MARCH 28, 2018
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Portland and Seattle Volume XL No. 26
News .............................. 3,8-10 A & E .....................................6-7
Opinion ...................................2 Stephon Clark Killing ......9
Calendars ........................... 4-5 Bids/Classifieds ....................11
CHALLENGING PEOPLE TO SHAPE A BETTER FUTURE NOW
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MARCH FOR OUR LIVES
A new ad campaign, compelled by a 2006 court
ruling, requires tobacco companies to disclose
information about the health effects of tobacco.
By Christen McCurdy
Of The Skanner News
t’s not news that smoking tobacco
has adverse effects on human health
— but new information about the
full scope of its effects is continuing
to surface.
Newspapers all over the country —
including The Skanner — have run ad-
vertisements in the last two months
detailing additional adverse effects of
smoking tobacco.
The major messages of the new ads
include:
• The adverse health effects of smok-
ing. Example of ad copy tobacco com-
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COURTESY PHOTO
See TOBACCO on page 3
Davon Fisher, 16
School Shootings,
One By One
The first of a two-part
series on the murders of
teenagers throughout
the U.S.
page 8
Rose Festival
Princesses
page 7
Thousands of people gathered in Seattle and nationwide March 24 to demand that more be done to address gun violence.
Living Cully Adopts Community Energy Plan
Neighborhood is launching a plan to bring clean energy to residents
By Melanie Sevcenko
For The Skanner News
hile the North-
east
Portland
neighborhood of
Cully was gear-
ing up to release its new
plan on tackling clean en-
ergy, disaster struck. On
March 12, a five-alarm fire
erupted at NW Metals,
an auto salvage yard near
Northeast 75th Avenue
and Killingsworth Street.
Thousands were ordered
to evacuate the area while
dark, billowing smoke pol-
luted the skies above. Ac-
cording to Portland Fire
and Rescue, close to 10 fam-
ilies lost their homes.
Within a week of the cri-
W
sis, the collective known
as Living Cully introduced
Living Cully Community
Energy Plan, a strategy
that — in the wake of the
scarp yard fire — under-
scores the need to bring
renewable energy to com-
munities often left out of
the green economy.
A collaborative effort be-
tween Habitat for Human-
ity, Hacienda Community
Development Corporation,
the
Native
American
Youth & Family Center and
Verde, Living Cully was
formed in 2010 to address
disparities in the neigh-
borhood by making envi-
ronmental investments to
boost outcomes in educa-
tion, income, housing and
health.
Often portrayed as an un-
desirable region of North-
east Portland, Cully is
characterized by its large
lots, unpaved roads, and
its highly diverse, major-
ity low-income residents.
According to Living Cully,
the neighborhood includes
one of the most racially and
ethnically diverse census
tracts in Oregon, with 13.4
percent of residents iden-
tifying as Black. It also suf-
fers from “poor walkabili-
ty, scarce access to transit,
relative lack of open space,
and an abundance of con-
taminated, post-industrial
land.”
It’s no surprise then that
these types of neighbor-
hoods get least priority
when companies and local
governments are looking
to invest in clean energy
and climate change poli-
cies. Meanwhile, people
with means living in dense
urban areas are the first to
reap the benefits of energy
incentives and efficiency
upgrades.
“The beneficiaries of
our current energy poli-
cies are primarily White,
middleclass or upper-in-
come individuals,” Jo Ann
Hardesty, president of the
NAACP Portland branch,
told The Skanner back in
July 2017. “Low-income
folks and communities of
See CULLY on page 3
Audits Find Racial Disparities in Gang Enforcement
Reports call on PPB to increase accountability and transparency
By The Skanner News Staff
wo audit reports released this
week by the City Auditor’s of-
fice call on the Portland Police
Bureau to show traffic stops are
effective in addressing gang violence
and to increase accountability and
transparency for the bureau’s Gang
Enforcement Team. It also found the
police bureau continues to collect
information about individuals’ gang
associations despite its discontinua-
tion and disavowal of a similar prac-
T
tice last fall.
An audit of the bureau’s
Gang Enforcement Patrol
found 59 percent of the Gang
Enforcement Team’s traffic
stops targeted African Amer-
icans.
“Because the Police Bureau
has not shown that these stops
are effective, the audit recom-
mends the Police Bureau an-
alyze and publish data about
Gang Enforcement stops,
See AUDITS on page 3
PHOTO: PORTLAND CITY AUDITOR’S OFFICE
Tobacco companies
forced by a 2006 federal
ruling to correct decades
of deceptive ads
PHOTO BY SUSAN FRIED
Ad Campaign
Corrects the
Record on
Tobacco Use
Two new audits say the Portland Police Bureau’s Gang
Enforcement Team hasn’t demonstrated the effectiveness
of traffic stops – and is still collecting information on
suspected gang members.