October 28, 2015
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A Saturday breakfast at Jefferson High School with students and their adult mentors of color from
across Portland draws over 100 police officers to support them, including Police Chief Larry O’Dea
(left) and North Precinct Commander Chris Uehara.
Bridging the Gap
Youth and police
meet up for
unity breakfast
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A renewed partnership be-
tween African-American stu-
dents and Portland Police is giv-
ing a large contingent of youth
and officers an opportunity to
by
over six years ago. The program
quickly expanded to several
schools, and this breakfast al-
lowed young males from across
the city to unite in one place.
The gathering gave students a
personal connection to law en-
forcement during an era when
tensions between police and
young people of color have ris-
en across the country, especially
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Mayor Nixes Re-Election Bid
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build on something positive and
learn more about each other.
Over 100 police officers and
over 100 students and their adult
mentors of color from across the
city came together on Saturday to
break bread and hold discussions
over breakfast at Jefferson High
School in north Portland.
The organization that brought
them together, the Boys to Men
program of Portland, started off
as a mentorship program just
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Mayor Charlie Hales made
a surprise announcement Mon-
day that he was withdrawing his
plans to run for a second term in
office.
Hales had indicated last March
that we would be a candidate for
re-election, but now says the at-
tention he must give to critical
issues the city is facing, problems
such as homelessness, the lack of
affordable housing, and gang vi-
olence, doesn’t give him the time
needed to conduct a successful
campaign.
Fundraising was another po-
tential struggle for Hales who Charlie Hales
had only raised around $140,000
for his campaign, which is about
$50,000 short of what he had
raised around this time on his last
campaign four years ago, political
observers said.
Hales is the third consecutive
Portland mayor to decide not to
seek a second term. Mayor Sam
Adams, who was marred by a sex
scandal at the start to his first term,
announced in 2011 that would not
seek a bid for re-election, and
Mayor Tom Potter before him an-
nounced in September 2007 that
he too would not run a second
time.