edited by: Mike Landfair,
Oregon Editor
Governer Kulongoski decides to invite several Portland-area police departments to a friendly competition. The Beaverton Police Department, the Gresham Police Department, and the Portland Police Department all take part.
A jackrabbit is marked with blue dye, then released into Forest Park. Each of the Police Departments [...]
Today Portland City Commissioner Dan Saltzman reinstated Officer Chris Humphreys of the Portland Police Bureau to active duty after first suspending him pending an investigation into excessive use of force.
The decision only serves to underscore this simple truth: the Portland Police Bureau is not under the control of the [...]
Anna Griffin gets it right in The Oregonian:
A bit of friendly advice to the fine men and women of the Portland Police Bureau:In an Oregonian guest opinion today, Blue Oregon contributor Jesse Cornett urges police union members to reject the no-confidence measure targeted at Commissioner Saltzman and Chief Sizer:
This week, your union executive board is asking you to take a vote of no confidence on Portland Police Chief Rosie Sizer and Commissioner [...]
This morning over 600 police officers, family members and supporters rallied at Portland City Hall to protest the suspension of a Portland police officer Christopher Humphreys who was suspended. The suspension came when he fired a bean bag gun at a 12-year old girl for resisting [...] 
You'd think that members of the Portland (Oregon) police force would be embarrassed that several of their brethren weren't able to handle a combative 12 year old girl.
An officer shot her at close-range with a beanbag gun, even though several men had her down on the ground and were [...]
Steve Duin outlines the litany of recent complaints about the Portland Police Bureau in an article for The Oregonian:
In the brutal chain of personalities and events that have licensed Portland police to turn a beanbag shotgun on a 12-year-old girl, the aloof commissioner, absentee mayor and anything-goes police chief aren't' [...]Today the Portland Police Bureau announced that Officer Christopher Humphreys had been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation into an incident this weekend – caught on video tape – that showed Humphreys’ shooting a 12-year old girl with a bean bag gun at a MAX stop. The girl [...]
