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Recruiting are also sponsors.
The boot camp is broken down into
four sessions. Upcoming sessions will
be held July 14, Aug. 4 and
Aug. 11.
The first session featured
catering by The Green Lady
and a talk from guest speaker
Stic.man of the group Dead
Prez.
“What we lack is inspira-
tion and motivation,” says
Stic.man. “Every 30 seconds
on TV we see ‘Supersize this.’ Taco
Bell everywhere. CrackDonald’s and
Murderking.”
Following a conscious music warm-
up activity, students were treated to a
vegan breakfast, along with a testimo-
nial from Stic.man.
He shared how his turning point
came when he was 21 and starting to
taste success from his music career.
is a type of arthritis that occurs when
uric acid builds up in the blood and
causes joint inflammation.
“The doctor
offered me a
prescription for
more drugs,”
says Stic.man.
“He said that
would take care
—Stic.man of the symptoms
and ‘If you need
some
more,
come holla at me.’”
At that point he decided to explore
natural healing. Stic.man says he
began exercising regularly and taking
meat out of his diet.
‘Every 30 seconds on TV we see
‘Supersize this.’ Taco Bell everywhere.
CrackDonald’s and Murderking’
Stic.man says he was drinking too
much alcohol, smoking too much
weed, not exercising and eating an
unhealthy diet. When he woke up from
one night of hard partying, he found
his left ankle was swollen.
He was diagnosed with gout, which
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Mugshots
Green Lady catered the camp’s vegan menu.
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While both the mugshot websites and the
mugshot-removal websites reap big bucks,
critics argue that they increase recidivism
and damage the economy by making it
harder for a significant number of people to
find a job.
How many people? One website in Flori-
da reportedly carries some 4 million
mugshots alone — and those are just of peo-
ple who are too poor to pay to get them
taken down again.
For their part, mugshot website operators
argue that they are performing a valuable
public service by shaming miscreants and
deterring others from criminal acts through
fear of the commercial mugshot industry.
However while law enforcement agencies
have posted mugshots online for years, the
profit motive in private sites doing the same
thing has been boosted by a handful of fac-
tors: liberal “sunshine laws” that mean most
states consider mugshots to be public docu-
ments freely available online without any
request process; the down economy, which
has likely increased the number of
mugshots overall; the number of out-of-
work web code writers; and search engine
optimization.
This issue blew up in Kansas last week
when a freshly-minted mugshot website
appeared that offered a $199 take-down
service right on the home page – considered
a rare step, although a Portland website had
already done something similar.
Entrepreneur Matthew Creed had set up a
website not only posting mugshots next to a
direct-pay removal option, but he also
planned to send out snail-mail notices to the
mug owners – and their neighbors — in
envelopes printed with the mugshot and the
words, “We know!”
Creed won even more headlines a few
days after the Kansas City Star reported on
his business; he’d received so many death
threats that he closed the site and moved his
wife and two kids out of the area, news
reports said.
Which is why Diane says she doesn’t
want to reveal her full name – she’s afraid
of harassment from mugshot website sup-
porters.
Oregon and Washington State appear to
lack a movement or any governmental
champion against mugshot websites, but in
the state of Idaho, Ada County Sheriff Gary
Raney has taken one of the toughest stands
in the country – if not the toughest – on
keeping mugshot scrapers off his turf.
The issue is compelling, Raney says,
because mugshot websites increase recidi-
vism and represent a form of digital extor-
tion – and the information they contain is
not truly accurate.
“We want justice to be served but we also
want whatever happened to that person to
make sure that they don’t do it again,”
Raney said.
“It’s not just the punitive part of go to jail,
‘They’re only out to
make a fast buck at
somebody else’s
expense’
-- Sheriff Gary Raney
or pay a fine or serve community service.
It’s what we do to change that behavior.”
The sheriff was adamant that posting
mugshots online is a crime deterrent – but,
he said, the way law enforcement has tradi-
tionally done that involves posting com-
plete information about the case including
whether the arrestee was charged after
arrest, whether the charges were dropped or
withdrawn. Plus, the mugs are taken down
after a period of time.
“All of the community feedback I get is
that posting the mugshots does have very
good value in deterrence and in helping
people and you should keep it up,” Raney
said.
