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Officer Charles F. Schoppe was shot and killedon June 13, 1874, as he entered the Cozey Saloon onFirst and Oak unarmed to arrest Robert Gibbenswho had just shot at a woman. Officer Schoppe was42, and married with two children.

Officer Schoppe had been with the force foralmost three years and was well respected by his fel-low officers and revered by the community heserved. The Cozey Saloon on First and Oak was just afew blocks away from Police Headquarters on Sec-ond and Clay and at the time of his death, he was onhis way to tender his resignation because he hadbeen offered and accepted the job of county jailor.

“Mr. C. F. Schoppe has been connected with thepolice force for more than two years. He was afaithful, vigilant and competent officer, ever readyand willing to discharge his duty, but a genial,humane gentleman withal. Deceased was one ofthe best officers connected with the present forceand much respected for his frank and manlydeportment. We do not believe he had an enemyin Portland.”

Immigrating from Germany in 1848, OfficerSchoppe and his wife Anna had four children. Trag-ically their oldest son Charles and youngest sonAlbert died of unknown causeswithin a month of each other in1870, four years before their

father was killed. His wife, ten-year-old son Fredand five-year-old daughter Anna survived him. Hiswife never remarried and passed away in 1902 atthe age of 63.

Gibbens, Schoppe’s murderer, was a native ofMaryland and a carpenter by trade. He wasdescribed as a “quiet, peaceably disposed man whensober, but when addicted to his cups, a quarrelsomeand dangerousindividual.”

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Officer Schoppe “Peace to his ashes”“Last Saturday evening, a little past 9 o’clock, the community was shocked bythe intelligence that Officer C. F. Schoppe,a well known member of the police force,was shot dead at the Cozey Saloon ... whilein the discharge of his duty as a guardian of the peace and that the murder was perpetrated in a cool, deliberate and mostcowardly manner, without the shadow ofprovocation.”

by Juanita Downing

Let’s give all the political power in Portland to the Mayor.That sounds like a good idea, doesn’t it? Given the level ofsupport officers receive from the Mayor historically, I thinkeverything would be fine, don’t you?I cannot recall a time in the 18 years I have worked in theBureau that a Mayor was ever publicly supportive of thepolice in a high-profile controversial incident. Mayors all tooquickly conclude that it’s not in their political interest tosupport us. I don’t know about you, but I think the future ofpolitical support for police in Portland is more likely to getworse than get better. You might think I’m cynical. I am andI bet you are too, distrusting of the motives of our politi-cians. I often say sarcastically, “all they want is what’s bestfor us,” right? Ballot Measure 26-91 would consolidate most of the City’spolitical and decision-making power and hand it to one indi-vidual, the Mayor. Under Ballot Measure 26-91, control overall the City’s bureaus, responsibility for collective bargain-ing, budget formulation, day-to-day administration of Citygovernment, and unfettered control over virtually all Cityfunctions would rest with one individual, the mayor. Afterthoughtful consideration, the Executive Board of the PPAdecided to oppose Ballot Measure 26-91’s move to a strongmayor form of government. The Board believes it is betterfor both Portland and the PPA to have power divided amongfive commissioners, as it has been for scores of years.The Board thought a lot about this issue. The Board heardfrom Mayor Tom Potter, the chief supporter of Ballot Mea-sure 26-91. The Board also heard presentations from Coun-cil Members Erik Sten and Randy Leonard, the primaryopponents of the strong mayor form of government. Boardmembers extensively questioned all three about the basisfor their positions.That Board had three choices –support the change, stay neu-

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ABOVE: Officer Charles F. Schoppe and his wife, Anna. In hishonor, Schoppe’s great-grandson, Fred Cormack, will receive aposthumous Medal of Valor at the 2007 Peace Officer MemorialDay Ceremony on May 14.

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CVU rebuttal to Measure 11 article p.11

LAPD 15 years later p.13

Planning for retirement p.16

Last month there was a lot ofdiscussion in the news about ChiefSizer stating that she was consid-ering lowering the educationalstandards for entry level policeofficers in Portland. The plan thatwas discussed would include low-ering the standard from the cur-rent 2-years-of-college to a highschool diploma or G.E.D.

In this issue, you’ll find theeditorial that The Oregonian

published in response to theChief’s idea.

It’s no secret that the Bureauhas had trouble recruiting newofficers for several years. It seemsas though for every two officersthat retire, we’re only able to hireone. Meanwhile, specialty unitsare being reduced or outright dis-banded because of the shortfallson the street.

I’ve asked several people in

Personnel about the hiring prob-lem and have gotten several dif-ferent answers on why it’s so diffi-cult to recruit: Too muchcompetition from other agencies,no financial commitment fromthe City to aggressively recruit,the negative portrayals of theBureau in the media, perceivedlack of support by City Hall.

I made suggestions to the twoChief’s prior to Chief Sizer onwhat I thought could be done toincrease new, qualified applicants.I think my suggestions, along withthe suggestions of others wentinto the “thanks for your inputfile” but were never acted on.

So, I’ll take another stab atmaking a suggestion and see whathappens.

First, don’t lower the entrancerequirements. Not yet anyway. Acollege degree doesn’t mean you’llbe a good cop. Some of the bestand brightest in the Bureau havelittle more than 2 years of college,some less. It’s the experiences youhave in college that can make youa good police officer.

Second, the Bureau has notdone a good job recruiting themilitary and needs to aggressivelyreach out to the soldiers, sailors,airmen and Marines and givethem a reason to apply. Taking anad out in the Navy Times orLeatherneck won’t cut it either.Reach out to officers in theBureau that have access to thesepeople and use them as aresource. Send a former Marineto Camp Pendleton to recruit.Have a Naval veteran go to Nor-folk or San Diego and talk abouthow great being a cop in Port-land can be.

How about sending care pack-ages to the troops overseas alongwith a brochure about theBureau? Let them know you havea place for them to apply whenthey return.

Our military services are themost diverse in the world. If thegoal is to increase the number ofwomen and minorities in the

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Police Bureau, why not recruit themost from the most diverseemployer in the world. Also, mem-bers of the military have beenfighting wars and conductingpeacekeeping missions, sometimesat the same time. I would advocatethat these veterans would be greatadditions to the Bureau as our mis-sions are not that different.

Next, start aggressivelyrecruiting other police agenciesthat don’t pay as well as Portland,based on the cost of living here.Try the NYPD, LAPD and theSan Diego Police for example.New York and San Diego in par-ticular would seem to be ripepickings for lateral transfers.Experienced police officers froma different part of the countrythat can hit the ground runninghere and would likely be veryhappy making more money thanthey are now and paying less forliving expenses.

Lastly, speed up the hiringprocess. I have talked to severalpeople that are applying withother agencies and they tell methat Portland is the slowest of all.I’ve never worked in Personnel soI can’t say what, if anything, canbe done but something needs tochange because we are losinggood candidates to other citiesthat have pay and benefits nearlyequal to ours.

Other things that should beconsidered are contractual innature, such as reversing thehealth benefits back to their pre-2004 levels, post retirementhealthcare, a deferred compensa-tion match, full reimbursementfor graduate school (undergradu-ate degrees are currently reim-bursed although the amountsshould be increased), and a wageincrease.

Another potential issue thatwould be attractive to new hireswould be retirement eligibility at25 years of service, regardless ofage, something that dispatchers arehoping House Bill 2401 gives them.

I checked a few police web-sites across the country andfound some really neat recruitingvideos available for viewing bypotential candidates. Perhapsspending some money with agood PR firm would be a benefit.Exciting videos, eye-grabbingprint ads, maybe a full-size bill-board in Manhattan like that col-lege in Eugene did for one of itsathletes might garner some morecandidates than we currently are getting.

