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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! #50- May, 2010 (.pdf only--3.8 MB 6/10)

Shootings and Deaths in Custody

Information on Portland Police shootings and deaths in custody

Includes information on
the shooting of Aaron Campbell
the in-custody death of James Chasse, Jr.
and the shootings of James Jahar Perez and Kendra James

List of shootings and deaths 1992-May 2010 (Updated 5/14/10)

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

* Portland Copwatch's will present a
Your Rights and the Police Seminar
on Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Campus of St Francis Parish
SE 11th & Stark
Please pre-register by phone or email
RSVP now to secure your place, there will be a cut-off point to limit the number of participants.

-> Look here for announcements of other 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 is participating in the
IPR Stakeholder Workgroup (May-July? 2010)
evaluating changes to the Independent Police Review Division (IPR)
made in late March, 2010, to recommend further changes to Council

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

List of the top 25 settlements for police misconduct cases,
1993-2008 (REVISED 4/30/08)

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 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:
  * IPR 2009 Annual Report , Fails to Highlight Major Issues
  (7 pages, 6/25/10)
   IPR 2007 Annual Report , Continues Using Misleading Statistics
  (7 pages, 10/10/08, posted 1/1/09)
   Third Annual Report (2004), shows system still needs work
  (8 pages, 8/3/05)
   Second Annual Report (2003), continues to ignore community concerns
  (2 pages, 8/31/04)
   First Annual Report (2002), shows shortcomings in the structure
   (9 pages, 6/19/03)

Analysis of the Independent Police Review Division (IPR)'s
Tort Claim report, which calls for lawsuits to be handled
like complaints (9/20/04)

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,
1993-2008 (REVISED 4/30/08)

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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Portland Copwatch
PO Box 42456
Portland, OR 97242
(503) 236-3065/ Incident Report Line (503) 321-5120
e-mail: copwatch@portlandcopwatch.org
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Page last updated June 28, 2010