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The long-standing quasi-consent decree case about the Portland Police Bureau's pattern of excessive force against people with mental illness. DOJ tried using it as a wedge to get backdoor discovery about the City's ICE facility response and to punch at perceived Antifa boogeymen.

Sounds like the next Status Conference will be held on Thursday, January 21, 2027 at 9 am in Courtroom 15B. Can always check the docket on CourtListener. www.courtlistener.com/docket/43658...

Chief Deputy City Attorney Heidi Brown announces that Portland Street Response (PSR) hired a new Program Manager. bsky.app/profile/marc...

Citizen Review Committee (CRC) Chair Yume Delegato talking about the reality that the CBPA likely won't hear a case until 2027 and the CRC will need to stay operational until 2028 to hear cases that occur before the CBPA is operational.

Barbara from Portland Copwatch, while talking about the Erik Sherrer case, brought up the concerning use of military techniques in apartment buildings. bsky.app/profile/oreg...

Philip from Portland Copwatch adding support for the idea of an Inspector General for the new police oversight system.

Charlie brings up that the "bias" test for Community Board for Police Accountability (CBPA) members was only enforced against two members with alleged bias against police and not for any members with alleged bias for police.

Portland Copwatch member and Indigenous Matriarch Charlie Michelle-Westley speaking truth informed by her seven decades of lived experience. "We must be critical of a broken system."

Side note: PPB has not killed someone known to have mental illness in 173 days. bsky.app/profile/marc...

LWV referenced Seattle's Office of Inspector General, which "oversees the management, practices, and policies of the Seattle Police Department (SPD) and the Office of Police Accountability (OPA)." www.seattle.gov/inspector-ge...

League of Women Voters (LWV) highlights 2 issues brought up in their written testimony: 1. Create an Office of Inspector General for OCPA, as recommended by the Police Accountability Commission 2. Address Settlement Agreement ambiguities due to the slow rollout of the new accountability system

Would be fantastic for more Portlanders to tune in to PCCEP meetings. Next one is scheduled for August 5, 2026 at 6 pm. www.portland.gov/pccep/events

Portland Committee on Community Engaged Policing (PCCEP) bringing up the idea of an independent Inspector General to oversee the police accountability system in Portland that will [hopefully] be operational within the next year or so.

From Vera Institute of Justice - Everything You Need to Know about Consent Decrees. www.vera.org/news/everyth...

Judge Simon points out that Seattle had a Consent Decree, while Portland has a Settlement Agreement. Consent Decrees are far more common than Settlement Agreements when it comes to attempting to reign in unaccountable law enforcement agencies.

Grateful to the MHA for bringing up Damon Lamarr Johnson's avoidable killing by the Portland Police Bureau. bsky.app/profile/marc...

"The City should not be permitted to create underspending through delay and then cite that underspending as a reason to remove the resources." - Mental Health Alliance

Mental Health Alliance bringing up the multiple attempts by Portland City Council to raid the Office of Community-based Police Accountability (OCPA) budget.

Rev. Dr. Haynes and Pastor Knutson both bringing up Portland Street Response (PSR) and its important role in reducing the opportunity for armed officers to harm people with perceived or actual mental illness.

Rev. Dr. Haynes brings up that, although the DOJ (somehow) did not conclude that PPB was using excessive force on people of color when the Settlement Agreement started, two-thirds of the cases the DOJ looked at referenced race as well as mental illness.