The Bureau has got to do abetter job with recruiting andthese are just some of my ideashow to do it. Painting TriMet busbenches and handing out flyers atPortland Community Collegeisn’t going to get it done.

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Police officers have one of thetoughest jobs in the world. Todo it well requires guts, brains,maturity and some heart. Twoyears of college, four years, even10, will not in itself turn anyoneinto a gifted police officer.

Of course not. But that doesn’t mean a col-

lege education is of minimalvalue in policing. It also doesn’tmean that Portland, as a com-munity, should lower its educa-tional standards for officers.Recently, Portland Police ChiefRosie Sizer suggested doing justthat, thus launching a debateabout the idea. She hasn’tentirely embraced the idea yet.It’s worth debating, along withthe larger question of how toincrease police recruits, but itseems to us that lowering ourstandards is a bad idea.

For starters, it would be thesecond time in a decade that thebureau has lowered its sights.Former Police Chief Mark

Kroeker knocked the collegerequirement down from fouryears to two. Sizer’s now sug-gested taking it down to a highschool education, which simplyisn’t adequate.

As Sizer explains, though, low-ering the recruiting standardswouldn’t necessarily result in low-ering the caliber of the bureau’shires. The testing process wouldremain rigorous, and higher edu-cation would still weigh heavily ina candidate’s favor.

What would be different isthat high school graduates whodemonstrated exceptional charac-ter, aptitude or experience couldat least compete for a job. Overthe next few years, it’s true thatPortland needs to redoublerecruitment, especially ofwomen, African Americans andLatinos. The bureau also needs tostrengthen the incentives for offi-cers, once hired, to finish theirbachelor’s degrees and go on tograduate work. As crucial assome college is as a prerequisitefor policing, continuing educa-tion is even more vital.

Good police work demandsgood to excellent reading, writ-ing, thinking and speaking skills.Math is essential for accidentinvestigations; ability to workwith technology is necessary, too.But college is also good for anofficer in another sense; it helpsto enlarge his or her perspective,counteracting the depression andisolation that tends to darken andshrink an officer’s world into usversus them.

It’s not just that officers canexplore their own profession incollege criminal justice classes,although of course they can.College also helps people mapthe vastness of their own igno-rance, inspiring a desire to learnmore, or at least a certainhumility. It helps to cultivateflexibility and versatility.

(Ironically, Chief Sizer her-self exemplifies those qualities.She has an “ABD,” which is tosay she earned bachelor’s andmaster’s degrees in history andwent far toward her doctorate,All But Dissertation.)

Police need a degree of wis-dom that college alone can’tprovide. But college can helpboth individual officers andpolice organizations flourish.Instead of lowering the bureau’seducational standards, the chiefshould do everything in herpower to raise them.

Police officers need a degree - of wisdomLowering requirements for police officers wouldexpand the applicant pool, but it’s not a smart move

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mother of another critically ill PPA member toPortland from the east coast to assist with theofficer’s recovery. The Fund has also been usedto pay for the medical premiums for severalofficers who have been disabled and werewaiting for claim approval from FPD&R. Theseare just a few examples of how the OfficerAssistance Fund has made things better forPPA members in times of crisis.This year the golf tournament spots will fillfast. Please register early; an entry form is inthis month’s issue. Also, hole sponsorships arestill available. Please contact me if you know ofa business that would consider sponsoring ahole for the 2007 tournament, to be playedAugust 20th, with a 1:30 pm shotgun start.

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“Very naturally, his brother offi-cers and the community feelgreatly outraged and indignantat the unwarranted, unpro-voked, deliberate and cowardlymanner in which he was mur-dered. To such a pitch of indig-nation and excitement had thepublic mind reached soon afterthe circumstances of Schoppe’scowardly assassination becameknown, that it would not be dif-ficult to predict what the resultwould have been had the mur-derer fallen into the hands ofthe crowd. Had not the officersprudently taken Gibbens to jailas soon as they possibly could,we have little doubt but whatthe excited and thoroughlyaroused populace would havesuspended him to the first con-venient lamp post without shriftor prayer.”

Schoppe’s son Fred becamesuperintendent of mails in thelocal post office in 1888. From1890 to his retirement in 1928 he

worked in the railway mail serv-ice. He married Margaret Melv-ina Parker and they had a daugh-ter named Anna Louise. AnnaLouise married Alfred J. Corma-ck. They had three children, theyoungest a son named JamesFrederick Cormack, although hegoes by the name Fred.

Fred Cormack will be receiv-ing a posthumous Medal of Valorin honor of his great grandfatherOfficer Schoppe on Monday, May14th, at the Peace Officer Memo-rial Day Ceremony this year.Please try to attend to honor thisfallen hero and our other fallenofficers who died so long ago, butshould never be forgotten.

“Resolved – That in the death ofCharles F. Schoppe, we have losta loved companion, one faithfulin his trust as an officer; onekind to the afflicted, merciful tothe unfortunate, and yet alwaysbrave to confront danger when-ever met in the performance ofhis duties.”

Notes from the author: Italicizedtext is from The Oregonian, June15th, 1874. “Peace to His Ashes” isinscribed on the beautiful 7’ monu-ment his wife had built for him.


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“Through this generouspledge, NOBLE joins a growinglist of law enforcement organi-zations that have made it clearthat our nation needs this Muse-um,” said Craig W. Floyd,Chairman and CEO of theNational Law Enforcement Offi-cers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF).“Law enforcement is one of thepillars of our free and civil soci-ety, and yet it is a professionthat is often misunderstood ortaken for granted. Thanks to thesupport of NOBLE and so manyothers, this Museum will peelaway the mystery and help thepublic come to appreciate thevital role that law enforcementplays in our society,” he added.

“NOBLE has long been aleader and proud supporter ofthe NLEOMF and its work tohonor the service and sacrificeof our law enforcement offi-cers,” said NOBLE NationalPresident Jimmie Dotson. “Weare very excited that now,through the National LawEnforcement Museum, the com-plete story of law enforcementin America will be told, includ-ing the unique contributionsthat African-Americans havemade in protecting our commu-nities and advancing the lawenforcement profession,” saidDotson, retired Chattanooga(TN) Police Chief. NOBLE isone of the founding organiza-tions represented on the

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With groundbreaking sched-uled for the summer of 2008,the National Law EnforcementMuseum will be the largest andmost comprehensive museum ofits kind when it opens in 2011.The 90,000-square-foot, under-ground facility is being designedas a high-tech, interactive expe-rience that will feature drivingand use of force training simula-tors, a forensic lab and a 911emergency call center. TheMuseum will be located indowntown Washington, DC,adjacent to the National LawEnforcement Officers Memorial.

During its first year alone,the Museum is expected to bringmore than half a million visitorsto DC and generate $550,000 innew tax revenue for the city.

