Jonathan Levinson
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City Council established and appointed 20 community members to the ReThink Police Accountability Commission, tasked with designing a transition plan from the current oversight body to the new board, delineating the powers of the new board and determining how it will be organized.
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When police shot and killed Michael Ray Townsend, it reinvigorated community calls for police to no longer dispatch to these types of calls, while bringing added pressure on the city to speed up its rollout of policing alternatives like Portland Street Response. Townsend’s and Delgado’s medical records show how the city and county’s under-resourced health care system bounces people suffering from untreated addiction and mental health needs from crisis to crisis. Their cases also show how health care workers often successfully deescalate the most urgent situations, but fail to meaningfully help in the days and weeks that follow.
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A Portland police officer shot and injured a man Tuesday night at a convenience store on Northwest Naito Parkway.
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Racial justice protests in Portland, Ore., have quieted down since last year. The city is now grappling with whether promises for police accountability will actually take shape in the coming months.
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A Multnomah County Grand Jury decided not to move forward with charges in the killing of Israel Berry.
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Multiple people familiar with the circumstances around last week's police shooting said Michael Ray Townsend called the police himself, seeking help for his suicidal ideations.
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The Portland Police Bureau identified the victim in Thursday’s police shooting as 40-year-old Michael Ray Townsend. Portland police officer Curtis Brown shot and killed Townsend in the parking lot of a Motel 6 during a welfare check.
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The Portland Police Bureau on Friday evening identified the officer who shot and killed a man Thursday in a Motel 6 parking lot as Officer Curtis Brown, who has been with the bureau for 18 years.
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The mass resignations from the Rapid Response Team raise a raft of questions about how the police bureau will manage officer morale and discipline in the ranks, carry out effective police oversight, and address staffing shortages. Officers, meanwhile, say it is their rudderless and politicized leadership team that is the problem.
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Portland police said at least one officer was involved in a shooting near the intersection of Holladay Street and Grand Avenue in Northeast Portland on Thursday.