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Training: Scenarios involve making quick decisions
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Just as subtle are the sensory
clues coming from a subject the
deputy approaches. Appearances —
how they’re dressed and how they
smell; movements — like widen-
ing their stance; and verbal clues —
such as saying, “I’m not going back
to jail!”; are just some possible indi-
cators of aggressive intention.
“These scenarios are built where
if they do the right thing, it works
out,” Hoover said.
External factors such as avail-
ability of backup and who has the
more powerful weapon sometimes
determine whether a deputy pursues
a subject in the first place. Deputies,
who often patrol rural roads, may
not, for instance, attempt to arrest
a subject who is much larger in size
if he or she is miles away from the
nearest backup.
“You’d be surprised how quickly
it comes to you,” Hoover said.
Deputy Sheriff Thomas Phillips
said his training in 10 years with
the Sheriff’s Office has helped him
heighten his sensory awareness and
utilize adrenaline.
“I wish people had the ability to
come see this training to see how
it is,” he said. “I don’t think peo-
ple understand all the dynamics
involved.”
Parole and probation officers,
who may not experience as many
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Sgt. Michael Smith participates in training exercises at the Clatsop
County Fairgrounds on Wednesday.
Quick decisions
crisis situations as deputies on the
street, have particularly benefited
from the training, Parole and Proba-
tion Officer Heather Senquiz said.
“This is good training for when I
go out on my home visits or end up
being called to a scene to talk to a
subject I might know,” Senquiz said.
Some scenarios involve making
quick decisions about whether to
shoot a subject who may or may not
be armed. One situation this week
combined elements of an actual
standoff in Cannon Beach in Febru-
ary with another scene in Gearhart.
Body:
Tattoos
may help
ID remains
Deputies knew only that a man’s
wife had called to report a possible
suicidal subject who may be in pos-
session of two firearms. As is often
the case in real life, deputies did not
have access to the subject’s criminal
and mental health history, Hoover
said. After finding the subject at a
bus stop, the deputy must try to con-
vince him to peacefully enter the
police car and go to the hospital.
But after a brief conversation,
the hooded subject walks out of
the bus stop, begins to run toward
the deputy and uses both hands
to point a dark object toward the
officer.
Deputies fired at the subject
in each version of the scenario. It
was not until after the exercise that
Hoover revealed the object in the
subject’s hand was a cellphone.
With national scrutiny on law
enforcement’s use of deadly force,
deputies in the field should focus on
proper techniques based on infor-
mation available to them at the
time, Hoover said. If other deputies
agree those actions may have saved
lives, the Sheriff’s Office will sup-
port them.
“Of course we have to deal with
the fallout of it, but you were com-
pletely justified in shooting him,”
Hoover told one deputy after the
scenario near the bus stop. “It’s bet-
ter to be tried by 12 than carried by
six.”
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The investigators are also research-
ing the history of tides and currents in
the area. Thanks to advances in tech-
nology, it is sometimes possible to
determine where a body might have
originated, based on tidal and climate
data, Matlock said.
Identifying remains can take any-
where from hours to a year or more,
depending on the condition of the
remains and other factors. However,
Walters and Matlock each described
features of the remains that could help
investigators make a fairly fast and deci-
sive identification.
“We have some partial tattoos on the
body that we are trying to identify, to see
if anybody had someone of this descrip-
tion that was missing,” Matlock said. A
pathologist will perform a post-mortem
examination this weekend, he added.
The examination could potentially pro-
vide new insights into the case. In the
near future, deputies will also enter
images of her dental records and other
distinctive features into national law
enforcement databases.
Deductions: Proposal would not alter federal interest deduction
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The upper income limit
for single filers to itemize the
deduction would be $100,000,
and for joint filers, $200,000.
For those making less, any
amount of annual interest
above $15,000 — an amount
that as time passes would be
adjusted for inflation — could
not be deducted from taxable
income.
Pros and cons
Proponents of the bill,
including many of the state’s
affordable housing advocates,
say that the tax break has had
little effect on the rate of home
ownership, that it largely ben-
efits higher earners, and that
some of the tax revenue sac-
rificed through the deduc-
tion could be instead used
to address the state’s low-in-
come housing needs.
Critics of the proposal say
that it would make buying
certain homes less affordable
for certain people by increas-
ing the amount of taxable
income they will have to pay.
Loans up to $1 million for
joint filers, and $500,000 for
single taxpayers are eligible
for the deduction.
In 2013, about half a mil-
lion tax returns filed in Ore-
gon used the deduction, but of
those, less than half — about
237,000 — recorded incomes
of more than $84,300 per
year, according to the Legis-
lative Revenue Office.
Recent state revenue pro-
jections expect the state to
forgo about $880 million in
revenue due to the deduction
in the 2017-19 budget cycle,
which begins in July.
Additional revenue
It’s not clear exactly how
much the state would realize
in additional revenue if the
changes proposed by the bill
are made.
But Christine Broniak, an
economist with the state’s
Legislative Revenue Office,
told lawmakers Thursday
that based on census data she
estimated that revenue from
taxes on undeductible mort-
gage interest would increase
5 percent if homeowners were
precluded from receiving the
A lobbyist for the Ore-
gon Association of Realtors,
Shaun Jillions, told lawmak-
ers that he was concerned that
the bill did not call for the
three-fifths majority needed
in legislation that would raise
revenue.
“It’s very clear the intent
of this legislation is to raise
revenue,” Jillions said.
But Mary King, professor
emerita of economics at Port-
land State University, said that
the deduction has not substan-
tially altered the rate of home-
ownership in the state.
King and 23 other econ-
omists and housing policy
experts wrote a letter support-
ing the measure to the House
Committee on Human Ser-
vices and Housing.
“Evidence shows that it
does not affect homeown-
ership rates,” King said of
the deduction. And while the
state has “one of the largest
mortgage interest deductions
in the country,” King said,
homeownership rates here are
lower than average.
mortgage interest deduction
on non-principal residences.
She did not specify an exact
dollar amount.
She said the office could
follow up with estimated rev-
enue changes given other stip-
ulations in the bill such as the
income limits.
In the data available to
her, Broniak said, there was
no distinction between sec-
ond homes that are vaca-
tion homes and those that
are rentals, although in cer-
tain circumstances interest on
a mortgage on a rental home
could be considered a busi-
ness expense.
Housing shortage
Jon Chandler, CEO of
the Oregon Homebuilders
Association, acknowledged
the state’s housing short-
age, but argued the legisla-
tion would not address the
problem.
“We are underbuilding in
this state, relative to demand,
by about a 25 percent mar-
gin,” Chandler said.
Jillions, the lobbyist for
the Realtors, argued that part
of the reason homeownership
rates are lower in Oregon is
that median home prices are
higher here than in states,
such as West Virginia, where
there is both an income tax
and a relatively low mortgage
interest deduction.
The median home price
in Oregon is about $317,000,
and just over $400,000 in
Portland, according to the
online real estate company
Zillow.
Rural divide
Juan Carlos Ordonez,
communications director for
the Oregon Center for Pub-
lic Policy, a left-leaning think
tank, charged that the mort-
gage interest deduction was
inequitable, leaving fewer
state resources for low-in-
come people.
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“The mortgage interest
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not alter the federal mortgage
interest deduction.
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of revenue brought in that can
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