland, egging them on to smash windows and damage property and broke out windows himself at the Blazer Boys and Girls Club during protests in 2021, according to an indictment filed in court this month. …
2/9/23 News Update
SHOOTING <<Two Albany police officers shot and killed a man in a mental health crisis Wednesday morning after the man pointed a gun at them, the Associated Press reports. The officers were initially responding to a welfare check for a man reported to be suicidal at a home in southwest Albany. The Albany Police Department …