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Thomas G.O’ConnerAugust 8, 1867Gunshot

Charles F.SchoppeJune 13, 1874Gunshot

Samuel S. YoungSeptember 23, 1908Gunshot

Albert W. MoeJanuary 9, 1914Gunshot

James R. WhiteNovember 17, 1914Directing Traffic

Ralph H. StahlJanuary 27, 1915Gunshot

Charles E. VincentMarch 22, 1942Directing traffic

James A. HinesNovember 4, 1945Directing traffic

Dennis A. DardenAugust 9, 1974Gunshot

David W. CrowtherDecember 27, 1979Gunshot

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Jerome PalmerNovember 17, 1920Gunshot

Robert R. FerronMay 23, 1964Vehicle accident

James C. GillNovember 30, 1915Gunshot

John J. McCarthyJuly 21, 1916Directing Traffic

Robert E. DrakeOctober 11, 1930Killed in a fall

Charles M.WhiteJune 30, 1934Blow to stomach

Phillip R. JohnsonMay 9, 1941Gunshot

Roy E. MiznerFebruary 18, 1956Vehicle accident

Vernon J.StroederFebruary 18, 1956Vehicle accident

Roger L. DaviesApril 18, 1961Motorcycle accident

Robert P. MurrayMay 2, 1962Motorcycle accident

Stephen M. OwensSeptember 23, 1973Vehicle accident

Stanley D.PoundsJuly 18, 1984Vehicle accident

Thomas L. JeffriesJuly 21, 1997Gunshot

Colleen A. WaibelJanuary 27, 1998Gunshot

Kirk A. HuffstetlerMay 26, 2002Vehicle accident

Police Officers who gave theirofficial duties. Never forget.

“In valorthere is hope”

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Several years ago, I remembersitting on the couch at the homeof a woman named Arlene Lewis.She was on oxygen and only hada matter of weeks to live. Cancerhad taken its deadly hold. Yet,friends and family had gatheredat her home and Arlene was inher usual good spirits. After all,

everyone wasthere torememberand honor herson, Scot S.Lewis, aWashington,D.C. Metro-politan Police

Officer who was shot and killedin October 1995.

Earlier in the day a memorialservice was held at the cemeterywhere Scot was buried. Scot’spartner, Keith DeVille, had spo-ken about his friend and col-league. He told of how they werejust seven minutes from going offduty when they were flaggeddown by a motorist who neededhelp. According to Keith, the sit-uation was right up Scot’s alley— he loved to help people.

The man, it turned out couldneither speak, nor hear. Later, itwas learned that the man wantedto report that his home had beenburglarized. But Scot wouldnever know. As they waited foran interpreter to arrive, another

motorist drove up and pretendedto know the deaf man. His namewas Melvin Darnell Pate. Heengaged in some friendly conver-sation, then got out of his car,walked up to Scot, pulled out agun and without any provocationwhatsoever, shot him in the headat point-blank range. Pate hadbeen on a three-day drug bingeand simply decided to go out andkill a cop. He tried to escape aftergrabbing Scot’s gun, but OfficerDeVille fatally shot him as hewas attempting to get away.

Like Scot Lewis, so many ofthe officers honored at theNational Law Enforcement Offi-cers Memorial in Washington,D.C. were simply offering a help-ing hand when they were tragi-cally taken from us.

On May 11, 1924, Wilmington(DE) Police Matron Mary T.Davis was allalone on thesecond floorof the Wilm-ington jail-house withthe onlyfemale pris-oner, awoman named Annie Lewis whohad threatened her husband witha pistol. When Matron Davisnoticed water coming out ofLewis’s cell, she unlocked thedoor and went in to help. It was

all a ruse, though. Lewis had bro-ken the water pipe leading to thesink and used it to break pieces ofconcrete from the cell wall. Assoon as Davis entered, Lewis usedone of the chunks of concrete tolaunch a vicious and fatal attackagainst the 67-year-old policematron. The funeral processionfor Matron Davis was the largestWilmington had ever seen. Theinscription on her gravestoneexplains why. It reads, “Mary T.Davis — A Friend to All.”

Charlie Barton was a 35-year law enforcement veteranwho served with the LoudounCounty (VA) Sheriff’s Depart-ment. He had a way of liftingthe spirits of those around him,usually with a joke, but his

friend andcolleague,Tod Thomp-son, said,“When thebell rang,Charlie wentto work.” OnAugust 21,

1995, Deputies Barton andThompson were on a flight toMississippi to bring a wantedfelon back to Virginia whentheir plane experienced enginetrouble and crashed. The twodeputies survived the crash, butwere unwilling to leave theplane until they helped theother passengers out first. As hewas offering assistance, DeputyBarton was hit hard by a flash offire when the plane exploded.He clung to life for another 14hours before he succumbed tohis severe burns.

Jimmy O’Connor seemed tobe living a life of destiny. Twen-ty-seven years earlier he was

born at homeon the bath-room floor,delivered bytwo police-men. It onlymade sensethat Jimmywould go on

to become a Chicago police offi-cer. On September 16, 1995,Jimmy was off duty and sitting inhis truck talking to two femalefriends standing alongside whenanother car pulled up and a manreached out and snatched one ofthe women’s purses. Jimmyimmediately gave chase and aftermanaging to overtake the othervehicle and blocking its path, hegot out with gun drawn andidentified himself as a police offi-cer. Shots were exchanged andboth Jimmy and the other shoot-er were killed.

Texas State Trooper MarkPhebus, 23, was on his wayhome to Houston after a week-end visit with friends in Okla-homa whenhe spottedwhatappeared tobe a two-cartraffic acci-dent along theside of theroad. It wasafter midnight on September 17,1990, and Trooper Phebusstopped to offer assistance. Afteridentifying himself as a policeofficer to the man and woman

involved, he walked back to hiscar to get a flashlight. Everythingseemed routine up to that point.But Trooper Phebus had unknow-ingly placed himself in a terriblydangerous situation. The trafficaccident was actually the result ofa violent domestic disputebetween a man and his estrangedwife. When Mark went to get hisflashlight, the man got a handgunfrom his car. As Trooper Phebus approached, the manpointed the gun at Mark’s faceand pulled the trigger.

At the funeral, Pastor WayneHicks said, “Mark chose to live alife of service to others . . . he diedfor what he believed in. He mayhave saved a woman’s life thatnight. Mark died a death of honorand valor.”

Patrolman Thomas Strunk, athree-year veteran of the Billerica(MA) Police Department, was alsooff duty onMarch 27,1985, when heput himself atrisk. He wason his wayhome from thedoctor’s officewith his wife,Nancy, and three young sons inthe car with him. They were just afew miles from home when Tomsaw a car ahead of him swervingall over the road. After followingthe vehicle for a short distance hebecame convinced that the driverwas probably drunk and posed aserious threat to others on theroad. He decided to pull the carover. He walked to the man’s car,identified himself as a police offi-cer, and asked the driver to pleasestep out of his vehicle. Instead, theman immediately tried to flee. Nodoubt the man’s drunken state, hisprior criminal record and thedrugs he had in the car all con-tributed to that decision.

Patrolman Strunk reactedquickly. He reached into the carand tried to shut the engine offand take away the keys. But theman rolled the car window up,trapping Tom’s arm. The manthen sped off, dragging Tomalongside at speeds reaching 55miles per hour. With his wifeand sons watching from their carin horror, the car crashed into apole and Tom died less than anhour later.

As so often happens in drunkendriving cases, the man who mur-dered Tom Strunk threw himselfon the mercy of the court and pleabargained a light sentence. Mean-while, Nancy and her three sonscling to the memories of a won-derful husband and father — aman who died helping otherswhile doing the job he loved.


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Recent appointments, transfers, and promotions.

