Podcast: Mingus Mapps on the Broadway Bike Lane Scandal
Mapps maintains he never signed-off on a specific plan and that his PBOT Director was merely starting a conversation.
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Mapps maintains he never signed-off on a specific plan and that his PBOT Director was merely starting a conversation.
Critics will be pleased. But will it be enough to satisfy them?
They say a public process will happen in a few months to decide on possible changes.
Mapps' claims don't stand up to scrutiny.
Since December, the council-approved group has met weekly to research and develop a stronger and more streamlined system of responding to complaints of misconduct against Portland Police Bureau (PPB) staff. The voter-mandated changes will revamp a currently very splintered system of reporting and discipline: Currently, complaints and cases against police might be handled by the city's Independent Police Review, the bureau's internal affairs unit, the Citizen Review Committee or the police review board. IPR is only able to observe investigations into deadly force cases, but is barred from direc...