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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
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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
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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.