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Welcome to the Portland Copwatch Web Page
Portland Copwatch is a grassroots, volunteer organization promoting police accountability
through citizen action.
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Newsletter
Check out our newsletter, the People's Police
Report (published 3 times a year)
NEW! #54-September
2011 (with graphics!--1/12)
Shootings and
Deaths in Custody
Information on Portland Police shootings and deaths in
custody
Includes the shootings of Aaron
Campbell and Keaton Otis
the in-custody
death of James Chasse, Jr.
and the shootings of
James Jahar Perez and Kendra James
List of
shootings and deaths 1992-January 2012 (NEW!Updated
1/26/12)
Analysis of PARC's 2006 report
on Portland
Police shootings
(7 pages, 1/23/07)
Analysis of PARC's 2005 report on Portland
Police shootings
(9 pages, 9/16/05)
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Portland Copwatch Activities
NEW! Emergency Actions: Keaton Otis/Aaron Campbell
January, 2012: Meet at City Hall, SW 4th and Madison, 11:30 AM
the next regular weekday after announcements are made on these cases.
For details see the AMA Coalition
website.
Changes to Portland's Civilian Oversight system
In early November, the Mayor and Chief put out a 44-page
document
followed days later by the City Auditor's own 45-page
document
responding to over 150 recommendations for changes to Bureau Policy
and the "Independent" Police Review Division (IPR).
Depsite the community waiting for nearly 2 years to strenghten the IPR's
Citizen Review Committee (CRC), Council voted in only 4 significant changes
to the ordinance on December 14, one of which weakened the CRC.
Read Portland Copwatch's eight-page analysis of
the review board proposals (.pdf only- November 9)
and our four-page analysis of the Bureau policy issues
(November 11).
For clarity, we created a document outlining the Auditor's
proposed changes
and eleven other changes derived from the Stakeholders' recommendations for IPR (Nov. 30).
Portland Copwatch participated in the
IPR Stakeholder Workgroup (May-
September
2010)
evaluating changes to the Independent Police Review Division (IPR)
made in March, 2010. Read the Stakeholders
Report (41 recommendations)
the Auditor's Response
and Chief's Response
Read Portland Copwatch's analysis of the
"Standard of Review" for the
Citizen Review Committee (4/8/11-.pdf)
Based in part on the 2008 Luna-Firebaugh Report
on the IPR
• Download the January, 2008 report from the
IPR's website,
• read our full analysis (2/12/08), watch the companion
video
or look at other information
-> Look here for announcements of upcoming
Orientations, Your Rights and the Police Seminars
and Copwatch Trainings
Contact us if you want us to
provide a training for your organization!
Portland Copwatch participated in the Mayor's
Racial Profiling
Committee from January, 2007 until it was disbanded in late
2008.
(We are monitoring the
Office of Human
Relations' efforts to continue the work.)
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Other Portland Police Accountability Stuff
Analysis of the
Auditor's Report on Tasers
(11/18/10)
Analysis of the
City's 2009 Use of Force
Report
(3 pages, 7/20/09)
Includes links to the report and to
omitted Bureau statistics
Analysis of the
City's 2007 Use of Force
Report
(3 pages, 4/25/07)
Background on the Independent Police Review Division (IPR)
Portland Copwatch analyzes the IPR's Annual Reports:
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IPR 2010 Annual Report ,
Some Improvement, Leaves Much to Be Desired
(7 pages, 6/7/11)
Read previous years' annual report analyses.
Read an analysis of the Auditor's "Independent Police Review
Division",
showing that it acts to shield police from scrutiny (5/21/01)
Chief Foxworth replies to eight questions
from Portland Copwatch (June, 2005)
Portland Votes to Withdraw Officers
from Joint Terrorism Task Force (April 28, 2005)
Report and background information on historic
2005 vote
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Reports
Read a
report on the Joint Terrorism Task Force (1/11/01)
Background on the Portland Joint Terrorism Task Force (PJTTF)
City Council passes "Terrorism Task Force" ordinance (11/22/00)
Read the Majority
Report of the
Mayor's PIIAC work group,
proposing a
strong police review board (Oct. 30, 2000)
Read our (1993-1996)
Proposal for an Effective Civilian Police Review Board
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Information
See a list of the top 25
settlements for
police
misconduct cases,
1993-2011 (REVISED 8/16/11)
Portland Copwatch sent a respresentative to the first International
Copwatch Conference in Oakland
July
13-15, 2007.
Report back on the
National
Conference on Police Accountability
held at Portland State University, October 15-17, 2004.
Read the Bike Rider's Bill of Rights and
Responsibilities
(also available in .pdf
format.)
Look at our Glossary currently under construction (8/2/02).
Download a "No Warrant, No Entry" flyer to
post at your
home.
Look at older, but still interesting stuff on our archive
page
Visit our list of
cool links
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