October 12, 2016
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Rev. Dr. LeRoy Haynes Jr. (from left) of the Albina Ministerial Alliance and a long time leader for the
group’s Coalition for Justice and Police Reform, joins Portland Police Bureau Captain Kevin Modica
and U.S. Attorney for Oregon Billy J. Williams at a national conference on community policing at the
Justice Department in Washington, D.C.
Shared
Goals
A bridge to community-
focused policing
Two members of Portland’s black community,
one representing activists pushing for police reforms
and tackling racial issues within the Portland Police
Bureau, and the other a longtime member of law en-
forcement, were guests of the U.S. Attorney for Ore-
gon at a national conference on community policing.
Portland Police Captain Kevin Modica and
Rev. Dr. LeRoy Haynes Jr. of the Albina Min-
isterial Alliance were accompanied by Billy J.
Williams, Oregon’s top federal prosecutor, at last
week’s inaugural Distinguished Service in Com-
munity Policing Awards Ceremony at the Justice
Department’s headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Williams praised Haynes, who serves on the
AMA’s Coalition for Justice and Police Reform, and
Modica, for the work they do to improve the rela-
tionship between community members and police
throughout the Portland area.
“Community policing is founded in the commit-
ment of both law enforcement and citizens working
together to build trust and safer neighborhoods,”
Williams said. “I admire Captain Modica and Rev.
Dr. Haynes’s leadership in building bridges between
our law enforcement agencies and the communities
they serve.”
Williams said true community-oriented policing
is not a goal that can be achieved overnight, but
said he was confident that with the example set by
Haynes and Modica, “Our work will be a success.”
Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch, the Obama
administration’s top justice department official, and
Deputy Attorney General Sally Q. Yates delivered
remarks at the event, along with Ronald Davis, di-
rector of the Department of Justice Office of Com-
munity Oriented Policing Services.
The awards ceremony was held in conjunction
with National Community Policing Week.
Natural Foods Plans Approved
Project will
be low scale
development
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ENTERTAINMENT
M iChael l eighton
t he P ortland o bserver
The King Neighborhood has
learned that the Natural Grocers
project coming to Northeast Al-
berta Street and Martin Luther
King Jr. Boulevard will be a sin-
by
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C ALENDAR
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gle-story retail strip mall project,
bucking the trend of higher densi-
ty projects with multiple stories in
other parts of their neighborhood
and the inner city.
The Bureau of Development
Services last month approved
building permits by the Portland
Development Commission to con-
struct a one-story, 16,550 square
foot building to accommodate
Natural Grocers and an 8,400
square foot single story-space for
three to five small retail tenants.
The plans also call for 90 surface
parking stalls and a 336 square
foot trash enclosure.
There are no plans for build-
ing affordable housing on the one
block parcel, something activists
in the African American com-
munity sought when the plans to
build a Trader Joe’s grocery store
on the site collapsed two years ago
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