Portland, Oregon Police Chief Calls It Quits as the City Remains in Freefall
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Something the Portland Police Bureau did in 2021 has bothered me ever since.
Portlander Samuel Hambrick never learned to drive because he believed cars were too dangerous. "He was afraid he could hurt someone," his mother, Susan Hambrick told the Mercury. In September 2021, Samuel was walking along Highway 30 in Northwest Portland in the early morning when he was hit and killed by a person driving a car. The highway doesn’t have sidewalks or a large shoulder, so Samuel—a transit-dependent pedestrian—was walking on the side of the...
Public records show that REI and Mayor Ted Wheeler's office had been in communication for months ahead of the April announcement.