Portland Police

The report gives some insight into how Portland police have, and haven’t, changed after the protests of 2020.

Bowser the tortoise went missing on Tuesday only to be found two days later and more than a mile away from home.

“We didn’t take this lightly,” said Denise C., whose last name OPB is withholding because she is related to a Portland police officer.

A judge has blocked a ballot measure introduced by Portland’s police union from going to a vote in the November general election.

The Portland Police Bureau said its officers have arrested 30 people in connection to protests on the Portland State University campus, with more arrests potentially coming.

The suspect, 22-year-old Edel Cruz-Aragon, was booked into the Multnomah County Jail on Tuesday. He is charged with murder in the second degree and unlawful use of a weapon.

The shooting happened after there “was an encounter between the officers and an adult male.”

Nearly three years after Portlanders overwhelmingly voted to establish a new system to address police officer misconduct, the details of the new oversight body are coming into focus.

The Portland Police Bureau is reinstating its traffic division, two years after an internal reorganization left the department with just one employee.

A July 2022 Portland Police canine attack is at least the second time in two years a Portland police dog has escaped its handler’s home and attacked a person or animal. The two attacks come as the use of police dogs nationwide is coming under closer scrutiny and a growing number of unintentional bites call into question how much control officers have over their dogs.