Sergeant John ANDERSON (DPSST # 24003)North Precinct transferred to East Precinct. Police Officer Steven ANDRUSKO (DPSST #29502) Central Precinct was promoted toSergeant and assigned to East Precinct. Police Officer Melissa BISHOP (DPSST # 18974)Operations Support / Telephone Report Unit trans-ferred to East Precinct. Police Officer Charles R. BROWN (DPSST #14738) was medically laid-off effective. Police Officer Donna BROWN (DPSST # 46312)was terminated from the Bureau. Police Officer Royce CURTISS (DPSST # 46427)Northeast Precinct was placed on Leave of Service.Sergeant James DAKIN (DPSST # 25235) EastPrecinct transferred to Central Precinct. Police Officer Brenda DEAN (DPSST # 26130)Central Precinct was promoted to Detective andassigned to the Detective Division. Police Officer Andrew FEIST (DPSST # 38844)Southeast Precinct transferred to School Police. Police Officer Kristy GALVAN (DPSST # 30402)Central Precinct was promoted to Sergeant andassigned to North Precinct. Sergeant William GOFF (DPSST # 26748) SchoolPolice transferred to the Drugs and Vice Division.Police Officer Hythum ISMAIL (DPSST # 41302)East Precinct was placed on Administrative Leave. Sergeant Denney KELLEY (DPSST # 12418)North Precinct transferred to the Transit Division. Police Officer Brian KELLY (DPSST # 29353) EastPrecinct was promoted to Sergeant and assigned toNorth Precinct.Sergeant Michael KRANTZ (DPSST 28269) Drugsand Vice Division transferred to ROCN.Police Officer Christopher KULP (DPSST # 40730)North Precinct transferred to School Police. Police Officer Joseph LUIZ (DPSST # 23994)Transit Police Division was promoted to Detectiveand assigned to the Detective Division.

Police Officer David MCCORMICK (DPSST #28717) East Precinct was placed on Leave ofService. Police Officer Anthony MERRILL (DPSST #35227) School Police was promoted to Detectiveand assigned to the Detective Division. Police Officer Jennifer MUSSER (DPSST # 40710)Northeast Precinct transferred to Operations Sup-port / Telephone Report Unit. Police Officer Christina NELSON (DPSST #28000) East Precinct was placed on Administra-tive Leave. Police Officer Elizabeth PEARCE (DPSST #29214) Operations Support / Telephone ReportUnit transferred to Southeast Precinct. Police Officer Richard STAINBROOK (DPSST #27833) Northeast Precinct was promoted toSergeant and assigned to Southeast Precinct.Police Officer Matthew STIMMEL (DPSST #29990) North Precinct was promoted to Sergeantand assigned to Southeast Precinct. Detective Paul WEATHEROY (DPSST # 19502)Detective Division / Cold Case Detective wasappointed Cold Case Sergeant.

Appointments

Joseph COOK (DPSST #48042) was appointedthe rank of Police Officer and assigned to the Train-ing Division.Douglas DICKSON (DPSST #48047) wasappointed the rank of Police Officer and assignedto the Training Division.Robin DUNBAR (DPSST #47968) was appointedthe rank of Police Officer and assigned to the Train-ing Division.Joshua SPARKS (DPSST #48052) was appointedthe rank of Police Officer and assigned to the Train-ing Division.

Retirements

Police Officer Gregory SEAMSTER (DPSST #13994) Northeast Precinct will retire from theBureau after twenty-six years of service effectiveMarch 21, 2007. Detective John WRIGLEY (DPSST # 15037) Fam-ily Services Division / CAT retired from the Bureauafter twenty-six years of service effective March29, 2007.


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The National Law Enforcement Officers MemorialFund has posted on its website the names of the382 fallen officers that will be officially dedicatedon the Memorial during the 19th Annual Candle-light Vigil on Sunday, May 13, 2007. This year during National Police Week the names ofthe 145 officers who died in the line of duty in 2006will be added to the memorial wall in Washington,D.C., along with the names of 237 previously fallenofficers, some from the early 1800s, which have beenverified by the NLEOMF’s research staff. The 145 new officer names being added to theMemorial this year is down seven percent from the2005 number and is the lowest annual total since1999, when 143 fallen heroes were added. Pleasenote that the 382 names will not be available inthe organization’s online database search untilthey have been engraved on the Memorial Wall. For more information and to view the names onlinevisit www.nleomf.org.

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Today we know there was norape and now not even a case atall, but even in those early days itwas apparent enough that therewere glaring problems with theaccuser’s story (or, as it hap-pened, stories). But not eventhose problems prevented thecase from consuming the atten-tion of the sages in our nationalmedia, whose foot soldiersdecamped from New York andLos Angeles and such places todescend on Durham, North Car-olina, as quickly as they couldfind it on the map.

The case was simply irre-sistible to our sophisticated bet-ters in Manhattan and the tonierzip codes of southern California.The “victim” was black and a sin-gle mother, each in itself a shieldagainst criticism, but takentogether an impregnable defenseagainst any judgment of her ownbehavior and motives. Further-more, she claimed to have beenattacked by a group of southernwhite elites, thus justifying thelow opinion of such elites held by

those who live within sight of thePacific Ocean or the HudsonRiver. (Never mind that none ofthe accused were actually fromthe south.) Only when the evi-dence of the defendants’ inno-cence and of the prosecutor’smisconduct accumulated to anundeniable critical mass did themedia slink off to await the nextBig Story.

Compare the attention giventhe Duke case with that accordeda far more heinous crime, onewhose victims have thus far failedto arouse the sympathies or eventhe notice of those who found somuch enjoyment in their con-demnation of the lacrosse players.Chances are, unless you live inTennessee, you will not recognizethe names Channon Christian andChristopher Newsome. Christian,21, and Newsome, 23, both ofKnoxville, were driving throughthat city together on the night ofJanuary 6 when they were kid-napped and murdered. New-some’s burned body was foundalong some railroad tracks on

January 7. Christian remainedmissing for two more days untilher body, stuffed in a trash can,was found in a home not far fromwhere Newsome’s was found.Police and prosecutors allegeboth victims were raped beforebeing killed. Yes, both. Threemen and a woman have beencharged with the crimes in a 46-count grand jury indictmenthanded down in Knoxville onJanuary 31.

The story was given a fewbrief mentions on the AP wire,which were in turn carried onthe Fox News and ABC Newswebsites, but you’ll find no men-tion of the crime in the onlinearchives of CNN, MSNBC, CBSNews, the New York Times, orthe Washington Post. Run a simi-lar search for stories on the Dukecase and you’ll be sifting throughthe results for hours. It’s not asthough these news providershave shied away from crimesince being embarrassed in theDuke case. For example, whenTara Grant went missing fromher suburban Detroit home inFebruary, the investigation grewand grew in media attention untilit became a national story. An APstory appearing on the MSNBCwebsite ran under the headline,“Mich. case a perfect recipe formedia frenzy.” And indeed itwas. When Grant’s dismemberedbody was discovered inside her

home, triggering a manhunt forher husband and his eventualarrest, the coverage ramped upnearly to the point of Laci Peter-son-type saturation. Only the car-nival surrounding Anna NicholeSmith’s death kept the Grant mur-der from being the Story of theMonth. Yet the murders of Chan-non Christian and ChristopherNewsome are known to almost noone outside Tennessee. Why?

Its simple: the four suspectsaccused of killing Christian andNewsome are blacks from theinner city of Knoxville.

Uh oh, we’re not supposed totalk about such things, are we?We’re careful to step ever so gin-gerly around issues of race andcrime, except of course whenthere is an opportunity, as in theDuke case, to point to a group ofprivileged whites and say, “See?Look at how badly they’vebehaved! Look at how they treat-ed that poor black single moth-er!” And in the Michigan case wecan look down our noses at aprosperous suburban white fami-ly and say, “Look how screwedup they are!” A visitor from a for-eign land might read the newsand suspect America was plaguedby rampaging hordes of collegiatelacrosse players and middle-agedsuburbanites. And all the whilethe far more serious problem ofviolent crime among minoritiesin our inner cities is almost com-pletely ignored.

To even broach the topic ofinner city crime is almost a socialtaboo, rather like discussing thebride’s old boyfriends at a wed-ding reception. But the figures, asthey say, do not lie, and we do noone a service by trying to ignorethem. Here in Los Angeles, forexample, there were 481 murders

investigated by the LAPD in2006, but almost half of themoccurred among the 18 percent ofthe city’s population living inSouth and South-Central L.A.These areas are almost exclusive-ly black and Latino.

