Street Blues: Show me your hands, and we’ll get along just fine My friends sometime ask me if I notice things now that I didn’t before I was an officer. I always mention hands. Hands manipulate the weapons, the weapons hurt people. After a number of years ...
10 Nov 2010 - Street Roots
New police column in SR — Street Blues: Black and white to gray Editor’s note: Street Roots welcomes Officer Robert Pickett to our line of diverse columnists. Picket offers a fresh perspective from the view of a police officer working directly with our st ...
13 Oct 2010 - Street Roots
Take the police out of crisis intervention business From the current edition of Street Roots Sam Adams, we have a very large problem on our hands. It's a practical problem for me, for every other medical professional in Portland, for leaders in the A ...
10 Mar 2010 - Street Roots
Police, “Cops” intrude on St. Francis diners Shortly after 5 p.m. on Sept. 10, at the height of the Thursday evening dinner at St. Francis, diners were disrupted by a slew of police and a camera crew who entered from either side of the dining hall with c ...
1 Oct 2009 - Street Roots
What happened to James Chasse? Today marks the third anniversary of the death of James Chasse at the hands of the Portland Police Bureau. The Mental Health Association of Portland, who is spearheading a documentary about the case, asked City Hall today to ...
17 Sep 2009 - Street Roots
Precinct shuffle brings new faces, attitudes to Southeast From the July 10 edition of Street Roots One month since the Portland Police Bureau’s June 11 consolidation of inner southeast Portland into Central Precinct, no one is quite sure what lasting effe ...
23 Jul 2009 - Street Roots
Sending out an S.O.S. Police, shelter workers and advocates work to piece together a month long pattern of violence By Rebecca Robinson Contributing Writer On a recent Friday afternoon at Sisters of the Road Café on Northwest Davis Street, women shared th ...
1 May 2009 - Street Roots
Two more cases add to 'The List' trial And oh yeah, the police want stimulus money to expand it... This morning, Multnomah County Judge Dale Koch heard two more cases pertaining to the Portland Police Bureau's "secret list" of dow ...
11 Mar 2009 - Street Roots