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Right...it wasn't a quotation, it was a paraphrase.
No one is throwing a tantrum.
People are exercising civil rights and are asking to have some one besides the police scrutinize the police. We do not live in a military state.
Unfortnately, some Portland police officers seem to be under the misapprehension that it is ok for them to kill people who don't follow instructions perfectly (James Chasse). Or the command staff seem to think that they can negotiate and descalate a situation but not bother to keep officers with bean bag rounds,an attack dog, or an assualt rifle in the loop, and that when some one dies in that situation (Aaron Campbell) they expect the people of Portland to accept this death as ok somehow. These are not minor complaints. They are collossal failures.
This makes even the good cops look bad, which isn't fair to the good ones. Good cops have nothing to fear from oversight.
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to paraphrase windiabbie:
The only police who have to fear oversight are the police who are breaking the law which if you recall is illegal.
Think about it...
posted 2 years, 2 months ago
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Police were called to the apartment because of concerns that Aaron Campbell was suicidal.
There is no crusade to describe police as violent. Officers are repeatedly killing people when there is no justification for that action. Nothing any individual can say can be more outlandish than the undisputed facts regarding some of the recent police-led killings.
The police bureau, the union and the City are too slow to respond when things go wrong. It's not that people hate cops. People hate a lack of justice and due process.
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There is nothing wrong with commending police when they do a good job. The point is that you can.
However, we citizens are unable to effectively complain and get redress when certain police officers don't do a good job. Concerning this discussion and proposed changes to the CRC/IPR-and we are talking about the ability to have a complaint investigated thoroughly and in a timely manner...the point is that we can't.
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The proposed changes are a good first step. I believe that a majority of our Portland officers are good people trying to do a difficult job. However, everyone at the PPB needs to know that the shooting death of a cooperating but suicidal man, Aaron Campbell, and the in-custody blunt force trauma death of an innocent man, James Chasse, Jr. (to name the two most recent deaths) are unacceptable! Chasse died in September of 2006, but we still do not have a final report and the officers involved have suffered little consequence...
If Chief Sizer had done her job and taken on the police union and applied discipline in the Chasse case, there might be a little more confidence the PPB today. Maybe Aaron Campbell would still be alive. It is an emergency situation when police kill innocent citizens with impunity!
Fritz, Saltzman and Fish say more time is needed, but perhaps they should be more honest and simply say they do not have the courage to stand up to the police union.
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