“The flipside of that is the profiteering –
when it’s not credible information, because
we just had one recently where somebody
was arrested for lewd conduct or sexual
abuse of a minor, and that charge was with-
drawn, and we were able to correct that on
the website immediately and get that picture
off,” he said.
Raney says there is no question that
mugshot websites represent a significant
barrier for people trying to get their lives
together.
“A person who loses their job, you just
increased the likelihood of recidivism for
that offender. Or they’re embarrassed in
front of their family – family social support
networks are one of the greatest things to
reduce recidivism, and now you’re decreas-
ing that,” he says.
“They’re only out to make a fast buck at
somebody else’s expense.”
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ness, a homicide, a charge of corrupting a
minor and, for Redmond’s husband, an
early death in the poor house.
Hattie’s Parents Lived in St. Louis
Lenzen discovered that Hattie’s father
Reuben Crawford was born enslaved in
1828, in either Missouri or Virginia. She
believes he was the same Reuben Crawford
who was emancipated in November 1862,
by a banker and grocer from Mississippi,
called William H. Glasgow. Hatties mother,
Vina, was emancipated in October 1862 by
a Stephen F. Summers.
Southern businessmen who wanted to
work in the Northern states had to sign an
oath of loyalty to the U.S. constitution,
Lenzen says, which meant emancipating
any slaves they held.
Like the famous writer and orator, Freder-
ick Douglass, Reuben was trained as a
caulker,a trade that offered steady work and
decent wages. Caulkers sealed the seams of
wooden ships, making them waterproof and
seaworthy. Reuben registered for the Union
draft in 1863, but Lenzen found no record
that he actually served. Lenzen found that
Reuben had been “shifting for himself”
since the age of 13. His struggles may have
influenced Hattie to struggle for her own
rights.
“That really hits you because he was on
his own from 13 years old,” Lenzen says.
“He was most likely sold to become a ship
caulker. So why did Hattie do this? Her
father must have been a big part of the rea-
son.”
In 1914, an Oregonian article called
‘This is an incredible
family. It’s not just
Hattie; it’s everybody’
—genealogist Connie Lenzen
Reuben perhaps the “best known ship
caulker on the coast.” He was 86 then, but
had just retired.
City directories for 1864-68 list Reuben
and Vina as living on Kosciusko and later
Wyoming streets near the St. Louis water-
front. A William Crawford, also a caulker,
possibly Reuben’s brother, also lived there.
The Move to Portland
Hattie was born in St. Louis around 1862,
the oldest of eight children—five daughters
and three sons – born to Reuben and Vina.
Cupid D. Crawford and William Crawford
also were born in Missouri by 1866. But
then the family disappears from St. Louis,
They must have traveled to Marysville,
Calif., because Susan Crawford was born
there in 1871. Then they moved to Hood
River, where Mary Frances Crawford was
born in 1873. Also born in Oregon were:
Elizabeth “Lizzie”; Benjamin; and Blanche.
In the 1870 census the family is listed liv-
ing in Wasco County, but by 1880, the
Crawfords were living in Portland. Lenzen
found that they were active in their church,
Mt. Olivet, and on the social scene. A news
story records that Hattie recited the poem,
“I’m So Happy,” at a benefit organized by
A.M.E. Zion Church.
“These were very social people, who were
very active in their community, socially and
politically,” Lenzen says.
Reuben was a singer who “delighted the
audience with a beautiful song, ‘Free as a
Bird,’” at the Good Samaritans 4th anniver-
sary celebration. He was a member of the
Republican Lincoln Club, and also active in
the Portland Colored Immigration Society,
set up to persuade more African Americans
to come to Oregon.
From the earliest Oregon records, Reuben
Crawford was registered to vote. And he
kept registering and voting, and working
too, until he was 86 years old. His hand-
writing is firm, but printed, which suggests
he probably did not get much education.
But all the Crawford children learned to
read and write.
No wonder Hattie was an activist, Lenzen
says. “He was her motivation, I’m sure,
because he registered early and he regis-
tered often, and here he is registering at 86.
This man was incredible. I’m sure he
walked to register, and he walked to vote,
and he’s walking to work right into his 80s.
“This is an incredible family. It’s not just
Hattie; it’s everybody,” she says.
Visit theskanner.com to read about Hat-
tie’s marriage and the trubulent life of her
brother Cupid.
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