Portland Copwatch : Cool Links

National/International
Local groups (Oregon)
City of Portland
Copwatch Groups Around The Nation

National/International

  • Amnesty International
    Amnesty focusing on police brutality in the U.S.
    Also see Amnesty's page on Race, Rights and Police Brutality
  • The American Civil Liberties Union's police practices page.
  • Anti-Racist Action
  • Stop Police Abuse national list-serv (on Yahoo Groups)
  • Shielded from Justice:
    The Human Rights Watch report on Police Brutality in the U.S.
  • National Police Complaint Center
  • Oct. 22 Coalition Against Police Brutality

    Local

  • PPB Complaint.Com
    A grassroots forum for complaints about the Portland Police Bureau
  • Northwest Constitutional Rights Center
    Created in 2004 following litigation on Bush and Iraq protest cases.
  • Oregon Action
    Organizes the grassroots on many issues including police accountability.
      •Together the NWCRC and Oregon Action produced a report on Racial Profiling
          after a series of community listening sessions in May-June 2006.
  • Alliance for Police and Community Accountability
    Created in 2003 after the shooting of Kendra James.
  • Flying Focus Video Collective
    Has tapes of national conferences and local police issues.
  • Portland's Indymedia site
    Has documents, video, stills and calendar listings on events and info including police accountability stuff.
  • ACLU of Oregon
    Protecting Civil Liberties, including strong work on oversight
    for the Portland Joint Terrorism Task Force.
  • We are not affiliated with Rose City Copwatch
  • Partnership for Safety and Justice
    Formerly the Western Prison Project, unites people convicted of crime, survivors of crime, and their families to redirect policies away from incarceration toward strategies that reduce violence and increase safety.
  • After Seventeen Years
    Local prison reform group. (Link not working 11/06)

    City of Portland and related sites

  • The "Independent" Police Review Division (IPR)
    Portland's current version of a civilian review board.
    IPR's complaint form
    NEW! 7/07IPR Appeal form
       File within 30 days if you received an unsatisfactory finding from the IPR/Police Bureau

  • Portland Police Bureau
  • Portland Police Association (the police "union")
    OK, maybe these aren't cool, but you should see what they have to say

    Also see

  • Portland Police Directives (.pdf format, roughly 500 pages)

    Copwatch Groups Around The Nation (and similar locally-based organizations)

    Note: Copwatch is a movement, not an organization, in the sense that these groups are not "franchises." Each group has its own strategies and tactics, though we all share the common goal of ending police misconduct.

  • Berkeley Copwatch
    Portland Copwatch owes a great debt of gratitude to Berkeley CW for much of its start-up information.
  • Copwatch LA (Los Angeles)
          •Los Angeles Copwatch how-to pamphlet
  • Santa Cruz (CA) Copwatch
  • Reedley (CA) Copwatch
  • San Francisco Police Watch

  • Olympia Copwatch
  • Phoenix Copwatch
  • Brooklyn Copwatch (Malcolm X Grassroots Movement)
  • (New Jersey) Copwatch
  • Western Mass. Copwatch
  • Austin Copwatch

    These sites are apparently under construction (6/06):

  • Texas Copwatch Project
  • Houston Copwatch
  • Dallas Copwatch
  • Denver Copwatch

    • Return to Copwatch home page

    To Peace and Justice Works home page

    Portland Copwatch
    Box 42456
    Portland, OR 97242
    (503) 236-3065/ Incident Report Line (503) 321-5120

    Updated July 21, 2007