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75 Days Into a Portland Police Leak Investigation, No Answers

We’re still counting how long it takes to find the source of a police leak.

Police guard the scene of a shooting in Lents Park as a man appeals to them.
Lents shooting Police guard the scene of a shooting in Lents Park as a man appeals to them. (Justin Yau) (Justin Yau)

64 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 [Portland] 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.

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

63 DAYS: That’s how long it’s been since the city signed 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.