Looking at the numbers moreclosely, blacks are about 11 per-cent of the city’s population, butin 2006 they were 36 percent ofits murder victims and 40 percentof its known murder suspects.Latinos make up 46 percent ofthe city’s total population andwere about half of its murder vic-tims and suspects. Whites areabout 29 percent of the popula-tion in Los Angeles but last yearwere only 4 percent of the city’smurder victims and 2 percent ofits known murder suspects.

To its credit, the Los AngelesTimes has begun bringing somesmall measure of attention tothese disturbing numbers in theform of its new online feature,the Homicide Report, whichtracks every murder occurring inLos Angeles County and includesinformation on each victim’srace. The inclusion of this infor-mation has been criticized insome quarters, and the Times’response to this criticism deservesquoting at length:

. . . The Homicide Reportdeparts from this rule [againstmentioning a victim’s race] in theinterest of presenting the mostcomplete and accurate demo-graphic picture of who is at riskof dying from homicide in LosAngeles County. Race and eth-nicity, like age and gender, arestark predictors of homicide risk.Blacks are vastly more likely to

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The article discusses trends incorrections and public safetyfunding versus higher educationfunding, the causes of Oregon’sdramatic decrease in violentcrime post-Measure 11, thecost/benefit ratio of incarcera-tion, and other issues. It quotesviews or references data from 18sources in the main article andfour sources in the sidebar enti-tled “The law didn’t deter, butdid sideline.”

Although Crime Victims Unit-ed is well known as among theprimary advocates for anddefenders of Measure 11 in thelegislature and the public arena,the article’s author, EdwardWalsh, did not contact us to dis-cuss any of these issues.

He did interview DavidRogers, the director of a prisoneradvocacy group formerly namedWestern Prison Project whichhas repackaged itself as “Partner-ship for Safety and Justice” andwhich is the primary opponent ofMeasure 11.

The Oregonian saw fit to runa sidebar that tells the story oftwo armed robbers, but it did notsee fit to tell the story of any vic-tims in Measure 11 crimes.

If The Oregonian had deemedit worthwhile to run a sidebarfrom the victim’s point of view,here is what we might have read:

“Good morning. Well, I’m acrime victim and the perpetratoris in jail for 54 years and ninemonths. He was up for 111 yearsbut they gave him concurrentsentences.

“The crime that I wentthrough with my daughterchanged my life and hers forever.

“I was a very successful pro-fessional in the real estate field.

I no longer work in real estate.I’m not comfortable going outwith strangers. I’m not comfort-able being in closed places. I’mnot comfortable in my life at allanymore.

“And you’d think I’d be over itby now. I’m not.

“And do I get money to sendme to counseling or this or that?No. Nothing.

“Pay whatever you need topay to keep these guys in jailbecause he would do it again.

“After our crime, he wasn’tarrested. He wasn’t found. Hewas found two-and-a-half yearslater leaving the rape of a 50-plus-year-old woman who wasraped in front of her disabledhusband in a wheelchair.

“He deserves to be in prisonfor 54 years and nine monthswith no parole.

“I’m sorry, I’m very, veryemotional about this right now.

“Give me the phone book. I’llcall everyone in the phone bookto stop anything that diminishesMeasure 11. Because I know he’sgone, other people are gone.They’re in prison, they can’t getout. And that’s exactly wherethey should be.

“And let’s take a little moneyout of the bureaucracy and put itinto the prison and forget aboutletting them out.”

- Linda, caller to the Jeff KropfShow on KXL Radio, SundayApril 22, 2007

The only conclusion we cantake from the lack of balance inthis article is that The Oregonianpublished a partisan advocacypiece on the front page of itsSunday edition. If The Oregonianis going to be an advocate, itshould drop the pretense of beingan objective news source.

RebuttalThe article included many

points of fact and opinion whichwe challenge here:

“Prison costs shackling Oregon”This is the title of article. In

the 2005-2007 biennium, totalspending for prisons is about$900 million, total spending forall education is $15.5 billion, thetotal state budget is $42.8 billion.These figures represent fundingfrom all sources including statetaxes, federal taxes, propertytaxes, tuition and fees. By citingonly general fund spending, TheOregonian article masks the truemagnitude of prison spendingrelative to the total budget.“How much prisons cost you”

This caption for a sidebarfrom the article shows the per-household spending for prisonsand public safety was $632 in1985-1987 versus $1,133 in2005-2007 in inflation-adjusteddollars. Since a major thrust ofthe article is an analysis of theeconomic effect of Measure 11,which took effect in 1995, itmakes no sense to compare cur-rent spending to 1985-1987. Itshould be compared to the1993-1995 biennium.

More glaring is the omissionfrom this graphic and from theentire article of the cost to tax-payers for locking up 3,500armed robbers, kidnappers,child molesters, forcible rapists,murderers and other violentcriminals who would be on thestreet except for Measure 11.

We asked the Legislative Fis-cal Office what Measure 11 costtaxpayers in the current bienni-um. The answer was $223 mil-lion, a lot of money to be sure.But it amounts to just $31 perOregonian per year. This is lessthan the monthly cost of cabletelevision for most families. Andit pales into insignificance com-pared to the “crime tax” extractedfrom Oregonians by criminalseach year.“In the next two years, the statewill spend tens of millions moretax money to lock up prisoninmates than it does to educatestudents at community collegesand state universities.”

This is the first paragraph ofThe Oregonian article. It is

Oregonian publishesbiased article on Measure 11, prisons, and budgetOn Sunday, April 22, 2007, the lead story on the frontpage of The Oregonian was entitled “Prison Costs Shack-ling Oregon.” The gist of the story was that Measure 11,Oregon’s mandatory minimum sentencing law for violentcriminals and child molesters, was “shackling” the state bydevouring funds that should go for other purposes.

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wrong. In fact, it’s not even close.Crime Victims United asked

the Legislative Fiscal Office todetermine the amount of taxpay-er money devoted to Higher Edu-cation in the Governor’s 2007-2009 budget. The answer we gotwas $3.9 billion. This excludestuition. Community Colleges are aseparate budget item that addsanother $638 million (not includ-ing property tax revenue that theyalso receive) for a total of $4.5 bil-lion. This compares to about $1.1billion for prisons. The Oregon-ian’s lead paragraph is simply fac-tually wrong.“As legislators and the governordebate how much money tospend on schools and higher education, there is little discus-sion in Salem about spiralingprison costs.”

Nothing could be furtherfrom the truth. A well-fundedcriminal advocacy group hasraised this issue in dozens ofhearings. The chair of the Ways& Means Subcommittee on Pub-lic Safety, a prominent prisoneradvocate, has made this thefocus of his efforts. He went sofar as to bring the President ofthe University of Oregon into ahearing to testify that prisonspending is adversely affectingthe higher education budget. InDecember a major seminar washeld in Portland during whichseveral influential legislatorswere panelists and spoke atlength about the cost of prisons.

On March 26th, a hearing onthe “Smart on Crime Bill”, SB856, was held during which legis-lators pounded on the prisonspending issue.

This has been a subject of fre-quent conversation during theprocess of generating the gover-nor’s budget and in the legisla-ture’s Ways & Means Committee,and in many other venues.

Oregon Violent CrimeRate and Prison Construction, 1960-2005

Without the huge increase inviolent crime from 1960 to 1980,an increase not mentioned in TheOregonian article, we would haveno Measure 11 because it wouldnot be needed.

