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October 18. 2006
Steps to End Racial Profiling Wanted
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A follow -up to a series o f co m
munity talks on racial profiling fo
cuses on recom m endations to end
the disparities found in traffic stops
involving people o f color.
A series o f listening sessions
was launched last spring shortly
after the Portland Police Bureau
released data on traffic stops that
found black and Latino drivers were
more likely to be stopped than white
drivers.
On Thursday, Oct. 19at City Hall
th e N o rth w e s t C o n s titu tio n a l
Rights C enter, the social advocacy
group O regon Action and police
ch ief Rosie Sizer will present a full
report with recom m endations for
elim inating racial profiling, using
inform ation com piled from the lis
tening sessions.
T h e rig h ts c e n te rg o t2 l Portland
groups involved in their recom m en
dations, including the C enter for
Intercultural O rganizing, Sisters o f
the Road, Portland Copw atch, The
Asian Pacific American Network o f
Oregon and the N ative A m erican
Youth A ssociation.
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Portland Police Chief Rosie Sizer acknowledges the racial dispari
ties o f traffic stops during a June 8 community listening session.
A lejandro Queral, the cen ter's has declined offers to meet with the
executive director, hopes the City com m unity groups.
Council will appoint a group to act
O ther recom m endations call for
upon the six recom m endations, com m unity organizations to im ple
w hich call for the police bureau to ment theirow n education programs
develop a plan to elim inate racial on attitudes and behavior appro
profi ling no later than Jan. 2007 and priate during traffic and pedestrian
to collect and analyze data on indi stops, and to assist individuals with
vidual traffic and pedestrian stops. filing com plaints against officers
T h ere’s been som e controversy they believe have treated them in
over recom m endations to collect appropriately, so that a w ritten
traffic-stop data on individual o f record is developed and incidents
ficers. Also, Portland's police union are investigated.
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A M ultnomahCounty Grand Jury
cleared Portland police Tuesday o f
any wrongdoing in the death o f a
mentally ill man w ho died in a patrol
car on his way to the hospital after a
scuffle with officers, downtown.
Jam es C hasse, 42, died Sept. 17
from blunt force traum a to the chest.
A state medical exam
iner declared the death
accidental. The autopsy
found C hasse had 17
broken ribs, a punctured
lung and internal bleed
ing.
His family and some
PhillipChasse
w itnesses said they be
lieve pol ice used ex ces
sive force. Police said
he was com bative and
tried to bite them.
G rand ju ry sessions
are secret under Oregon
law, attended only by
the district attorney and
w itnesses.
Diversity Classes for Lawyers Suspended
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that lawyers must take an hour long
class each year addressing race
and diversity has been suspended
for tw o years by the O regon Su
prem e C ourt to re-evaluate its e f
fectiveness.
The requirem ent has been in e f
fect since 2001, a follow -up to a s u b s ta n tiv e law is s u e s ," th e
1994 report on bias against racial Beaverton attorney said. "We are
and ethnic m inorities in the judicial not questioning the value o f diver
system . M em bers o f the bar voted sity. But the quality o f these classes
this spring to ask the court to do is really very poor."
aw ay with the anti-bias training.
Angel Lopez, a past president o f
Catheri ne Cobum was one o f the the state bar, said that as a Latino
m any attorneys opposed to the and a cri mi nal defense attorney w ho
requirement.
w orks with underrepresented popu
"The classes are about how to lations, he believes in the need for
be nice to each other, not about the anti-bias requirem ent.
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