Whats the one thing youd change about Portlands police culture?
On the whole, the experience I’ve had with the culture of the Portland Police Bureau is a good one. The Stephanos case was a key point to me. You had lieutenants and sergeants and officers who failed to do their duty on a criminal act by two officers. But it was almost identical to a case in San Francisco called the Fajita incident, and what happened in the two cities was totally different. Once it got to Internal Affairs here, boom-it was just weeks before they were criminally charged. And in San Francisco there was a cover-up. That showed me that this was not the type of culture that I saw in L.A. Can you name just one thing you would change? One little thing? The things I would change include that it doesn’t have an effective early-warning intervention system [when an officer has multiple Internal Affairs complaints in a short time], and it hasn’t since I got here. That’s something we’re working on but progress has been slow. I’d like to see more movement with respect to deadly-forc
