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*** = Key stories
The Daily Kent Stater (2012)
January 2012: ‘Cope Court’ donor withdraws $1 million gift
*** February 2012: The courting of Cope: Behind the scenes of a $1 million withdrawal
April 2012: 90Ksu reached with help of department money
Deadspin.com (2012 - 2013)
*** February 2013: "I'm Down For Drinks, Laughs, Sex": The Sexual Harassment Claims That Brought Down Toledo's Running Coach
Cleveland Scene (2013 - 2015, 2023)
July 2013: The Never-Ending Pain of the Boy Scouts' 'Perversion Files'
September 2013: Worth More Dead Than Alive
October 2013: Inside the Biggest Heroin Bust in Northeast Ohio History
*** November 2013: Turmoil at the Museum: Inside the Affair, Suicide and Abrupt Resignation That Rocked the Cleveland Museum of Art
March 2015: A Traffic Ticket and a Bullet Through the Chest
*** July 2014: “Roofie Island: A Summer of Reported Druggings and Rapes on Put-in-Bay, Lake Erie's Party Destination
November 2014: Who Shot Chris Heben? The Strange Tale of a Former Navy SEAL and the Suburban Shopping Plaza Shooting that Never Happened
March 2015: Inside the Investigation that Brought Down a West Sixth Street Cocaine Dealer
*** February 2023: A Police Chief, a Florida Strip Club Mogul, a “Bribe” and the Grand Criminal Conspiracy That Didn’t Exist
Portland Mercury (2016 - 2018)
March 2016: A Portland Cop Deserves Discipline for Taunting A Local Activist, A Citizen Committee Says
May 2016: Portland Police Show Up Again to Oversight Meeting, Score Victory in Confusing Complaint Hearing
June 2016: Multnomah County Sheriff Finally Calls It Quits. Here's Why It Happened.
June 2016: Push to Block Oil Trains Heats Up with Arrest of 21 Activists Last Week
July 2016: Portland’s Police Reforms Are Headed Toward a Big Shake Up
July 2016: Auditor's Report: 416 Misconduct Complaints Filed Against the Portland Police Bureau in 2015
August 2016: Portland’s on the Verge of Major Police Oversight Reforms. Some Worry It Will Make Things Worse
August 2016: Short-Staffed Cops Are Being Forced to Trim Specialty Units to Adequately Patrol the City
August 2016: 60-Day "Recess" For Volunteer Board Overseeing Portland Police Changes
*** August 2016: A Black Teen Was Run Down in Gresham. His Killer Is in a Notorious Oregon White Supremacist Prison Gang
September 2016: New Hate Crime Indictment For The White Supremacist Charged In Black Teen's Murder in Gresham
September 2016: City Council Will Soon Vote on Changes to Portland’s Police Oversight System
October 2016: The Feds and State Are Targeting a “Suspicious” Portland Methadone Clinic
October 2016: After Stalemate, Portland Police Chief Changes Mind, Sides With Oversight Board In Discipline Case
November 2016: A Controversial Portland Cop Improperly Spied on Her Former Stepdaughter. That Should Have Been Grounds For Firing. It Wasn’t
November 2016: After Video of Rough Arrest During a Trump Protest, Portland's Independent Police Review to Investigate
December 2016: Multnomah County Was Supposed to Decrease Jail Spending. But It’s Pumping Half a Million Dollars into Keeping Prisoners Locked Up
December 2016: Portland’s 911 System Has a Gaping Flaw
January 2017: Police Blasted and Tear Gassed an Inauguration Day Protest
February 2017: Protests, Punches, and Arrests in Trump’s First Days
February 2017: A Busy, Bloody Thursday: Portland Saw the Year’s First Two Officer-Involved Shootings Last Week, and a Teenager is Dead
February 2017: A Crowd of Hundreds Marches to Demand Justice in Quanice Hayes Killing
February 2017: Roughed Up: Portland Police Arrest 13 in Crackdown of “Unpermitted” President’s Day Protest
March 2017: Police Watchdog Leader says Mayor Ted Wheeler Has Been Hard to Reach
March 2017: Gas, Grenades, and Pepper Spray: Portland Police’s Crowd Control Weapons Under Fire from Civil Rights Groups
March 2017: Quanice Hayes' Mom Criticizes Police, Prosecutors After Officer Who Killed Her son Isn't Indicted
April 2017: Police Chief Mike Marshman Back From Paid Leave, Cleared in Investigation
April 2017: We Tracked Portland’s 171 Protest-Related Arrests in the Trump Era
April 2017: 'A Significant Liability': Portland Police May Be Violating the Constitution
May 2017: The Pepsi Generation: A May Day “Riot” Breaks Out After Police Cancel Permit Mid-March
*** May 2017: Suspect in Portland Hate Crime Murders is a Known White Supremacist
June 2017: Multnomah County Republicans Formally Allow Militia Groups to Run Security
July 2017: Sheriff Warns of "County Jail Population Emergency" As Inmates Fill Reduced-Capacity Jails
July 2017: Transcripts Suggest 24-Year-Old Terrell Johnson Was In Crisis When He Was Killed May 10
August 2017: Mike Marshman Out, Oakland's Danielle Outlaw In as New Portland Police Chief
August 2017: Public Transit Racism Is Once Again in the Spotlight. Are Cops Doing Enough to Curb Bigoted Behavior?
September 2017: Two States, One Chaotic Day: As Donald Trump Jr. Trolls Portland Antifa, a Confederate Flag-Adorned Truck Nearly Plows Through Them
September 2017: Local Prosecutors Are About to Scrap Secretive Grand Juries
September 2017: Elevators at the Justice Center Were Screwed Up For Weeks. It Kept Defense Attorneys and Psychologists From Visiting
October 2017: Activists Attempt to Block a Bus at Portland's ICE Facility, Spurring Odd Arrests
October 2017: ICE Agents Are Starting to Text Immigrant Targets. They’re Also Continuing Constitution-Violating Arrests
November 2017: The Top Protest Cop Defends Rough Policing Tactics. But Complaints Keep Filing in and Lawsuits Loom
December 2017: A Portland Cop Was Fired For Sexual Assault Last Year. A Discipline Board Originally Cleared Them.
December 2017: Conditions Are “Inhumane” for Kids at a Jail in The Dalles, a New Report Says
December 2017: A Cop Lied to Get a Portland Activist to Stop Filming. The Police Bureau Says That’s Completely Fine