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chures. fliers and advertisements.
C hief Foxworth is among those
volunteers.
The Bureau has assigned O f
ficer Larry A nderson, a local A fri
can-A m erican, as the recruitment
officer who will focus on recruiting
minorities and women.
“ W e ’re lo o k in g to O ffic e r
Anderson to com e up with the
best and the brightest that the
Lake Oswego
house search
against law
(A P) — A police search that
turned up m arijuana in Portland
T ra il B la z e r g u a rd D am on
S toudam ire’s form er Lake O s
w ego house three years ago was
illegal, a split O regon C ourt of
A ppeals ruled W ednesday.
Because the decision was 5-5, it
upholds a ruling by Clackamas
County Circuit Judge John Lowe,
who said the warrantless search
violated Stoudam ire’s constitu
tional rights and that the seized
drug couldn’t be used as evidence.
Stoudam ire was charged with
Portland police are enhancing
patrol m issions to provide a posi
tive and safe environm ent for ju
veniles this week for Spring Break
and improving neighborhood liv
ability by minimizing juvenile-re
lated crim e.
The police b u reau’s five pre
cincts, along with police divisions
concentrating on schools, drugs
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felony possession o f more than
150 grams of marijuana after Lake
Osw ego police on Feb. 23, 2002,
responded to reports o f a burglar
and vice, traffic and transit are
participating in 17 curfew m is
sions involving alcohol enforce
ment, transit and traffic.
Officers will concentrate on ar
eas where ju veniles congregate
or where there have been on-go-
ing problem s with speed racing,
vandalism and property crim e,
police said. M any o f the officers
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Local Burglary
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A 36-year-old man was ar
rested March 16 on burglary
warrants after police responded
to a “burglary in progress” in the
76(X) block of North Curtis Av
enue.
A neighbor called police after
watching a man walk into the
back yard of a neighboring home
and force entry to a window.
Troy Michael Powell was ar
rested inside the home. D etec
tives continued the investiga
tion and recovered a substantial
amount of suspected stolen prop
erty from his residence, primarily
jewelry, smal I electronics and coin
collections.
Detectives believe the prop
erty was stolen within the past
thirty days from other homes in
ner north and northeast Portland.
Investigators do not believe
Powell stole any items that could
not be carried in a backpack.
ties has stopped. “W hen you look
at the n um ber o f in d iv id u a ls
across the nation both in elective
and appointed office, the num
bers are certainly increasing,” he
said.
The report looked only at states
where minority groups totaled five
percent or more of the population.
Leadership jobs referred specifi
cally to agency com m issioner or
gubernatorial adviser.
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have volunteered to adjust their
shifts in an effort to m inim ize
c o sts.
Several organizations includ
ing P ortland’s Parks and R ecre
ation, Y outh G ang O utreach, Po
lice A ctivities League, and the
Boys and G irls C lubs offer safe
alternatives to kids during Spring
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alarm at S toudam ire’s house.
The front door o f the house was
ajar when police arrived, and neigh
bors said they saw an unfamiliar car
leave the house about 50 minutes
before the alarm went off.
Stoudamire several hours earlier
had gone to the Rose Garden to
play in a game. Officers searched
the house for intruders and said
they found about a pound of mari
juana in an attic storage area.
But Stephen H ouze, S toud
am ire’s lawyer, said police lacked
au thority to search the house
without a w arrant. He claim ed the
alarm gave little cause to think a
crim e had been com m itted be
cause 99 percent o f burglar alarm
reports in Lake O sw ego around
that tim e period had turned out to
be false.
Society at the State University of period. In general, there’s aclim ate
New York at Albany.
less supportive o f proactive efforts
Titled “Democracy Unrealized,” to identify people o f color for vari
the study notes the 2(XX) U.S. Cen ous positions.”
sus showed minorities made up 32
Michael King, an Atlanta resi
percent of the nation’s population, dent and member o f the national
but just 16 percent held key ap conservative black group Project
pointed policy positions in state 21, said the report, out last month,
governments in 2004.
seemed like it was “engineered to
“There’s a number of possible justify an argument.”
reasons at play here,” Saidel said.
King disputed the suggestion
“We are in a post-affirmative action that any advancem ent by m inori
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Portland metro area has to offer,” policeotficer selection process works.
C hief Foxworth said.
Target audiences in this drive in
T he B u re a u ’s w ebsite at clude police officers serving in other
www.portlandpolice.com has been juri sdietions, college graduates, gov
expanded to assist potential candi ernment employees, ex-military and
dates in the testing process. The those in the service or helping pro
website includes qualification infor fessions.
mation; a guide to the written test;
For more information about the
test dates; test-preparation workshop next testing date or other i nformation
information and sign-up; details about about police recruitment, call Officer
the physical ability test; and how the Anderson at 503-823-0473.
Study Finds Segregation in Government Jobs
(AP) - Blacks and Hispanics have
no trouble getting tapped to lead
civil rights commissions, but the
same can' t be said when it comes to
other top-ranking state government
jo b s nationw ide, a new study
shows.
“I don’t know if I would call it
tokenism as I would occupational
segregation,” said report author
Judith Saidel, director of the Center
for Women in Government & Ci vil
* * * N ew L ocation * * *
5 4 1 0 N.E. 3 3 rd
become a police officer or
wondered what it would be
like, now is the opportunity
to do something about it.
Spring Break Impacts Police
(FORMERLYCHUCK HINTON'S)
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wed-Thurs
Fri. & Sat.
The Portland Police Bureau is
taking to the streets of the Portland
metro area not only to protect and
to serve, but to hire 70 police offic
ers.
“W e’re concentrating ourefforts
on diversity and hiring from the
local area,” Police Chief Derrick
Foxworth said. “If you have ever
wanted to become a police officer
or wondered what it would be like,
now is the opportunity to do some
thing about it.”
The theme for the local recruit
ment campaign is: “Forevery Port
land police officer, there is a story.
Join us and write the next chap
ter.”
Twelve volunteer officers from
various backgrounds, ethnicities
and ranks will write their chapters
of what it’s like to be a Portland
police officer and share them with
the public through posters, bro-
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