June 29, 2016
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O PINION
Mike Marshman was named Portland’s new police chief Monday. A former captain in the Police
Bureau, he most recently oversaw the implementation of reforms combating police use of excessive
force against people with mental illness. (KPTV photo)
Police Command Shake Up
M ETRO
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New chief
takes oath and
makes changes
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t he P ortland o bserver
Portland Police Chief Larry
O’Dea will be replaced by Captain
Mike Marshman, Mayor Charlie
Hales announced Monday.
The move came one day after
O’Dea indicated he would retire
after 30 years with the Police Bu-
reau. The decision came as O’Dea
faces an investigation into an acci-
dental shooting of a friend during
a hunting trip in Harney County of
eastern Oregon last April.
“We are still waiting for the
outcomes of investigations before
passing judgment,” Hales said at
a City Hall press conference. “But
we have urgent needs — police
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reform, stafing shortages — that
must be addressed by leadership.
Now is the time for the bureau to
make a fresh start.”
Portland Police Association
President Daryl Turner, represent-
ing the bureau’s rank-and-ile ofi-
cers, welcomed the departure and
embraced Marshman as the new
chief.
“For the past few weeks, we
have watched as the Bureau suf-
fered under Larry O’Dea’s lack
of leadership and ownership of
his actions,” Turner said. “We
needed a police chief to lead us
with strength and integrity. Larry
O’Dea was not that person.”
Marshman took the oath of of-
ice Monday and in one of his irst
actions named three new assistant
chiefs and reassigned more than a
dozen other oficers to new posi-
tions within the Bureau.
Three former assistant chiefs
under investigation for not call-
ing for an internal inquiry when
O’Dea revealed the shooting to
them were demoted, and former
Acting Chief Donna Henderson,
also under investigation for keep-
ing quiet, will retire.
Marshman, a 25-year Port-
land police veteran most recently
served as the Bureau’s interme-
diary to the U.S. Department of
Justice, speciically overseeing
the implementation of reforms
combating police using excessive
force against people with mental
illnesses, per a mandated settle-
ment of a 2012 federal lawsuit.
“The bureau is grappling with
stafing shortages. It must con-
tinue to move forward on reform.
Mike Marshman is known as a de-
liberate and thoughtful leader, and
is an expert on the reform agree-
ment. He is the right leader to
stabilize the bureau and continue
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ENTERTAINMENT
C LASSIFIEDS
C ALENDAR
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F OOD
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Report Finds Racial Bias
Oregon seventh for locking up black residents
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A new report on racial dis-
parities in state prisons provides
evidence of a disproportionate-
ly high rate of incarceration of
black Oregonians, the second
report this year to demonstrate
racial bias in the local justice
system.
“The Color of Justice: Racial
and Ethnic Disparities in State
Prisons” from the Sentencing
Project in Washington, D.C.
shows Oregon has the seventh
highest percentage rate in the
United States of incarceration of
black people in state prisons.
1 in 21 African-American men
is incarcerated in a state prison
in Oregon, compared to an aver-
age across all states of 1 in 26.
Vermont had the highest rate of
black imprisonment at 1 in 14;
while Hawaii was the lowest at
1 in 61.
Oregon stands out in the Col-
or of Justice report for also im-
prisoning everyone more than
the national average; 46 percent
higher for blacks; 33 percent
higher for whites and 5 percent
higher for Hispanics.
Bobbin Singh, executive di-
rector of the Oregon Justice Re-
source Center, said the research
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