An Internal Investigation of a Portland Police Leak Is Now Two Months Old

It has released no results of its inquiry.

protland_peaceful_protest-27 Portland police block traffic from the West side of Burnside Bridge at a June 2020 protest. (Alex Wittwer)

50 days: That’s the number of days since Officer Brian Hunzeker resigned from his role as president of the Portland Police Association due to what the union described as a “serious, isolated mistake related to the Police Bureau’s investigation into the alleged hit-and-run by Commissioner [Jo Ann] Hardesty.”

We still don’t know what he did. The mayor’s office says it doesn’t know what he did. Hunzeker is still working patrol in the North Precinct.

61 days: That’s how long it’s been since the Portland Police Bureau opened an internal affairs investigation into the leaking of information that wrongly implicated Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty in a March 3 hit-and-run crash. It has released no results of its inquiry.

49 days: That’s how long it’s been since the city inked a contract to hire an outside investigative firm to probe the leak.

Tess Riski

Tess Riski covers cops, courts, protests and extremism. She joined Willamette Week in 2020.

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