News Portland police won a courtroom victory this morning against a prominent anti-war protester when a Multnomah County judge ruled that cops had probable cause to arrest peace activist Joe Walsh. After a two-day civil trial, Circuit Court Judge John Wittmayer this morning granted a request by deputy city attorney David Landrum to rule in the city's favor in a lawsuit brought by Walsh. Wittmayer ...   More

News Portland Police Officer Ronald Frashour has been ordered on leave after a review board recommended firing him for the Jan. 29 fatal shooting of Aaron Campbell, WW has learned from three sources in the police bureau. Frashour was put on leave late last week after the bureau's Use of Force Review Board recommended that Chief Mike Reese fire Frashour, but Reese has not yet made a final decision, ...   More

News News that the Portland police Use of Force Review Board recommended firing Officer Ronald Frashour for the fatal shooting of Aaron Campbell was met with cautious praise from activists today. "This is an appropriate response to the tragic death of Aaron Campbell," said Rev. LeRoy Haynes of the Albina Ministerial Alliance. "He died through error. He died through negligence." The AMA has called ...   More

News This morning's news in The Oregonian that Mayor Sam Adams and Police Chief Mike Reese have decided to reconstitute the volunteer-led budget advisory group for the Portland Police Bureau has one immediate side-effect: It expands the pool of Portlanders calling Adams "vindictive." T. J. Browning, who as of this morning is still listed online as the budget group's chairwoman, says the budget group ...   More

News City Council this morning voted unanimously 3-0 to approve the 19 members of Portland's new Police Review Board, one outcome of last winter's successful but arduous police-oversight reforms. Neither Mayor Sam Adams nor Commissioner Nick Fish attended today's meeting. Both are on vacation. But all three of the remaining commissioners waxed poetic about the significance of the change, none more ...   More

News A 64-year-old former lawyer was arrested this morning on allegations he secretly filmed women in the shower or having sex with him at his former home in Southeast Portland. Ronald Schaffner was booked into Multnomah County Detention Center on suspicion of four misdemeanor counts of invasion of personal privacy. On Sept. 16, Multnomah County Circuit Judge Stephen Bushong granted Portland Police ...   More

News An update to our story this week about an alleged assault by Portland Police Officer Michele Boer: Lt. Kelli Sheffer, spokeswoman for the Police Bureau, was at a homicide scene Tuesday afternoon and was unable to respond by press time to our questions about whether Boer may face discipline by the bureau. Sheffer called back after press time to say that internal affairs will investigate to ...   More