News The race to lead Portland took shape Monday, with newly filed campaign reports showing the frontrunner, City Commissioner Jim Francesconi, boosting his total contributions above $850,000, five times a ... More
As the Dough Flows
News The race to lead Portland took shape Monday, with newly filed campaign reports showing the frontrunner, City Commissioner Jim Francesconi, boosting his total contributions above $850,000, five times a ... More
Questions Follow Latest Shooting
News To many observers, including some longtime cops, the police killing of 28-year-old James Jahar Perez last Sunday looked more troubling on its face than the controversial death of Kendra James last yea ... More
Room with a Point of View
Commissioner Jim Francesconi dials for dollars from a lobbyist's office.
News In less than two weeks, City Commissioner Jim Francesconi will officially shatter the Portland record for political fundraising in a city campaign--and he will have done so with some key help from a v ... More
The $25 Candidate
Tom Potter thinks he can be elected mayor without selling out. Is he crazy?
News Last fall, Chuck Duffy walked outside his Northwest Portland home and found an envelope in his mailbox. It bore an invitation to an evening of cocktails and hors d'oeuvres at the posh Multnomah Athlet ... More
The Cop Who Would Be Mayor
Former Police Chief Tom Potter says good policing needs blue blood at City Hall.
News Tom Potter stops midway through the interview to make one thing perfectly clear: He's running for mayor, not chief of police. Yet, with the May primary approaching and the Portland Police Bureau still ... More
Shocking Differences
Portland to study how other cities prevent their cops from abusing tasers.
News The Portland Police Bureau will submit a report within the next two weeks to Mayor Vera Katz comparing its policy on tasers--stun guns that fire darts with a 21-foot range--with rules used in other ci ... More
TASING "Hell"
News In December 2002, while responding to a 911 call about a knife-wielding woman, officers found a 71-year-old man restraining her. The knife lay out in the open, so Officer Leo Besner drew his taser and ... More
The Cop Who Liked Nazis
Portland police officer gets new scrutiny.
News New allegations about a city police officer raises a dicey question at City Hall: How do you deal with a cop who, at the very least, has a thing for swastikas?The activities of Sgt. Mark Kruger, a pro ... More
Is the Portland Police Bureau going TASER CRAZY?
News Officer Bill Ollenbrook's police radio crackled with what sounded like life or death as he entered a low-income downtown apartment building last May. Details were sketchy, but according to the dispatc ... More
Blunt Orders
Officer Joe Welp gets hammered from both sides after dropping in at a recent medical-pot rally.
News Oregon's medical-marijuana law has always posed problems for police officers, creating a small group of people who can legally use illegal drugs. Which is why after being assigned to monitor the Orego ... More
Top Articles from Nick Budnick
Leif's Auto Body Experience
Under the hood of a Portland collision-repair business. The Murder that WOULD NOT DIE
Columnist Phil Stanford is obsessed with a decade-old conspiracy theory. What if he's right? "Dirty old [money] man"
GOP bankroller Loren Parks hit with sexual-harassment charges. True Lies?
Polygraph expert questions Francke investigation tactics. Randy Richardson was a hotshot criminal- defense lawyer. Now he needs one.
Good Cop, Bad Cop
The city wants to rein in officers like Lt. Todd Wyatt. The Rapper and His Rapsheet
Keary Watson says he's shaken his tawdry past. Portland cops sure hope so. SNITCH-SLAPPED
How a Serbian con artist scammed Portland's Russian "godfather" and the FBI. Kindred Killing
Police are investigating the murder of a black man as a potential hate crime. Swimming with Sharks
How a brutal drug trafficker convinced local prosecutors that someone else murdered Vincent Pawloski and Jodie Schneider.
Under the hood of a Portland collision-repair business. The Murder that WOULD NOT DIE
Columnist Phil Stanford is obsessed with a decade-old conspiracy theory. What if he's right? "Dirty old [money] man"
GOP bankroller Loren Parks hit with sexual-harassment charges. True Lies?
Polygraph expert questions Francke investigation tactics. Randy Richardson was a hotshot criminal- defense lawyer. Now he needs one.
Good Cop, Bad Cop
The city wants to rein in officers like Lt. Todd Wyatt. The Rapper and His Rapsheet
Keary Watson says he's shaken his tawdry past. Portland cops sure hope so. SNITCH-SLAPPED
How a Serbian con artist scammed Portland's Russian "godfather" and the FBI. Kindred Killing
Police are investigating the murder of a black man as a potential hate crime. Swimming with Sharks
How a brutal drug trafficker convinced local prosecutors that someone else murdered Vincent Pawloski and Jodie Schneider.
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