It bears noting that thisobscene increase in violent crimecame during a period where the“tough-on-crime” view waslooked upon as barbaric and the

soft approach, which held sway,was considered enlightened. Theenlightened people somehowfailed to notice the nearly 700percent violent crime rateincrease. Now people espousingsimilar views once again claimthe enlightened mantle and arefighting to retake control of thecriminal justice system.

Furthermore, the article neg-lected to say that prison popula-tion growth is leveling off. TheApril, 2007 Prison PopulationForecast says:

“The rate of growth in theprison population has been grad-ually slowing. Comparing bienni-al growth rates shows that thepopulation grew by 15.7 percentin the 1999-01 biennium, 12.2percent in 2001-03, and 7.3 per-cent in 2003-05. Growth in thecurrent biennium is expected tobe 5.4 percent (697 beds), while4.3 percent growth (589 beds) isexpected for the next biennium.”“With so many criminals lockedup, both Oregon and the nationhave seen a steady decline inviolent crime rates. In Oregon,there were about five violentcrimes — homicide, rape, rob-bery and aggravated assault —per 1,000 population in the1980s compared with 2.8 crimesin 2005.”

What the article fails to men-tion is that, from 1995, whenMeasure 11 went into effect,until 2002, Oregon led all statesin decreased violent crime rate.This came on the heels of 25years of skyrocketing violentcrime (1960-1985) followed by 10years during which violent crimewas roughly flat near peak levels.From 1995 to 2002, Oregon’s vio-lent crime decreased by 44 per-cent compared to 28 percent forthe nation as a whole.“But the decline has leveled offin recent years. A growing con-sensus among researchers con-cludes that the benefits oflonger sentences diminish as astate prison system grows. Theirstudies show that each new celladded to a prison system has lessimpact on crime than earlieradditions because so manycareer criminals already arelocked up.”

It is true that this notion ofdiminishing returns has gainedpopularity. It may be correct. Butwe wonder why researchersthink a career-child molesterconvicted in 2005 would be anyless prolific than a career-childmolester convicted in 1995.

Consider this case, reported byThe Oregonian the day beforethe Measure 11 article appeared:

A Northeast Portland man

pleaded guilty to manslaughterFriday for killing a man in Gre-sham last fall by plowing a stolenvehicle into the victim’s carwhile trying to escape police.

Tyson Robert MacKay, 24, wassentenced to 10 years in prison inMultnomah County Circuit Courtfor killing Christopher Grassl, 22.

Janet Grassl, the mother of thevictim, held a picture of her son incourt Friday. Facing MacKay, shesaid, “I want you to see whose lifeyou took. None of this is an acci-dent. You had control of the cir-cumstances. You could havestopped this before it ever started.”

According to court records,MacKay has been convicted ofburglary, assault, violating astalking order, witness tampering,driving with a suspended licenseand several other traffic-relatedoffenses. He pleaded guilty todriving under the influence ofintoxicants in 2004 and hadentered a diversion program.(emphasis added)

Although it is 12 years afterMeasure 11 went into effect, wesuspect that incarcerating Mr.MacKay in 2007 will return thesame benefits as incarcerating ahabitual-criminal-drunk-driver-killer in 1995.

Clearly the diminishing returnshere came, as they have in so manycases, from letting a habitual crimi-nal get away with contempt for thecriminal justice system.“Such findings have spurredstates such as Washington tostudy alternatives to buildingmore prisons.”

Oregon is already a world-beat-er when it comes to alternatives toincarceration. According to theOregon Criminal Justice Commis-sion, in 2005, 84 percent of con-victed felons received probationsentences. Just 16 percent of con-victed felons went to prison.“The cost-benefit ratio of prisonexpansion has also diminished. In1994, each additional $1 spent onincarceration yielded $3.31 inreduced crime costs, the studysaid. By 2005, the benefit per $1spent was $1.03, barely above thebreak-even point.”

The article neglected to men-tion the following statement fromthe Oregon Criminal JusticeCommission’s 2007 Report to theLegislature:

“This estimate has also beendone for Washington by theWashington State Institute ofPublic Policy. They examined thebenefits of incarcerating violentoffenders, property offenders anddrug offenders. They found thatit is much more cost-effective to

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My first year as a cop, 1998,my perspective was changed alittle by a third-striker who wentby the moniker of Nine-Nine. Hecarjacked a woman right in frontof my partner and me — at Flo-rence and Normandie, no less,the infamous epicenter of theriots, where Damian “Football”Williams bashed in ReginaldDenny’s head with a concreteblock and danced his sadistic jigfor the news helicopters.

After Nine-Nine’s carjacking,there followed a vehicle pursuit,a foot pursuit and a fight. Thatwas the first time I had to use mybaton. It wasn’t pleasant for me,and I know it wasn’t pleasant forNine-Nine. And if there’d been avideo, it wouldn’t have beenpleasant to watch.

I’m not an LAPD apologist, andthis isn’t John Wayne in “TheGreen Berets” telling DavidJanssen that you can’t make anomelet without breaking a fewskulls. It’s just that civilians havethe option of walking away froma fight. But cops often don’t. Some

of these hard-core felons are apexpredators, red in tooth and claw,and they don’t want to be arrest-ed. They’ll run from you. If youcatch them, they’ll fight you. Andif you let them, they’ll kill you. Ithappens faster than you think,and you don’t have the option ofslowing the fight down toadvance it frame by frame.

After Rodney King and afterthe riots, it became fashionablefor journalists, politicians andactivists to talk about the need tochange the culture of the LAPD,as though we’re a bunch of hold-out Confederates who refused toturn in our sabers after Appomat-tox. Formal critiques came fromtwo blue-ribbon panels — theChristopher and Webster com-missions — that changed howthe chief is appointed and thepolice commission operates, andthey demanded an emphasis oncommunity policing.

So, has the LAPD evolved sincethe riots? You bet. We’re betterequipped, more diverse, moresophisticated, more racially sensi-tive. I also honestly believe that, asa result, we are more responsive tothe communities we serve. Still, noamount of racial sensitivity willmake an ex-con want to go back toprison. And the next time officershave to arrest some dude with hishead full of PCP, I can promiseyou it’s still going to be ugly,because the application of physicalviolence is ugly.

When Bernard Parks waspolice chief, we had to watchNordstrom’s customer servicetraining videos, and we had torefer to arrestees as “clients.” Istill don’t intend to let a clienttake away my gun and give mean unscheduled lobotomy withit. In police work, violence isn’t

always a failure of diplomacy. Sure, we’ve had our share of

thugs in uniform through theyears, but I have to say that has-n’t been my experience of thisdepartment’s culture. Make nomistake. It’s still us against them,our magic against theirs. But the“them” we battle isn’t the com-munity we serve; it’s the jackalswho prey on it.

On April 24, I stood humbledin the courtyard behind 77thStreet Station with 100 othercops. Lt. Doug Young, Dets. D.C.Webb, Guy Bourgeois, ChuckTizano, Rich McCauley and Offi-cer Charles Howard were retir-ing. These men embody the cul-ture of the LAPD, and there’snothing recalcitrant or retrogradeabout them.

Each of them has more timeon the job than I have on theplanet. Into their 60s and 70s,these guys were still clearingcases, still arresting bad guys, stillserving the people of South-Cen-tral. They stood shoulder toshoulder during the 1992 riots,protecting South-Central even asits residents raged against every-thing they stood for. In the yearsthat followed, they watched chiefsarrive beloved and leave belea-guered. They worked through theRampart scandal and finally aconsent decree — monitored forcivil rights violations by a federalgovernment that favors secret tri-bunals and condones torture.None of it changed the way thesemen conducted themselvesbecause this was never just a jobfor them. It was their vocation.

