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August 3, 2016 The Skanner Page 3 News cont’d from pg 1 peared in The Skanner’s print edition and on its website for more than 20 years.This exhibit draws on Oregon Historical So- ciety Research Library’s “ vide a document of Port- land and its Black com- munity during a critical 45-year period of growth and change. The entire collection is available to The collection contains 17 cubic feet of photographic prints from The Skanner’s 40-year history, including dramatic images of commu- nity events, political cam- paigns, sports, culture -- and thousands of notable person- alities the public for research at the OHS Research Li- brary, accessible online at http://www.ohs.org/ research-and-library/in- dex.cfm. Keefe was named Cre- ative Laureate of Portland in 2012. Her work has been pub- lished in a vari- ety of public and private settings, including col- laborations with the Equity Atlas of the Coalition for a Livable Fu- ture, Portland State Univer- sity’s School of Social Work, the Portland Art Mu- seum, The Ore- gon Community Foundation, and Caldera. A mother with her children at Allen A complete Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal inding aid to Church the collection is available at graphic prints from The h t t p : //a rc h i v e s w e s t . Skanner’s 40-year histo- o r b i s c a s c a d e . o r g / ry, including dramatic ark:/80444/xv36972. images of community The Skanner Photo- events, political cam- graphs Collection was paigns, sports, culture -- catalogued for OHS with and thousands of notable the assistance of the personalities. Gladys Krieble Delmas The exhibit will pro- Foundation. PHOTO BY JULIE KEEFE Skanner Photographs Collection, which owners Bernie Foster and Bobbie Dore Foster donated to OHS in 2013. The collection contains 17 cubic feet of photo- Camping Portland Youth Philharmonic Portland Youth Philharmonic, America’s irst youth orchestra, will celebrate its 93rd season with four upcoming concerts at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. The opening Fall Concert on Nov. 12 will feature the winner of PYP’s 2016 Soloist Competition, include a piece by Richard Wagner, and present a world premiere by Tomas Svoboda. Individual tickets tickets go on sale Monday. You can reserve seats now by visiting www.portlandyouthphil.org to download a ticket order form or by calling the PYP oice. Police cont’d from pg 1 cates say the report is misleading and lacking analysis necessary for reform. “I think it is inexcusable for a government agency that’s tasked with investigating complaints of police misconduct to be proud of … the signiicant numbers they don’t even bother to investigate,” said JoAnn Hardesty, president of the Portland Chapter of the NAACP. Dismissed Complaints Dan Handelman of Portland Copwatch issued an analysis and response to the IPR report. The organization says there is faulty analysis behind the IPR report conclusions. For example, the IPR report states there were 11 cases with sustained allegations out of 62 IPR and administrative inves- tigations. From these numbers, the report states that 18 percent of community complaints had merit. However, in the Copwatch re- port, this number is challenged, saying that number should be based on the total number of com- plaints received, not the number that was investigated. “That rate would be 2.8 percent of all cases (11 of 388), not 18 per- cent (11 of 62) as IPR indicates,” wrote Portland Copwatch in the response. “This means you’re “ “IPR refers such complaints to the jurisdictions where the oicers work. They count in our data as complaints that are dismissed. It would not be appropriate to con- sider them … when calculating the percentage of sustained alle- Hardesty says there is a larger story be- hind the complaints that do not get in- vestigated six times less likely to have your concerns validated than what IPR implies.” City Auditor Mary Hull Cabal- lero told The Skanner News that it would be inaccurate to include all complaints. Some had been dismissed for not having enough evidence or they were less se- rious allegations that were re- ferred to supervisors, or were complaints that had jurisdic- tion errors, Hull Caballero said. “Mr. Handelman’s methodology includes complaints against oi- cers who do not work for the city of Portland,” Hull Caballero said. gations, because they never un- derwent that type of judgment.” Hardesty says there is a larger story behind the complaints that do not get investigated. In some cases complainants cannot name the oicers involved, because the oicer would not give his or her business card or could not be oth- erwise identiied. Complaints from the homeless are more likely to be dismissed because of issues locating people to follow up, according to Hard- esty. Read the full story at TheSkanner.com cont’d from pg 1 the city’s homeless response remain unchanged: • Sanitation: The city will continue to provide and service dumpsters and portable toilets at several locations in the city, including areas with large concentrations of homeless campers. “ PHOTO COURTESY OF PORTLAND YOUTH PHILHARMONIC Photos • The city will increase funding for “high-intensity street engagement” — programs to help people living on the street transition to permanent homes. •The city attempted six months ago to streamline points of contact for The city attempted six months ago to stream- line points of contact for homeless people seeking services, or for people reporting liva- bility issues, and will continue that project • Storage: Six months ago the city pro- vided day storage lockers at two loca- tions for unhoused people to have a place to safely store their belongings. The city will expand the number of locked storage containers it ofers to people who otherwise do not have a place to store their things. homeless people seeking services, or for people reporting livability is- sues, and will continue that project. Those reporting livability issues can use an online form (https://www. portlandoregon.gov/index.cfm?log- in=1&show_message=1&c=69333&C- FID=67942208&CFTOKEN=9fd27dba 3043a1f9-356C2C9C- E223-4DDC-2062C7D- D7E14601B), a cell phone application or send an email (report- pdx@portlandoregon. gov) or via phone call (503-823-4000). The city’s most recent homeless count, con- ducted in 2015, estimat- ed there are about 3,800 people on the streets, in shelter and in temporary housing and about 12,000 people “doubled up” (for example, sleeping in Mayor Charlie Hales announced this week that the city would roll common areas of friends’ back its camping guidelines, but continue other aspects of a six-point or relatives’ homes) or pilot program designed to address homelessness. living in hotels. The 2015 count found that while the over- the number of African Americans liv- all number of homeless people had not ing on the streets in the Portland area changed much from the year before, had increased by 48 percent.