DEFUNDING <<A John Day police funding ballot measure couldn’t muster enough support last year, and with the sheriff’s office feeling the effects of the fallout, Grant County leaders are debating whether to return to the ballot box. The judge and commissioners of the Grant County Court, the county government’s top elected body, discussed putting a …
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6/30/2023 News Roundup
SHOOTINGS <<A grand jury has found two Portland police officers justified in the shooting death of a murder suspect accused of shooting and killing a man in a Southeast Portland shop in April, the Clackamas County District Attorney’s Office announced. The officers, identified as Nick Wombold and Brian Wheeler, along with Clackamas County Sheriff’s Deputy …
4/21/2023 News Roundup
SHOOTING <<A Marion County grand jury found an Oregon State Police (OSP) trooper’s use of force was justified in a deadly shooting on Interstate 5 near Salem this month. The Marion County District Attorney’s office released videos showing three different angles of the incident that took place April 10. One perspective came from OSP trooper …
4/20/2023 News Roundup Part 1
COP STATS <<Portland police have responded to fewer calls and made fewer arrests in the past five years but have used force in a higher percentage of the arrests, new data shows. The more frequent use of force likely stems from police focusing on more serious crimes, in part because of reduced staffing, said city-hired …
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 …
2/2/23 News Update
CRIME STATS << Despite frequent negative media coverage, Portland is not even close to one of the most dangerous cities in the nation, according to FBI data. An article published Tuesday in the prominent business magazine Forbes lists the most dangerous and the safest cities in the United States, based on a new study that …
1/21/23b News Update #2
THE FASH <<Prominent Proud Boys member Tusitala “Tiny” Toese was in court on Friday after being arrested Thursday. Toese has been arrested several times, and a warrant for his arrest was issued in November following an incident where Toese’s GPS monitor died for more than 24 hours. After being arrested, he appeared before a judge …
1/1/23 News Update
JURIES <<Hundreds of felony convictions became invalid Friday after the Oregon Supreme Court struck down all nonunanimous jury verdicts reached before the practice was banned two years ago. The retroactive ruling applies to all split-jury convictions reached during the 86-year stretch when Oregon was one of only two states, alongside Louisiana, to allow such verdicts. …