They were treating addictsand gangsters with humanityand respect long before theChristopher Commission toldthem they had to. Becausethey’re honorable men.

This is the culture of theLAPD. Pray it never changes.

Will Beall, author of the novel “L.A.Rex,” is an officer with the LAPD’sSouth Bureau gang homicide unit.This opinion piece appeared in theApril 29, 2007 edition of The LosAngeles Times.

The LAPD15 years laterHow the police force has changed — and stayed tough — after the 1992 riots.

by Officer Will BeallLAPD

tral, or oppose it. The Board fundamentallyand strongly believes that a strong mayorform of government would be bad for thePPA. For that reason, it elected to opposeBallot Measure 26-91, and to contribute

$25,000 to the No on Ballot Measure 26-91campaign. Other City unions felt the sameway, contributing between $10,000-$35,000 to the opposition campaign. Now it’s time for you to join in the effort. If youlive in the City, make sure you vote againstBallot Measure 26-91. Talk to your friends andneighbors about Measure 26-91, and why it’s abad idea for Portland. It’s already hard enoughto deal with the City; consolidating the politicalpower of the City in one individual will onlymake things much worse.


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incarcerate violent offenders.They estimated that in 2005, forevery dollar the state invested inincarceration for violent offend-ers the return in tax payer andvictimization benefits was $4.35.They also estimated that it wasnot cost-effective to incarceratedrug offenders, with every dollarinvested returning only $0.35.”

Since Oregon’s prison popula-tion is 70 percent inmates whocommitted crimes against peopleand just 10 percent illegal drugmanufacturers and dealers, itwould seem that Oregon’s overallreturn would be much closer tothe $4.35 figure than to the $0.35figure. And yet the Oregon Crimi-nal Justice Commission reports a$1.03 overall return on a dollarinvested. This bears further exam-ination, but we see nothing wrong with a break-even onincarceration.“The Legislature has cut pro-grams for offenders such as alco-hol and drug abuse treatmentand education programs, partic-ularly after the recession forceddeep cuts across state govern-ment in 2003.”

During the period of dramati-cally increased prison populationand dramatically lower spendingper inmate on treatment, wehave seen decreases in recidivismthat surpass those projected forevidence-based cognitive/behav-ioral programs. The averagerecidivism for the 8 years prior toMeasure 11 was 33.5 percentwhile the average recidivism forthe 8 years after Measure 11 was30.8 percent. This represents an 8percent decrease in recidivismdespite dramatically reducedtreatment program spending.“O’Leary estimates 75 percent to80 percent of Oregon inmatesneed alcohol and drug treat-ment. ‘We have to ask ourselves,if 98 percent of these people inprison are eventually going toget out, isn’t it smart to be doingsomething with them whilethey’re in custody to try toincrease the odds they’re notgoing to reoffend and createnew victims?’ O’Leary said.”

This makes it sound like thereis no treatment, no counseling,no education, no work, no oppor-tunity for religious observanceand no activities going on in Ore-gon prisons. This is not the case,according to the Oregon Depart-ment of Corrections:

“Research shows meaningfulwork is known to contribute tothe success of inmates uponrelease. The department’s correc-tional programs contribute toinmates’ preparedness for work.Department programs includeeducation, cognitive change,vocational training, mentalhealth, and alcohol and drugtreatment. These programs giveinmates a solid foundation ofskills and attitudes they need togain employment and succeed inthe workplace. Most Oregoninmates have a job while incar-cerated to further develop practi-cal work habits while providingon-the-job experience.” – FromDOC web site (emphasis added)“Others would go beyondexpanding treatment programs.David Rogers, executive directorof the Partnership for Safety andJustice, an advocacy group, rec-ommends that lawmakersincrease the amount of timeinmates can earn off their sen-tences beyond the existing 20percent cap and extend a modest‘earned time’ benefit to Measure11 inmates, who now aren’t eli-gible for that benefit.”

To characterize “Partnershipfor Safety and Justice” as merely“an advocacy group” leaves farmore unsaid than said. “Partner-ship for Safety and Justice”, for-merly known as Western PrisonProject, is a prisoner advocacygroup, funded by George Soros’Open Society Institute, whoseagenda consists mainly of tryingto find ways to get criminals outof prison.

This organization mergedwith “Crime Survivors For Com-munity Safety”, formerly knownas “Survivors Advocating for anEffective System”, formerlyknown as “Crime Victims ForJustice”, which opposed all ofthe victims’ rights ballot meas-ures in 1999 and supported therepeal of Measure 11 in 2000,which, if it had succeeded,would have resulted in theimmediate release of 800 violentcriminals, with thousands moreto follow. “Crime Victims ForJustice” was funded largely bythe ACLU and defense lawyers.

In the current legislative ses-sion, David Rogers and the“Partnership for Safety and Jus-tice” have advocated the guttingof the core principles of Mea-sure 11 - mandatory-minimumsentences, truth-in-sentencing,and trying the most violent 15,16, and 17-year olds in adultcourt. They have a right toadvocate these views but theyshould not be characterized asmerely “an advocacy group”.And what is the justification for

including the chief opponent ofMeasure 11 in this article whileexcluding Crime Victims Unit-ed, its chief proponent?“Both states experienced a sharpreduction in violent crime. ButNew York, unlike Oregon, alsocut its incarceration rate. Moreeffective policing tactics insti-tuted under then-New YorkCity Mayor Rudy Giuliani arewidely credited with the crimereduction.”

After decades of increasedincarceration that totaled nearly300 percent, New York cut itsincarceration rate by roughly 10percent mostly by eliminatinglong mandatory minimum sen-tences for drug offenders.

By contrast, Oregon has neverhad mandatory minimum sen-tences for drug offenders. In fact,it has some of the most lenientdrug penalties in the country. InOregon the presumptive sentencefor a fourth conviction for sellinga street-level quantity of drugs isprobation, provided that the deal-er has no prior person felonyconvictions. And no one is in anOregon prison solely for possess-ing drugs.“The drop in Oregon’s violentcrime rate during the 1990s can-not be attributed primarily toMeasure 11, Greene said in thereport. The effect of the longersentences would not be felt untilyears later, after inmatesremained in prison beyond theirlikely release date under the oldsentencing system.”

The RAND Corporation Reporton Measure 11 (page 45) says:

“As Figure 5.8 shows, prior topassage of Measure 11, 66% ofM11-eligible cases receivedprison sentences.”

This means that 34 percentreceived probation and their “like-ly release date” preceded the dateof their trial. The claim that “theeffect of longer sentences wouldnot be felt until years later” isnonsense. That’s why the RANDCorporation removed it from itsDecember 2003 draft, after wecalled it to their attention.

Crime Victims United demol-ished Ms. Greene’s arguments inan article on our web page short-ly after her paper was released.Somehow The Oregonian man-aged to dig up Ms. Greene’sreport but failed to unearth ourrefutation.“‘Measure 11 has cost Oregon anenormous amount of money,’Greene said in an interview.‘Here in New York, we’re get-ting equal or better results, andwe’re saving money. If it were

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true that incarceration was thecause in Oregon and betterpolicing was the cause in NewYork, you’d certainly choosebetter policing. You wouldchoose the one that costs less.’”

In 2005, Oregon’s violent crimerate was 287 violent crimes per100,000 residents. New York’s was446 violent crimes per 100,000residents. If New York couldreduce its violent crime rate toOregon’s level, it would prevent30,687 violent crimes every year.Perhaps it is New York that couldlearn from Oregon rather than theother way around.

