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 …

3/11/2023 News Roundup

SHOOTING <<A grand jury has ruled that Roseburg police officers were justified in using deadly force when they shot and killed a man at an overnight warming shelter last week. Douglas County District Attorney Rick Wesenberg said state police first spotted the 20-year-old Grants Pass man walking on the shoulder of I-5 near Roseburg on …

1/21/23a News Update #1

AARON CAMPBELL A commission of international human rights groups is investigating: https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2021/01/portland-police-shooting-of-aaron-campbell-in-2010-under-scrutiny-by-international-commission.html DEMOS “Crowds of people across Portland turned violent on Inauguration Day, smashing windows at the Democratic Party of Oregon and later targeting the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement facility where federal officers declared an unlawful assembly. A crowd of around 150 people gathered at …