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As Portland School Board Votes to Fund More Cops in Schools, an Activist Tells a Harrowing Story of Guns Drawn Over a Missing Calculator

On Tuesday, the Portland school board voted to spend over $1 million a year to put nine police officers in public schools.

Even After City Council Unanimously Approves New Unarmed Police Hires, the Union Is Still “Frustrated”

Portland Police Association president Daryl Turner suggested the city take “a long look in the mirror” before criticizing the union.

Portland’s Mayor Is Struggling on the Job. And It’s About to Get Harder.

Next month will mark Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler’s second anniversary in one of the highest-profile jobs in Oregon politics—and he is struggling in a remarkably public manner.

Here’s What Portland’s Unarmed Cops Are Allowed to Do—and What They Aren’t

No driving patrol cars!

Portland Mayor Will Bring Proposal for Unarmed Police Officers to City Council Next Week

The Public Safety Support Specialists, or PS3s, will be non-sworn officers who do not carry guns.

Portland City Council Rejects Mayor’s Plan to Restrict Violent Protests

The ordinance created a rift between the mayor’s office and local civil rights advocates.

Civil-Rights Advocates Proposed An Alternative To Portland Mayor’s Protest Restrictions

City Council will vote on Mayor Ted Wheeler’s protest ordinance on Nov. 14.

Portland Commissioner-Elect Jo Ann Hardesty Tells Mayor: Protest Restrictions Are Likely to Be Unequally Enforced

“We see how police show up when white women protest and when people of color protest.”

She Learned the Ropes at One of the Most Corrupt Police Departments in the Country. Now Danielle Outlaw Runs the Portland Police—and She Wants More Power.

Outlaw is a smart, careful, cops’ cop who seems less interested in the kind of police reform her boss Wheeler campaigned on than in taking back control of the city’s streets.

A Dispute Over a “Satanic” Board Game and Perfume Blew Up a Meeting Between City Commissioner Chloe Eudaly and Black Constituents

On the conference room table in Eudaly’s office was what the visitors believed to be a Ouija board. “It was some sort of satanic, demonic game,” says North Portland resident Alicia Byrd.

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