Ms. Greene knows perfectlywell that New York’s decreasein incarceration came on theheels of a huge increase inincarceration. After New York’sdecrease and Oregon’s increase,their incarceration rates areroughly the same. She alsoknows that virtually every state

increased sentence lengths inthe late 1980’s and early 1990’s.The RAND Corporation reportsaid that, by 1994, every statehad some form of mandatoryminimum sentencing.“William Spelman, a professor atthe LBJ School of Public Affairsat the University of Texas, didsome of the pioneering researchon how states reap diminishingrewards as they build more pris-ons. He says the effectiveness ofan incarceration strategy‘depends mostly on who you’reputting in that prison bed.’”and“If you are putting away drugoffenders or burglars, it’s almostcertainly a waste of taxpayermoney,” Spelman says. “Ifthey’re armed robbers, maybe itdoes make sense.”

Since Measure 11 does not putaway drug offenders or burglarsand does put away armed rob-bers, as well as kidnappers, childmolesters, forcible rapists, drunk

drivers who maim and kill, mur-derers and other violent crimi-nals, it would appear that Dr.Spelman would agree with us -Measure 11 does make sense.

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above, the only conclusion wecan reach is that The Oregonianset out to advocate for theirview and the view of the anti-incarceration lobby. The onlyplausible explanation for theirfailure to seek the views ofCrime Victims United is thatthey made an ideological deci-sion not to. This would be fineif they presented themselves asan advocacy organization butthey don’t – they portray them-selves as an unbiased newssource.

We feel that the errors, omis-sions, and flawed logic in thisarticle are egregious and thatthe standard of journalism itrepresents is abysmal.


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From the Inside Out, a project of Act for Action –Theater for All, offers interactive theater performancesexploring issues of mental health. Interactive plays arewritten from personal experiences and perceptions. Inthe style of the Theater of the Oppressed, short plays

requiring problem solving (written mostly by peoplewith mental health issues, with input from people work-ing in law enforcement) are performed first withoutinterruption or solving any issues presented. Whenrepeated, volunteers from the audience stop scenes,replace characters they can see being in the future andact out potential solutions while the other performersimprovise around them. Discussion follows each inter-vention. We reach people with mental health issues,family, friends, people working in law enforcement,mental health professionals and the general public.Four of our participants have assisted with Crisis Inter-vention Training role-plays through In a Different LightTheater Company. Funding for this project comes fromthe Regional Arts and Culture Council.

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An FBI agent I worked with retired to travel. He and his wife wentto Europe for a few weeks. A couple of months later he showedup wanting to volunteer some investigative time because he wasbored and missed the job.I recently ran across a retired Portland officer at the airport. Hewas working and said he did not need the job, but was not surehe wanted to really retire. In policing we are fortunate to be ableto retire at a fairly early age. I would suggest you need to thinkabout that ahead of time.Successful retirement is not just about “not working.” OK there isa certain satisfaction in knowing if you wake up on the first of themonth, you are going to get paid. But it is critical to have an ideaof how you will spend your time and what retirement is going tomean for you. I suggest you make a plan and think about howyou see yourself in this role on a day to day basis.I took an unpaid leave of absence from PPB to run for Sheriff. Iwas eligible to retire, but not sure I wanted to leave lawenforcement. I found the campaign and elections process mis-erable. During those five months I thought a lot about what Iwould do if I lost the election. Should I go back to the Police

Planningfor retirementHow often do you hear a conversation that goes like, “Ihave 11 months to go before I can retire.” The response is,“Oh man, I have six years.” I can recall when I was in theDetective Division one particular Detective was scratch-ing off the days to his retirement. He had three years togo! His goal in retiring was, “to get the h___ out of here.”

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die from homicide than whites,and Latinos somewhat morelikely. Black men, in particular,are extraordinarily vulnerable:They are 4% of this country’spopulation, but, according to theCenters for Disease Control,they represented 35% of homi-cide victims nationally in 2004.Local numbers mirror thesenational disparities. Accordingto an analysis for The Times bycounty health officials of homi-cide data between 1991 and2002, Latino men ages 20 to 24were five times more likely thanwhite men the same age to die,and black men were 16 timesmore likely.

The Homicide Report recog-nizes the peril of dehumanizingvictims by reducing their livesand deaths to a few scant facts— particularly racial designa-tions which provide only theroughest markers of ancestryand history. But given the mag-nitude of difference in homiciderisk along racial and ethnic lines— and the extremity of suffer-ing which homicide inflicts on

subsets of the population — weopt here to present informationwhich lays bare racial and eth-nic contours of the problem soconspicuous in the coroner’sdata. The goal is to promoteunderstanding, and honor abasic journalistic principle: Tellthe truth about who suffers . . .

Manhattan Institute fellowHeather Mac Donald has point-ed out the same type of starkdisparities in writing aboutcrime in New York City, butyou can choose any city you likeand find a similarly alarming setof figures. In the time Al Sharp-ton, Jesse Jackson, and all thelesser voices in the Choir of thePerpetually Outraged have spentbellowing about the rantings ofan aging radio gasbag, howmany young black men havebeen busying themselves killingeach other?

Only when the true magni-tude of this problem is acknowl-edged can its solutions be iden-tified and implemented. It willcome too late for ChannonChristian and Christopher New-som, of course, but in at lastdaring to report the grim butpersistent truth in these statis-tics, perhaps the Los AngelesTimes has opened a doorthrough which the remedy toinner-city crime is found.

Bureau or do something else? I fortunatelywon and did not have to face that decision foreight years.This made me think a lot about what I reallywanted to do after I retire. I had always had aninterest in wood working, especially furnituremaking. Initially, I read magazines and booksabout wood working and bought a few tools. Itprovided me a great diversion from worryingabout the Sheriff’s Office and County politics.One of the things I found I enjoyed was spend-ing time alone.As I worked in the shop I continued to read andfigure out how to do things. I had read a lot ofwood working articles, In Fine WoodworkingMagazine by a guy named Gary Rogowski. I alsoregularly used a shop reference guide on joineryhe has written. Fortunately, he runs a schoolhere in Southeast Portland, The NorthwestWoodworking Studio. I wasn’t sure how to jumpin so I signed up for a class on basic table sawuse. Even though I thought I pretty well under-stood how to use the saw, it turned out Ilearned a lot.By the time I retired I knew I really enjoyedwood working. I upgraded my tools and expand-ed my shop. I had already started to build furni-ture for our cabin and I kept taking classes fromRogowski. I was satisfied in one way with mywork but knew I could be better.I applied for his two year Mastery program infurniture building and was accepted. This tookme in a lot of areas I needed but couldn’t goalone. I am now becoming much more comfort-able with the use of hand tools and the details

of furniture making. I am thoroughly enjoyingthe challenge.Retirement is a significant life change. Manysay they are so busy they can not imaginehow they ever had time to work. Some are notso successful.Police work is often hard on people and hard onrelationships. Some find that their lives are verywrapped up in the job and have a very difficulttime readjusting. It is important to plan.I suggest three things. Think about what youwant to do, beyond just not working. This is keyto looking beyond the job. Think about whatinterests you and how you can plan ahead. Lookfor classes to take. If you want to golf reallywell, don’t wait until you retire to get into betterphysical shape. If travel is your plan think aboutmore than the first trip.Second spend some time looking introspectivelyat yourself and determine what kind of thingsmake your personality. For me spending longhours in the shop alone is wonderful. I havealways have been an introvert at heart. But forothers the thought of spending hours alonewould be torture. One of my former partners isso gregarious he can not comprehend spendingdays without interacting with other people.Lastly, and maybe most importantly start earlyon the kind of thing you would see yourselfdoing and do it. I really wish I had signed up forwood working classes a long time ago. I wouldhave been further ahead and have accom-plished a lot more. Some of the people in myMastery program are still working and buildingbeautiful furniture.


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