CORRUPT <<A chief of police on the Oregon Coast faces criminal charges amid allegations that he took drugs and money from his station’s evidence lock-up. Tillamook Police Chief Raymond Rau, a man with nearly 30 years experience in law enforcement, has led the department since July 2021. He’s now facing four misdemeanor counts in a …
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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 …
7/29/2023 News Roundup
HOMELESSNESS <<For years, the areas around Hunnell and Clausen roads were filled with tents and RVs. Now, those same streets are empty and much quieter. The city of Bend completed removal of its largest homeless encampments, after a monthslong battle between officials and the dozens of people living there came to an end.>> <<Even at …
7/23/2023 News Roundup
SHOOTING <<Gunfire erupted inside Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital in Northwest Portland Saturday morning, leaving one security guard dead in the aftermath. After an hours-long search for the shooter, the suspect died in an officer-involved shooting in Gresham. The incident began around 11 a.m. when the shots were fired on the 5th floor of the Irving …
7/22/2023 News Roundup
HOMELESSNESS <<Urban Alchemy describes itself as a job-creation program for formerly incarcerated people. It was cofounded in 2018 by Lena Miller, a PhD in psychology who has spent decades on a mission to heal the affliction of violence in urban communities. She says that the traumas that the formerly incarcerated have experienced increase their emotional …
3/9/2023 News Roundup Part 2
RACIAL PROFILING <<Jordan Dinwiddie, Eberechi Onyenze, Ramone Palmore, Nathaniel Poe and Larry Wright say they were discriminated against for shopping while Black.>> Dinwiddie is one of more than a dozen clients on whose behalf the Kafoury & McDougal law firm is filing lawsuits in Multnomah County Circuit Court in the coming weeks. The lawsuits name …