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By PETER KORN
The Tribune
With increasing attention focused on
Portland police in recent weeks, a
number of local and national experts
on police interactions with the mental-
ly ill tell the Tribune that Portland’s
model for de-escalating tensions be-
tween the police and people with men-
tal illness is off track.
The Police Bureau’s Crisis Intervention
Team (CIT) program, they say, is training
the wrong officers at the wrong time, and
has forgotten the principles that its
founders borrowed from other successful
programs.
These comments are especially signifi-
cant because Portland police have shot
eight people since the start of 2010
(including two shootings already in 2011),
and as many as seven of the eight victims
were likely suffering from mental illness
or addiction.
Those numbers represent a huge jump
from previous years, and relative to what
most other West Coast cities are experi-
encing. A 2010 San Francisco Police De-
partment study, for instance, found police
there had shot 15 people during a five-year
period. Five of those people had mental
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Recent
shootings
involving
mentally ill
raise questions
about program
See POLICE / Page 2
Portland
Tribune
Illegal
signs
abound
in city
By PETER KORN
The Tribune
Portland’s been getting
plastered the past two years
— illegally — and hardly any-
body has noticed. Until now.
A year and a half ago, city
budget cuts led to the city’s
Bureau of Development Ser-
vices laying off its sign-enforce-
ment staff. In
response, city
officials
say,
some of the
people
wh
Wall paintings are
targeted as Leonard
vows enforcement
DUCKS: ‘WE’LL BE BACK’
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Experts: Police training flawed
Portland police shootings
YEAR
SHOOTINGS
SHOOTING DEATHS
2010
6
5
2009
1
1
2008
2
2
2007
2
1
2006
5
3
2005
9
5
Total
25
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