News  WW has obtained a working draft of the contract the Portland police union is negotiating with the city.The draft, received from a source inside the union, may come as a shock to many of the Portland Police Association’s 900 members. In return for making major concessions in a new contract on controversial items such as comp time, police oversight and drug testing for ...   More

News The Portland police union's push for better PR continues this month with a poll on public perception. Sgt. Scott Westerman (see photo), head of the Portland Police Association, says the union paid for a poll of hundreds of Portland residents this month to learn their opinion on public safety. "The PPA has hired a company to do polling of City of Portland residents to better communicate with ...   More

News Mad props go to Larry Bednar, the Northeast Portland statistician who came up with the killer stat in our story this week about Sgt. Scott Westerman's twin road-rage cases. Bednar spent part of his weekend calculating the odds that Westerman would randomly encounter the same vehicle at opposite ends of the metro area — once off I-205, and again two days later on the Beaverton-Hillsdale ...   More

News The Portland police union's headquarters has been vandalized for the second time this year, union leaders announced today in a news release. Windows on both the street-facing sides of the Portland Police Association building in Northwest Portland were broken overnight, the union says. Several windows were boarded up when we went by this afternoon to investigate. Vandals also hit the union ...   More

News As even his opponent predicted, Central Precinct Officer Daryl Turner today was elected president of the powerful Portland police union. Turner received 63 percent of the 675 votes cast, according to the Portland Police Association website. Sgt. Doug Justus received 37-percent support from the 900-member union. Turner will be sworn in this Friday, according to the union website. He'll complete ...   More