Month: February 2022

Independent Review of Portland Police Culture

The City’s framing of the review, which ultimately resulted in this Report, was as follows:

Community Perception of Racial Bias: Are PPB’s policies, culture, actions, or outcomes driven by racial bias? If so, what is the extent of any racial bias, what are the root causes of any racial bias, and what are the best practices to addresses those root causes?

Community Perception of Political Bias: Are PPB’s policies, culture, actions, or outcomes driven by political bias? If so, what is the extent of any political bias, what are the root causes of any political bias, and what are the best practices to address those root causes?

Community Perception that PPB is Resistant to Change: Are PPB’s policies, culture, actions, or outcomes resistant to change sought by the community? If so, what is the extent of this resistance, what are the root causes of this resistance, and what are the best practices to address that resistance?www.oirgroup.com/_files/ugd/c0d762_16aaa9fa1dfa4b0b87a74352fe5d520c.pdf

POLICING 2020: Local news reporting during a year of racial justice protests

This is supposed to be a report about the change of how news reporting represents the police but all this report is really about is how 3 liberal newspapers editorialize about the police.

Think about it – newspapers really just report how they want on any topic so it’s not that they are capturing the sentiment of a community – no they are editorializing on the message they want to report. So an analysis of the newspaper’s message is just a measurement of what the editors are saying.

This analysis says NOTHING about how the community feels about law enforcement or criminals. It says more about how the editors for the newspaper feel about police and criminals.

www.asc.upenn.edu/sites/default/files/2022-01/Policing2020_MICReport.pdf