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awareness,” he said
According to Chief, a YMCA
in another part of the county
we don’t utilize it as a tool to found an employee featured in
draw interest in our paper and the sex offender portion of the
prompt people to buy,” Chief paper along with 24 o f their
said, of his publication which members. In another location,
a convenient store was robbed
only costs a buck.
by A manda G rear
at
knife point and the clerk was
He said the criminal content
T he P ortland O bserver
able
to identify the perpetrator
is motivated in part by his own
Have you been "Busted”?
after
seeing him in Busted for
If so, people m ight have "personal desire to look inside
another
crime.
my
local
paper
and
see
who
had
seen your mug in "B usted," a
But not everyone is a fan of
new tabloid new spaper that been in trouble.”
C h ie f has received som e the publication.
has been blasting photos of
P ublic D e fe n d e r N eal
arrestees in the Portland area flack in year since his publica
a lo n g w ith a lis t o f th e ir tion has been out - distributed Weingart of M ultnom ah D e
in several markets nationwide, fenders Inc. said he has “no
charges.
Publisher Ryan Chief of cen mainly from “registered sex of ticed inaccuracies.” Having
tral Florida uses fun, rich col fenders,” he said, but is quick had some of his clients featured
ors, catchy stories and phrases, to point to the outpouring of in this paper, he said some of
along with cartoon-like illustra support he said he receives from the listed charges were com
pletely different from the actual
tions to catch the eye of people community leaders.
photo by J ake T homas / T he P ortland O bserv er
“All I'm doing is conveying charges, which he said could “Busted" magazine gives its readers a cheap kick. But
sh o p p in g in c o n v e n ie n c e
public information. I’m in the become a potentially massive what does the magazine mean for people who have
stores like Plaid Pantry.
“It would be foolish to say b usiness o f creating public issue.
actually been busted?
Busted is no Bust
Tabloid prints
arrest photos
“The information he's pub
lishing is widely public infor
mation. He’s not violating any
criminal or civil laws, provided
it’s accurate," said Alexander
Hamalian of Rose City Defense
Consortium.“There’s no differ
ence than w hat they do on
shows like COPS '’
But H am alian q u e stio n s
whether the publication actu
ally benefits the citizenry at
large. He said it is the job of
citizens who value civil rights
to make sure people understand
publishers like this have a fi
nancial interest, not a civil in
terest.
But C hief asserts that his
publication provides an extra
level of accountability, particu
larly for first time offenders.
“Maybe, just maybe there’s
a slim chance they w on't com
mit that crime again,” he said.
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