Justice Delivery Tools

A pair of hand-held applications have come to our attention. Connectivity and high-quality data sharing make both important tools for justice delivery. Both Continue reading →

Wild Life & Refuge

on the range. Give thought to organizational strategies, and change advocates’ operating environment, if you can get past a militia’s Continue reading →

Lured To a Digital Stakeout

- Using the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter triggers a law enforcement profile in Oregon DoJ’s ‘threat assessment’ database. We make a Federal Continue reading →

Walking While Black

- Seemingly insignificant racism in the crosswalk can produce significant consequences. Once in court or a hospital, racial disparities magnify. Continue reading →

#TAG

Objective: To entertain and to provoke dialogue and perhaps, on some level, to make a difference. Scant information to go Continue reading →

The Fix Comes In

City contract for police reform about to triple. No-bid contract handed out .. without community input as to improvements we’d Continue reading →

Abdicated Levels of Oversight

How many authorities look the other way, when they could play a vital role in police accountability? “In a society Continue reading →

Police Body Cameras & State Secrets

Should the state further cloak police conduct with secrecy? Body-worn cameras will make police cases, not legal cases against them. Continue reading →

Trojan Horse of Police Reform

Federal ‘police reform’ has, in Portland, Oregon, qualitatively reduced public involvement in police oversight. A ‘self-defeating accountability system’ was left Continue reading →

Be it enacted

Jo Ann Hardesty led public testimony on bill to track profiling by Oregon law enforcement. It prompts the state’s Attorney Continue reading →

Calling For a New Result

Who should analyze police misconduct? It’s time we take oversight out of cops’ hands. Police accountability experts ARE available. In Continue reading →

DoJ Reference Points

The US Attorney General for Civil Rights explained what he wanted out of a Settlement Agreement, ending Portland Police’s illegal use Continue reading →

Filed Away

A newly formed Community Oversight Advisory Board can benefit from Portland’s history of seeking improved police accountability. We’ve compiled a Continue reading →

A Sign of Things to Come?

We acknowledge police departments are taking innovative steps in building community trust. Chief Cam McLay thinks holding his men accountable Continue reading →

Incoming!

A revolution begins in Portland on 17 January. Justice DeMuniz presiding. You might want to come play your part in Continue reading →

Anatomy of the Grand Jury Process

England abandoned our Grand Jury process. Why shouldn’t Multnomah County? We appreciate that concerns grow, nation-wide, for police accountability. We Continue reading →

Color of Change & Cogent Police Reform Demands

Assess this list of demands for reform. We owe it to those bringing heat to police accountability, to offer up Continue reading →

What’s to Say?

What do we say, to folks who contend that, only by working within the system will you bring the police Continue reading →

City Rejects Public Input … Again

Local authority engages in patterns and practices of refuting public involvement, as it fails to hold police accountable. That public Continue reading →

The Road to Veterans Day

Leadership change often follows institutional failure. We assess reform language, offered by the nation’s latest Secretary of Veterans Affairs. It values change in Continue reading →

Human Rights Come Out as New Chief Comes In

Portland needs dialogue. The People require task-oriented police leadership, in the context of civil rights protections. More … The City Continue reading →

Subject Portland to Further Study

Called out to investigate racial injustice, the DoJ declared it outside the scope of a subsequent investigation. It’s time they Continue reading →

BE the Media

Jo Ann Hardesty, recently honored by the National Newspaper Publishers Association, responded to an invitation to address the Pacific Northwest Social Continue reading →

Tweet This

Four and a half years after their complicity in killing Aaron Campbell, an unarmed African American in the act of submission during Continue reading →

Call for an Independent Police Commission

Portland Oregon has an office of Police Commissioner. Entering the phrase in the City’s web site doesn’t bring up anything Continue reading →

Fiddling with the Numbers

When cops want City Hall to approve of some shenanigans, we often see the Chief’s request portrayed as if it arises from Continue reading →

Film the Police!

Portland has arrived at an interesting nexus, forming the basis of an important, structural element that will reform police engaged Continue reading →

City Plans to Deny Justice

Racial oppression continues in Portland because those in power lack humane, internalized and comprehensive value structures. Click the audio bar, Continue reading →

Prodded into $265,000 No-bid Contract

The City of Portland stands accused of violating The People’s civil rights. The DoJ pivoted away from racial profiling and unconstitutional Continue reading →

In Broad Dialogue

Jo Ann Hardesty will speak at two upcoming events. It has been a busy first quarter. A Community Response to Continue reading →