Portland Police Bureau

We talk with the founders, as well as a student and a police officer who have participated in the program designed to connect students of color with members of law enforcement.

Journalists and legal observers claimed they endured police uses of force multiple times during the 2020 protests despite their rights to be present and document events.

A proposal to tweak Portland's new oversight committee could have led to a robust discussion, but it instead ended with uncertainty for the proposal and lingering frustrations for attendees.

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

Portland Police Chief Bob Day acknowledged that the cameras have limits. He cautioned that they are still “a work in progress” for the bureau.

Communication between Wilma Acosta’s family and the Portland Police Bureau illustrates some of the challenges in missing and murdered Indigenous people cases.

City attorneys argue the courts have misinterpreted new additions to Oregon's use of force laws.

The postdated decision will put more of the oversight board’s future in the hands of Portland’s new, 12-member council.

The bureau’s proposed language is nearly identical to policies in the manuals of police agencies in cities like Gresham, Oregon City, Tigard and Tualatin.

When Wilma Acosta, Pascua Yaqui, went missing, Portland police announced Acosta had “suicidal ideations,” despite repeated denials of that claim from Acosta’s family. Experts say such announcements are harmful.