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Policing with minority
perspectives in mind
Keizer’s police chief
on combating white
privilege and the way
police departments can
change for the better
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By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
Thirty years ago, Keizer Police
Chief John Teague had his worldview
reset when an acquaintance told him
he saw a “black man” in the mirror
every morning.
“I found it remarkable that his
race was that prevalent to him,” said
Teague, who is white. In the aftermath
of that conversation, he started paying
closer attention to the ways in which
race is used to hinder the progress of
minorities.
“A while back, Wells Fargo was
taken to task for charging people of
color higher rates for their mortgages
than white folks. Just imagine if you're
a respectable, hardworking, successful,
really good, admirable man and, for
all that effort, you’re getting dinged
on your mortgage payment because
you’re black.”
In a 2015 study published by the
National Institute of Health, more
than 93 percent of roughly 300
black, male participants reported
feeling stress. Almost two-thirds
attributed additional stress to money
and fi nances, 43 percent replied with
racism as a specifi c cause.
“If you're a black person and you
are told all the time that cops stop you
because of race and you see other black
men being stopped, all those things
eat at you, you question all of them,”
Teague said. “I don't know about you
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but, when I'm in those situations, I feel
it in my gut.”
Teague said he was once falsely
accused of something in the town
where he lives and not knowing what
others thought of him began to color
his interactions with other people in
the city. Aside from making Teague
aware of himself in new ways, he also
had to break down barriers others
might have erected in the wake of the
accusation. He found some guidance
in a book titled Whistling Vivaldi and
Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us
by Claude Steele.
“The author is a rather imposing
black man and he writes about
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dissolving at
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PAGE A2
TOP: Keizer Police
Chief John Teague
(right) welcomes
two new offi cers
to the Keizer Police
Department.
RIGHT: Protesters
took to Keizer
streets last week.
KEIZERTIMES/
Eric A. Howald
Please see POLICE, Page A7
Two years in,
what have
city fees
accomplished?
Council
hosting fi rst
hearing
on charter
changes
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
The Keizer City Council
will hold the fi rst of two
public hearings on changes to
the Keizer City Charter at its
meeting Monday, June 15.
The second public hearing
will be held on July 6. Both
meetings are held at the Keizer
Civic Center beginning at 7
p.m.
The council will be
discussing changes to the
charter, the city’s founding
document, recommended by
a task force that spent the past
six months scrutinizing every
word and comma. The council
convened the task force with
an eye toward removing a
section that marginalizes
LGBTQ+ residents.
The removal of the
offending section, Section
44, is the major change
recommended by the task
force, but its members also
found other ways to make
the document more inclusive,
such as using less gendered
language throughout the
document.
“We were careful to make
sure that we were changing
the language to gender neutral
language. Our task force
picked apart every little word
and did it with the intention
of making this a long-term
document. Our city and
Please see CHARTER, Page A7
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KEIZERTIMES/Eric A. Howald
Nate Brown retires after 17 years
that our actions today–even incremental
By ERIC A. HOWALD
ones–affect us in getting where we want to
Of the Keizertimes
A couple of years ago, Keizer Communi- be,” Brown said. “We are a direct descendant
ty Development Director Nate Brown used of what the Romans did.”
The past few years have been busy ones
a multimedia presentation to illustrate how
making a seemingly minor change to the for the Keizer Planning Department and
city sign code – permitting more frequent Brown was at the forefront of several proj-
changes to electronic signs – would impact ects that will inform most decisions about
how Keizer will
River
Road
grow. In that
North.
regard, he’s re-
Even with “ Those people really kept my
visual
aids
engine running for all those years. tiring from the
role on a high
showing
the
I have no regrets and a lot of good note.
change of mes-
Brown’s last
sages, and how
experiences.”
— Nate Brown
day as a city em-
they might dis-
ployee was Fri-
tract drivers and
contribute to visual clutter, it was hard to day, May 29, but he’s already got a new gig
envision the impact. But the lesson Brown lined up in Washington state to keep him
was trying to impart was drawn, quite liter- busy for the next year. Eventually, he wants
to get back to international travel and soak
ally, from history and a trip to Rome.
“When you look at what the Romans up more of the history that led all of us to
built ... our perspective has to be broader. the present day.
Brown began his tenure with Keizer in
We are in the prenatal stages of creating that
kind of legacy and we have to understand
Please see BROWN, Page A5
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POLICE SERVICES
“The fee lets us do two
things,” wrote Teague. “It
provides resources to night
shift patrols and for traffi c
enforcement, both necessary
whether we have the fee or
not, but not at the expense
of preventing crime. “It
also supplies … stratifi ed
responsibility, crime analysis
and
dedicated
policing
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Of the Keizertimes
In late 2017, the Keizer
City Council enacted two
$4 fees supporting police and
park services.
After two full years of fee
collection, the fees have paid
for $1.3 million in parks
improvements and given the
Keizer Police Department the
leeway to focus on underlying
problems rather than running
from fi re to fi re.
Keizer Police Chief John
Teague and Bill Lawyer and
Robert Johnson, of Keizer
Public
Works,
prepared
reports for the budget season
that didn’t get as much
airing as anticipated during
budget talks. The COVID-19
pandemic prompted a different
set of discussions and took the
focus off the fees. At one point
earlier in the year, there were
talks of escalating the police
fee and one city councilor
fl oated the idea of reducing
the parks fee to accommodate
the increase for police services.
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